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What
is happening on our beloved island? What is the status
of the GFA, the elections, the assembly, the RIR,
the policing reforms - in short, what the hell is
going on? Of some interest is the editorial in 30
May issue of the Derry Journal, "Dublin's Deafening
Silence". Indeed, the Dublin assembly has already
dazzled us with their dissection of the Constitution,
and their slavish devotion to whatever issues from
Mr Blair's office. Now, with Mr Blair's unilateral
decision to postpone (read cancel) the elections,
or any other action that the GFA was supposed to bring
about, what exactly is there to talk about? One could
hardly be faulted to think that, for Mr Blair and
his gang, GFA means "Get F****d A**holes!"
(and my apologies to the ladies and children reading
this).
Now we have the ever charming "Reverend"
Paisley wagging his venomous tongue, the UUP fighting
like wee boys over who can hamstring the "agreement"
better, and SF and SDLP engaging in pointless and
powerless posturing. Everyone is setting conditions,
with the amazing similarity that each group's conditions
run exactly counter to the others. Democracy indeed!
Let no one claim that anyone else is better at engineering
failure.
My question (well the next one), is this, "Who
speaks for the Irish Republic?", "Who is
defending the Irish Republic?", "Who will
fight for the Irish Republic?" Does anyone know?
Surely, I would like to know, so I can figure out
what is going on, besides the usual petty wrangling,
posturing, threats and invective. "Talk",
as a man once said, "is cheap". Actions
speak volumes, and load enough to shake the foundations
of those ivory towers into which the "leaders"
have installed themselves. Let the action commence!
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