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>Dilseacht (Loyalty) > > >Mick Hall • 29 December 2006 > >It is often demanded of the Republican dissidents that >they produce a fully drafted political program, and >that they put this before the nationalist electorate. >Of course, the Shinners jest when they make such >demands, for they are well aware that those they so >contemptuously term "dissidents" are firmly within the >Irish Republicanism tradition, whilst they themselves >teeter on its brink these days. Otherwise, why would >they spend so much energy attempting to discredit the >Dissidents? After all, they have few local >councillors; and no TDs, MPs or MLAs. No matter, for >the Shinners understand clearly from their own >history, it's the potential of any group that poses >the threat. The more so if it represents an idea >seeped in history whose day may well come again, given >a slight change in the current situation, or if it >opposes a seedy republican organization which is well >past its sell by date. > >Those who follow Ruairi O'Bradaigh are set in the most >traditional of Republican moulds and with RSF have a >full political platform which includes abstention form >the Dail and Northern Assembly. Indeed it is a program >Gerry Adams is extremely familiar with, as he spent >years trooping around Ireland calling on young >volunteers to go to war under its banner. > >Thus Mr Adams, of all people, understands what a >potent brew O'Bradaigh's program can be to young >patriotic minds, and he must be conscious of the fact >that if his younger SF members were to study RSF Éire >Nua, it might make them question who the actual >dissident is when it comes to Mr Adams and Ruairi >O'Bradaigh. > >O'Bradaigh sticks rigidly to the terms of the oath he >swore to the Irish Republic as a young volunteer, >which is after all the whole purpose of swearing an >oath of allegiance. Gerry Adams flip-flops all over >the place, having long ago carelessly tossed his own >oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic, along with >his honor, into the dustbin of history, whilst >demanding of his membership that they abide by their >loyalty — not to the Republic, but its mockney >President, Gerry Adams. > >Adams proclaims to his northern party membership that >all has changed, changed utterly, and Republicans must >recognize the State they live in and its institutions, >including, it now seems, the PSNI or to use its former >name, the RUC. > >O'Bradaigh see little real political change of the >sort he has spent his life fighting for, simple yet >more political maneuvers and shenanigans by Perfidious >Albion, designed to pull the teeth of the Republican >Movement and confuse and disorientate Irish patriots. >O'Bradaigh notes the butchers-apron still flies above >the institutions of the State-let within the north >east of Ireland, and at their master's whim the >British army and the PSNI still patrol the streets and >hamlets of a part of nationalist Ireland. > >Loyalist bigots, the heirs of those who have tormented >the nationalist working classes since the northern >state-let's inception, still block the way to full >democracy, refusing to sit as equals with Adams' >republicans in the gerrymandered State-let's Stormont >Assembly, whilst demanding that it is Irish >republicans and the communities from whence they come >who must compromise and bend the knee, as if they were >the guilty party and the obscenity that was Northern >Ireland between 1922-69 never existed. > >Adams exclaims it might seem so, but all that is >needed is trust in the British and all will be well, >for they have no selfish intent or strategic interest, >for that is all in the past. Tell that to the Iraqi >people, one might howl back in fury as Adams demands >of his party just one more compromise, although of >course he uses the Neo-conservative/New-Labour >doublespeak to cover the fact that he is asking of his >'republican family' that they become Quislings, >without a thought to the fact that if compromise was >the road to take, Ireland would have been free long >ago. Stoops and chuckies of all types have always >cried compromise, trust the British State whilst they >themselves lived high on the hog, leaving it for the >Irish working classes to pick up the tab for such >crass stupidity. > >It might seem a tough choice, the bearded one cries, >but once it is done we will all feel better and we can >get on with the rest of our lives, as if he were a >branch-man advising his prisoner to admit their >offense, get it off their chest and they will feel >much better. (Even though it will mean they serve a >forty year stretch.)

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