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Airstrip One
by Emmanuel Goldstein
Antiwar.com
January 26, 2000
You can keep your legacy, Mr. Clinton
Will the history books record Ulster?
AS MAD AS HELL
I have written about this before, and I am sure I will write about it again,
but the betrayal of Ulster must stop. It is time to say that the decent, law-
abiding men and women of Northern Ireland were shamelessly lied to by their
Prime Minister and by the President of America. It may seem insignificant now,
but it goes to the heart of the hypocrisy and deceit that is at the heart of
our governing elite.
A WORTHLESS LEGACY
I was spurred to revisit this subject by reading about Mr. Clinton’s woes. He
was worried, the article claimed, that he would have no legacy for the history
books, and so he was concentrating on bringing "peace" to the people of the
Middle East and Northern Ireland. As an Englishman and a subject of Her Majesty
the Queen, I have no feeling on the Middle East aside from a natural affinity
with Israel, and a gut feeling that the peace process will end in tears.
Northern Ireland is different; I know its people and love its land. If the
price of Mr. Clinton’s legacy is to betray these people to terrorists, then I
wish him ill.
UNKNOWN SURRENDER
The "debate" on Northern Ireland has moved on since my last piece on the
subject. The main change has been one of personnel. The far too honest pro-
terrorist Mo Mowlem has been replaced by a homosexual ex-communist (I am not
kidding, follow this link), Peter Mandelson. Mr. Mandelson has been wooing the
Unionists with honeyed words, and then betraying them. He was instrumental in
awarding the George Cross, one of the highest British decorations, to the Royal
Ulster Constabulary. While they undoubtedly deserve this for their brave work,
this was not Mandelson’s motive. Mr. Mandelson’s interest was to persuade the
Unionists to trust him, and too many did. It was then that he betrayed them by
disbanding the best defence against the IRA.
DON’T TURN YOUR BACK
Mr. Mandelson is a man of whom a number of columns will be written of in the
future. For a start he wants to be Foreign Secretary: he has made this clear
since New Labour took office, and with his career now on track again he is
supposedly studying for his intended brief. You will be hearing a lot more of
Mr. Mandelson. Secondly, he is one of the most openly internationalist
politicians around. After a flirtation with Communism in his youth Mandelson
got in with the Atlantic Council, an internationalist grouping that had close
connections with the CIA. He was also vice president of the openly federalist
European Movement after he entered Parliament. The third reason why he is so
interesting is that he is pivotal in the whole New Labour project. He has been
a confidant of Blair for years; they were friends before Blair entered
Parliament. Despite the loathing for him in the party, he is rooted in its
structures. His grandfather was the Labour minister Herbert Morrison, and he
was active in the far-left National Union of Students. He worked full time for
the Trade Union Congress (the British AFL-CIO) and the Labour Party. Finally,
Mr. Mandelson is breathtakingly corrupt, personally, financially and
politically. The man is dangerous precisely because his relationship with
morality is so tenuous. Unfortunately he wants to replace the inept Robin Cook
as Foreign Secretary, so you will have to get used to his dishonest tones.
TERMS OF SURRENDER
When I last wrote on the subject, I predicted that the government would in
effect wind down any meaningful police presence in Ulster. I was right. Mr.
Mandelson’s greatest betrayal was in accepting the Patten report. This report,
by the former Governor of Hong Kong and present European Commissioner Chris
Patten, bemoaned the lack of Catholic participation in the RUC. What it did not
make clear was the major role of the IRA in stopping Catholic recruitment into
the RUC. Instead, it called for the effective disbanding of one of the most
effective anti terrorist forces with no alternative apart from a temporary
peace process. Although there have been a couple of concessions to anti-
terrorist fears, the basic thrust of the report has been to neuter the police
service. Among other measures the British government will:
Stop vetting for all but convicted terrorists. So known terrorists who are not
convicted cannot be barred.
Disbanding the police intelligence arm, the Special Branch, with its knowledge
and network of informers within the IRA.
Bring in 50:50 quotas for new recruits into the Police Service. Although this
sounds innocuous, it discriminates against the Protestant population, which
make up 60% of the Northern Irish population. It also fails to address the
intimidation that honest recruits in IRA areas will be under, meaning that the
RUC will have to recruit any Catholic applicants, even if known as terrorists.
Renaming the RUC. Three hundred policemen died under that name, so this is
nothing more than an insult to these brave men’s memory calculated to placate
the IRA.
One must remember that the RUC kept Northern Ireland from the worst ravages of
terrorism. To sign up to this force, especially if one was Catholic, was to
offer yourself as a target to the IRA. The IRA saw their fight against the RUC
as a war. Moreover, the effective disbanding of the RUC is an effective
surrender to the IRA. When the IRA take up guns again, there will be no
effective barrier apart from the British army. Imagine what effect the British
army swamping Northern Ireland, well trained for combat but hardly model
policemen, will have on the American friends of the IRA, like Ted Kennedy and
Pete King.
THE EDUCATION SECRETARY’S ARMY
The IRA has not been disbanded. Indeed, despite promises they have not
surrendered a single gun. To an uneducated eye one would think that the IRA
were the victorious army, and the RUC the defeated one. That is how it is. One
must remember that the IRA did not win this by force, the RUC and the British
Army had successfully penned them in; the Catholic community they claimed to
protect shunned them. The IRA won this due to threats from Clinton and America.
