‘Murderers, Parasites and Lackeys’ – MacCoitir
By Pádraic MacCoitir
Politics can be a dirty game and I would argue those who play dirtiest are those who hold others in contempt.
For centuries the dirtiest of the lot has been the British, not only here in Ireland but throughout their stinking empire, where they massacred millions. Millions more died of starvation, most notably here in Ireland during An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger).
Over those centuries there have been numerous attempts to rid those murderers and rapists from our land but unfortunately they still have a foothold in all 32 counties. They have been ably assisted by lackeys who crawl to them at every opportunity but thankfully there are many of us who still oppose the occupation of an army, police force and other institutions that have a stranglehold here in this putrid little statelet.
The recent death of Philip, husband to arch-parasite Elizabeth Windsor, saw the usual suspects send out cringeworthy and crawling condolences to the rest of his parasitical family. Those first out of the trap were Sinn Féin leaders McDonald and O’Neill, quickly followed by Maskey, all of which comes as no surprise to Irish Socialists and Republicans.
They are not stupid people – It is quite clear that the language chosen in their public statements, specifically, ‘Queen’ Elizabeth and ‘Prince’ Phillip was very deliberately chosen as they continue to march their formerly revolutionary organisation toward the centre ground and the state strategy of normalisation.
More damningly from Mr Maskey, who said, “I am very sorry to learn of the passing of The Duke of Edinburgh…I express my sympathy to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth…”
Every Irish Republican leader from Tone to Lalor to Connolly to Pearse to O’Donnell and Sands wrote extensively about the negative impact the English parasites have had on our country.
As a Republican, James Connolly realised the anti-democratic effects of a monarchy on society:
“Believing as we do that there is nothing on earth more sacred than humanity, we deny all allegiance to this institution of royalty, and hence we can only regard the visit of the King as adding fresh fuel to the fire of hatred with which we regard the plundering institutions of which he is the representative. Let the capitalist and landlord class flock to exalt him; he is theirs; in him they see embodied the idea of caste and class; they glorify him and exalt his importance that they might familiarise the public mind with the conception of political inequality, knowing well that a people mentally poisoned by the adulation of royalty can never attain to that spirit of self-reliant democracy necessary for the attainment of social freedom. The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kings – capitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships and the docks.” – James Connolly, 1910
