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Good Guy Eamo™ reppin' the Repeal the 8th movement at the election count in Derry.

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It has been said – and it is a fact – that these 11 men were the lowest of the low . . . But that cannot be relevant to the acceptance of responsibility for their deaths . . . In general, I would say that it is a fearful doctrine, which must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it, to stand in judgment on a fellow human being and to say, ‘Because he was such-and-such, therefore the consequences which would otherwise flow from his death shall not flow’.

Enoch Powell, parliamentary speech by Conservative (later Ulster Unionist) MP Enoch Powell pleading in 1959 for the truth to be told about the torture and murder by British forces of 11 suspected “terrorists” detained without trial in Kenya (Here: http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamonn-mccann-britain-deliberately-refuses-to-deal-with-the-past-in-the-north-1.2503986)

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I can tell Eamon McCann one thing: partitioned or united, Ireland will become an Islamic republic before it becomes a socialist republic.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/irelandandtheleft

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One learned quite literally at one’s mother’s knee, that Jesus had died for the human race and Patrick Pearse for the Irish section of it.

Eamon McCann (Here: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIrishStory/~3/s4gD5jivLN4/)

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My letter to the News Letter [October 26 2015]

Dear Sir, Eamonn Mallie has to be congratulated for his interview series 'Eamonn Mallie Meets' on Irish TV. His most recent interview with veteran activist Eamonn McCann (October 25 2015, Irish TV, Sky 191) was not only fantastically entertaining but a hugely important contribution to the developing historical narrative of the Troubles. History is the present because it is the people alive who write it. I wrote in a letter to this paper that a glaringly false history is being spun by the leaders of the republican moment. Contrary to what McGuinness and others say, they did not pursue reforms and civil rights; the one aim of their campaign of destruction was British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. I'm a twenty something from South Belfast. I may not have lived through the 1960s to the 1990s but I know McGuinness and Sinn Fein are wrong because I can read history books and primary sources. In case anyone remains unconvinced of my argument due to my relative youth please cross reference my points with Eamonn McCann on Irish TV. I made two principle assertions. Firstly, the main civil rights demands were enacted in the early 1970s, decades before the IRA ended it's homicide campaign. Eamonn McCann said in his interview with Eamonn Mallie: "The reforms which emerged allegedly from the armed struggle were in place in the early 1970s, the main civil rights demands." I secondly asserted that not only did Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and the PIRA not fight for civil rights, they actively opposed and ridiculed those who campaigned for equality. Eamonn McCann said to Mallie: "[The peaceful civil rights campaign] was denounced by the advocates of armed struggle… Now they have settled for the same thing after 25 years…" McCann added: "I can remember over and over again in Derry and the Bogside and Creggan IRA leaders saying we’re going to continue the armed struggle." Eamonn McCann explained that those who wanted compromise were castigated as "traitors" and "quislings". The republican movement presents itself today as eminently enlightened and progressive and ridicules unionists and protestants as innately backward and small-minded. This is a fiction story just as their tale of the Troubles is. Republicans have shown themselves as undemocratic, authoritarian and bullying and that story needs to be told. Yours, Brian John Spencer