Ireland mobilises for anti-War action this weekend.

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday December 06, 2002 22:37 by rt hon. J. tweedle dumb humm - reclaim the streets! us at our dot net the usual historically resonant place. anyone and tell them how you feel

using a wide variety of mobilisation tactics activists and passives will interact for the next 48hrs

Some thoughts which really aren´t news, but more of the discussion sort of thing.

I have before assumed the Mr O´as-if
for Galizia
so
now I´ll go easy on the Blue Block and Unison (1913) the little rascals and RTE.
I warned ye all in a nodal text for the last Reclaim the Streets event.
So this message is about War.

the War.

call it WW3 or WW4 or whatever.
it seems sort of happening ¿No?

We in Ireland have a lovely little constitution which commits us to neutrality.
We love it.

and we´re going to keep it that way.

in fact we´re going to make it mean something.

Ireland.

Éire

with her children all over the globe.
good boys and girls
bad boys and girls
Irish every one.

We don´t like the idea of the world going into global conflict.
Stuff like attacks all over the place, threats of weapons of mass destruction, and the use of icons of Western Civilisation is a bit stomach churning.

We wonder at our Paradise of Western Civilisation this anglo-american spoken world which embraced Europe both as ancestors and internalised cultures.

WE wonder at our prestige in this new world that we face, this new Ireland at the beginning of the 21st century, land of technology, scientific genius and so so different from the past, from the poverty of the 60s the 70s the 80s.

so different?

We wonder at our peace.

Since well last year to be frank.
& I intend to be frank.
The world has felt less peace than ever before.
Every peace process has "stalled".
We used to Irish people have a U.N. comissioner did we not? Whatever we think or thought of her do her final words and thoughts on the futility of her position ring home now?

We are and always have been a travelling people.

and long may we be.

and we don´t want this War.

apended a letter I sent to the Irish Times last year.
My return to your cyber space.
my apologies!

From: "iosaf mac diarmada"

Sent: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:00:43 +0200
To: lettersed@irish-times.ie

Subject: usa bombs

Dear Sir,

I wonder did any other readers find it ironic that yesterday the
Western Alliance held their annual Arms fair in London. This event
attended by arms dealers and buyers from around the world was
seriously disrupted by the attacks on both the US defence offices at
the Pentagon and the stockbrokers in the towers.
Perhaps one might qoute a New Yorker, Lou Reed; "you will reep
what
you sow".

yours etc
Mac diarmada Iosaf

and the following;

From: "iosaf mac diarmada"

Sent: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:59:40 +0200
To: lettersed@irish-times.ie

Subject: keith from dalkey - american terrorist event

Mo chara,

Dear Sir / Madam,

Keith from Dalkey wonders on the letters page of Sept.22 if he is
neither for America nor the terrorists where is he left. šMight he be
one of the few Irish left who appreciate our shiboleeth of neutrality?
I thank you for not publishing my last letter concerning the
terrorist
event of Sept 11, qouting Lou Reed, himself quoting scripture,
"you
shall reap what you sow" it might have proved offensive to many,
I
recall I had drawn attention to the disruption caused to the
armsdealers fair held that day in London by the attack on the
Pentagon
and stockbrokers of the World Trade Centre. Poorly conceived thoughts
on my part? But as I write the Spanish airforce mobilise in the skies
above, Sr. Aznar like all other leaders of the western alliance
promises unswerving loyalty to a minority elected presidency, one now
empowered by an Enabling Act, The Irish Premier proffers our air
bases, the North American administration itself expelled from the
Human Rights Council lectures us all on ethics, perhaps I might this
time quote Sallust writing in similar times of instability and
intrigue:

"non exercitus neque thesauri, praesidia regni sunt, verum
amici?"

I am minded also to point out that only the intelligence services
themselves know how many times our civilisation and our cities have
come close to biological or chemical attack. One broken bottle of
anthrax and one skyscraper would always prove an apocalyptic
combination, no?
I have broken my usual personal habits by writing to an advertising
maintained broadsheet, but one I remember from my youth as being
thoughtful in its reporting and capable of respecting the many
traditions that make up the Irish multi-jurisdiction states. I have
though in this very serious week for "our civilsation"
contributed in
six languages to many quality newspapers, harping on about the duty
of
Neutrality.

As an "anti-globalist" underground writer (I am against
unbridled
avarice and greed and oligarchy, which makes me strangely "a
democracy
protester") I have seen "our civilisation" besmirched
more šthan is
acceptable this last year. I have seen death and starvation unleashed
on the poor and social movements criminalised, I have witnessed
unelected Global institutions move their meetings from cities to
cyber
space, even further from scrutiny.

It is your duty as Irish Times journalists to offer impartial
reporting on this phase of NEW WORLD ORDER. I remind you as I have
reminded your counterparts of Sweden and Austria.
If not you are complicit.

I doubt you´ll publish this letter either, but it is intended more
for
conversation in D´Ollier street. I have been bemused and intrigued to
see so many miss the point completely in these last weeks, I thought
as much when the local US consulate told me by telephone there would
be no book of condolences. They photographed the local Catalan
Premier
signing the book the other day.

These are dark days.

So I´ll finish by mangling Neumayer:
When they came for Islam I said nothing I wasn´t a muslim.
When they came for the squatters I said nothing I paid my mortgage.
When they came for the anti-globalists I said nothing I watched TV.
When they came for all the un-americans I...?

I Sir, remain your most obedient servant,

Is

mac diarmada iosaf

Ireland please say
PEACE
we can not afford to lose our world.
and this appears top be a global conflagoration.
WW3 or WW4.
stay neutral and say PEACE.