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Fred Johnston attacks Provos
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Wednesday May 31, 2006 00:24 by TomTom
Letter in Galway Advertiser Conservatism suits a sort of republicanism |
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.Is Fred unaware of the fact that British forces are occupying both Iraq and Afghanistan? (Not to mention part of Ireland.) Mother Ireland you are still rearing them.
Its possible that some Irishmen were proud to be part of a criminal imperial army who murdered, raped and pillaged their way all around the earth, who took away the freedom of millions and gunned down anyone brave enough to oppose them. Its possibile, but I dont think we are under any obligation to remember these men with any pride. Many Irishmen who joined the British army werent very proud of their actions at all. Many later used the lethal training they recieved to assist in resistance to Imperialism. As for the rest, the poor helpless cannon fodder - we should remember them as victims of British Imperialism.
Sirs - Never have I seen an article more improperly, or indeed falsely, headed. I don't know who Tom Tom is, but clearly he's the sort of lad who doesn't even bother reading an article before throwing a heading on to it; Galway is full of such. I am not a Provo follower, but my letter is not about that issue, as anyone with a modicum of observational faculties would understand. But perhaps Tom Tom is not interested in the truth. What I am concerned with in the letter is the wiping-out of all memory of how Irishmen fought in the Great War and the Second War and, God knows, many times before either of them, and continue to do so and are no less Irishmen for all that. If this concept, of course, is too much for Tom Tom to envisage, well . . . . .
Fred Johnston.
I really find this incredible. Does Johnston not know that the British NEVER fought a war for 'the freedom of small nations'. At the time of the 1914-18 war the British continued to oppress small and big nations across the world from Ireland to Kenya to India. Fred Johnston's argument is silly, a kind of pseudo-left unionism.
Anyway the only problem with those who blew up Nelson's Piller is that they left a lot of other colonial eye sores still standing around the country.