Gandhi said that injustice must be made visible.
Justice exists where people have become adjusted to one another, so how can the British Government, consisting of millionaires and multi-millionaires and which by force of arms and against all the rules of democracy imposes its violent will on a small section of the island of Ireland, become adjusted to down-trodden, abused and captive people who are viciously prevented from protecting their moral, legal and human rights even in a Court of so-called English Law?.
The British Government's occupation and control of the North-eastern corner of Ireland is a wrong that is crying out for rectification.
At this time, Spring 2011, when the ruler of Libya is trying to fool the international community by stating that his rule represents 'direct democracy', the British Government is still trying at the same time to fool the same international community into accepting that it is pursuing a 'peace process' here in Northern Ireland. Both these examples of political trickery fall far short of what is universally acceptable as government of the people, by the people and for the people.
As the British Prime Minister actually prepares his fighting troops to interfere unilaterally in yet another country having just led representatives of British arms manufacturers on a Middle-eastern campaign to sell weaponry to that already over-armed area whilst leaving his own country leaderless, the people of Northern Ireland are left in fear of their economic well-being caused by his government callously, recklessly and undemocratically permitting the banking barons to take control of all financial matters in this UK against the wishes and well-being of the population of this UK. In practice, money, and when it suits the barons now in control of our 'government', the lack of money, is being used to control practically every area of human existence in this UK, so-called, and this is happening because the banking barons, and not the people's government, are being allowed to dictate how little money the ordinary people are to get to exist on, after the barons have sucked all they can out of our incomes, either through its tax-raising puppet our Government has now become or by blackmailing its puppet-Government to fill their feigned 'black holes' with billions of pounds of hard-working peoples' own money.
Even us old-age pensioners must pay value-added tax (VAT) at 20% such is the chronic greed of the banking barons who refuse to allow our elected government to make us an exception even if our powerless administration desired this little bit of common justice.
This means, in practice, that the people of Northern Ireland are being forced to contribute to wars and potential war zones and interference in the affairs of nations around the world, among other things, declared by a regime which has created havoc and chaos on the island of Ireland for centuries. We are being forced to contribute to the very existence of the means of our captivity. We are even being forced to contribute to the cover-up of all this continuing chaos by acting out a flawed and deceptive "peace process" just to allow for the continuation of our chronic captivity and all the while the media are promoting this evil as a just process. Such madness.
Two law-abiding families within Northern Ireland have challenged the insane greed which beleaguers our suffering society, one, my own Catholic family in Co. Down and, two, the Protestant Andrews family in Belfast. Here are two classic examples of the vile torture imposed on the people of Northern Ireland by our British bullies. Government is judged by the manner in which it treats its most vulnerable citizens - people with disabilities. Here are two stories of the evil, the corruption, the maladministraton and the depths of depravity to which the degradation of the system of British democratic justice has collapsed within Northern Ireland, and the British Government and all its paid administrators in Northern Ireland, local politicians, lawyers and even clergy stand idly by and pretend that we have a "Peace Process" here. Such utter madness.
Protestant and Catholic, we both receive the same savage treatment. My question is:
"How can any right-thinking Protestant or right-thinking Catholic who is aware of the facts in the above links even consider voting for any of the five main political parties in the Assembly and Council elections this coming May 2011 here in Northern Ireland when all these political parties have stood idly by, during even these few years since the last Assembly and Council elections, and by their silence have assisted in extending the cover-up of these two shocking affairs, a cover-up which has now lasted for a period approaching four decades in each case and which has the 'blessing' of the British Government?"
The British Government is only using and abusing the people of Northern Ireland and laughing at our naiveté while our political 'representatives' are being assiduously rewarded by their banking-baron masters for their part in that abuse.
Gerry Rice.