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The Treaty of Nice
Proclamation
THE IRISH PROVINCIAL
GOVERNMENT OF THE US-EUROPEAN EMPIRE TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND
Irishmen and Irishwomen: in the name of God and of the dead
generations, from which Ireland used to summon her old tradition
of internationalism, I, on behalf of the faceless bureaucrats
of Europe and North America, summon your children to their
flag and strike against the freedom of others.
Having organised and trained your manhood through our secret
organisation, the Partnership for Peace, and through our
open military organisations, NATO and the European Rapid
Reaction Force; having patiently perfected our deception;
having resolutely avoided revealing ourselves; we now seize
the moment, and supported by corporate America and by the
rich and powerful of Europe, but relying in the first on
your own weakness, we strike in full confidence of a Yes
vote.
We declare the right of the US-European Empire to the ownership
of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies,
to be sovereign and indefeasible. Standing on that fundamental
right and asserting it in arms in the face of the developing
world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a fully-owned
subsidiary of the US-European Empire, and we pledge everyone
else's lives and the dividends of our trades in arms to
the cause of the Empire, and the exploitation of poorer
nations.
The Empire is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance
of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Empire guarantees
strictly limited religious and civil liberty, unequal rights
and unequal opportunities to some of its citizens, and declares
its resolve to pursue the prosperity of the Empire oblivious
of the differences carefully fostered by five hundred years
of colonialism, which have divided the rich minority from
the poor global majority in the past.
Until arms deals have brought the opportune moment for the
establishment of a permanent US-European Empire, I, the
Provincial Governor hereby constituted, will administer
the civil and military affairs of Ireland in trust for the
Empire.
In this supreme hour of the Nice Treaty referendum the Irish
nation must, by its gullible servility, and by the presumed
readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves and others
for the good of NATO, the European Army and the International
Arms trade prove itself worthy of the slavish destiny to
which it is lured.
Actor Donal O'Kelly reading out the "new proclamation"
outside the GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin.
Courtesy of the Irish Times. |
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From the Irish Times April 2001
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