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Thanks. Yes, it is a deep irony that the British state’s historical ties with Northern Ireland are presently the only legal barrier to a full reversal of 300 years battle to win hardwon egalitarian human rights.

The British have no written constitution and have upheld their democracy (in their home counties: never in their economic or geographic colonies) through a unassailable network of a ruling upper class that, before Thatcher’s neo liberal revolution, adhered to an unwritten Good Chaps code of conduct. That is long gone.

This present cartel have already begun buying up vast tracts of land to turn them in Charter Cities given over to private corporate rule, an experiment they most recently tried in Costa Rica. They have overturned the right to protest and brought in laws that allow agents of the state full amnesty to rape and murder their citizens without recourse to a court order. Most individuals are seemingly unaware or caught like rabbits in headlights. It’s grim.

Of course, casual cruel and violent abuse of citizens by untouchable state agents remains an everyday reality here in Northern Ireland. This makes folk here both more war hardened and harder to read. Which in the face of these ‘burn all rule of law save Ours and Our chosen Tyrant’ mobsters onslaught is proving protective.🐈‍⬛

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