Every step of the way President Clinton insisted on giving the IRA everything
they wanted. British governments under both John Major and Tony Blair knew that
they would lose much of the "influence" that they had over the world’s only
superpower, and Clinton knew that. Now we have two ministers in the Northern
Ireland government, in Health and Education, who have links to a private army.
Imagine if the Agriculture secretary in Texas were a Mafiosi hitman and the
Attorney General was an Aryan Nation activist; then you just about have the
picture. The American administration has forced gangsters in government upon
one of its supposed allies; this is Mr. Clinton’s proud legacy.
THE BETRAYAL OF ULSTER
The lowest blow is the betrayal of the wrong but romantic moderate Unionists.
These people told their sceptical constituents that the agreement could work
for them. They were told that the "consent principle" – that no change of
government was possible without the consent of the governed – was cemented in
by the peace process. It is for this reason that a narrow majority of
Protestants voted despite their fears for the Good Friday agreement. Tony Blair
promised them that Sinn Fein would disarm before joining the government; when
they refused, he insisted that they got their cabinet seats any way. The
moderate Unionists, such as the leader David Trimble and his ally Ken Maginnis,
are now politically dead. They risked everything on the word of Messrs Blair
and Clinton, and they were betrayed. Of course their political careers should
end now: in trusting the British and American governments, and persuading their
people to do the same, they have showed an immense lack of judgment.
Nevertheless, I will not be the only one who regrets their failure, for they
were decent and honest men who wanted peace and an end to sectarian bitterness.
In Tony Blair’s phrase, they were prepared to shut their eyes and jump into the
unknown, unknown only to them.
THE CONSEQUENCES FOR BRITAIN
The peace process has potentially fatal consequences for the state of democracy
in England itself. The promises on IRA guns, RUC disarmament and terrorist
ministers have all been broken. The very issue of the government of Ulster lies
as a future betrayal. The one thing that the people of Ulster do not want is to
be subsumed into an Irish morass but that is what they will get. This sends a
message loud and clear to any other political extremists who have no hope at
the ballot box. Racists just need to bomb a few mosques and synagogues and the
British government will wring its hands, condemn the violence and sit down with
the scum. Violence is more politically profitable than informed dissent. A
Government so contemptuous of its opponents really should not send this message
out.
THE ULSTER DILEMMA
Ulster Unionism as we commonly understand it is probably dead. In that the
Protestants desired a continued Union of Northern Ireland with Great Britain,
this passion is dead. The British, it is clear, are not that interested in the
continued union; they have "no selfish or strategic interest" in Northern
Ireland. The British, at least the British elite, cannot be trusted. The Irish
however are worse. The history of the Republic of Ireland is atrocious in
regards to minority rights; and it was to all intents and purposes a third
world country in living memory. The Irish improvement relies on two worryingly
temporary factors, the new social liberalism and European largesse. Firstly
there is the mood of liberalism that has swept Ireland in the last generation
that has made Ireland a startlingly different place from before in less than
two decades. There is no guarantee that this will continue, indeed in many ways
it is destroying much of what makes Ireland unique and there is no guarantee
that the Irish will wish to become a farming suburb of England. The other
factor, which unlike the social liberalism is guaranteed to end soon, is the
beneficence of the European Union. For every dollar sent to the EU seven goes
back to Ireland, for the UK the figure is fifty cents. With the expansion to
Eastern Europe, with their larger agricultural sectors and social problems,
this is bound to fail, as there will be more agriculture to engineering and
service companies.
THE ULSTER SOLUTION
So you can’t trust the British (especially with the Americans breathing down
their necks) and the Irish state is unacceptable, what is Ulster to do? The
only answer in the long run is independence. Semidetached Union is an open
invitation to the Irish – "If you can be federated within Britain, why not with
us?" (The answer – for the same reason you left the commonwealth – is not
allowed). Similarly full integration with Britain is not an option, not when
Scotland and Wales are semidetached. An independent Ulster is now possible,
with a British security guarantee (probably in return for stringent civil
rights legislation for Catholics – this reduces the Irish interest in the
province). Of course this is not a political option yet, because no one dares
talk about it, including the leaders of the Unionists. This is up to the
unionists; they need the imagination to take independence from the fringe,
where nutty paramilitaries and British Israelites espouse it. But it also needs
the support from Britain and the United States, Britain to see this as a way to
get rid of a liability without developing a reputation as a soft touch for
terrorists. America needs to actually get out of an area where there is no
American interest, apart from the gratification of the IRA loving Kennedy clan.
GO ELSEWHERE FOR YOUR LEGACY, MR. CLINTON
Mr. Clinton must accept that his legacy will never involve anything other than
misplaced cigars and flattened African pill factories. To try and expunge his
perjury and murder he is forcing the British to betray some of their most loyal
subjects to terrorists; it is no excuse that some of the British seem quite
capable of betrayal by themselves. Like Kosovo and Iraq it sums up this
terrorist of a President. What a little man.
Emmanuel Goldstein is the pseudonym of a political drifter on the fringes of
English classical liberal and Euro-sceptic activity. He is a former member of
the Labour Party, who knows Blair and some of his closest buddies better than
they realise, yet. He has a challenging job in the real world, working for a
profit-making private company and not sponging off the taxpayer in politics,
journalism or the civil service. "Airstrip One," appears Wednesdays at
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