FAQ's - The Irish Freedom
Committee™
The Irish Freedom Committee™ is
a Nation-Wide, U.S.-Based, registered Not-For-Profit organization devoted to
education on the root causes of the war with Britain, and the support of Irish
political prisoners imprisoned as a result of British military occupation of
Ireland. We do
not endorse any political party in Ireland, but remain strong proponents for
International scrutiny into ongoing British War Crimes in Occupied Ireland and
against Irish nationals living in Britain and in the Free State. We are a
thriving and growing community of hundreds of concerned activists across the
United States who want to make a difference. Read our Mission
Statement.
The Irish Freedom Committee™
places Education at the forefront of all we do. It is our firm belief that
only through a better understanding of the root causes of the war with Britain,
and the exposure of ongoing and unresolved Human Rights abuses against Irish
Nationals, that the TRUTH about British occupation of Ireland will emerge in the
public eye. We are building an Irish
History database, with links to a Bibliography and Recommended Reading for
further study. We strive to bring you breaking news and commentary
through our IFC NewsList; where we also alert you to the
ongoing crisis for Irish Republican Political Prisoners. We additionally
bring you daily news updates from Ireland on our Live
News page. We host Community Events
throughout the year in some of the areas where we are located. We also
initiate National Campaigns to better
address issues or situations needing Community support.
The Irish Freedom Committee™ opposes
the so-called "Good Friday Agreement" because we maintain that it is a
British document designed solely to strengthen the Border and reaffirm British
rule in Ireland. As a prerequisite to the promised "Peace", the
Irish people were asked to change the Irish Constitution; amending the wording
of Articles 2 and 3 to surrender the Constitutional claim to the Six
Counties. The Irish people were promised "Peace" in exchange for
a "Yes" vote to the Treaty-- and since then have seen only more
sectarian violence and state-sanctioned murders; including the burning
alive of the three Quinn boys and the assassination of noted civil rights
attorney Rosemary
Nelson. This newest of British Treaties is in actuality a
"Pacification Process", with former republicans taking seats in a
hated British puppet government Stormont-- accepting the Queen's shilling in
exchange for their role in better administering British rule in Ireland.
Read more.
Following the signing of the 1998
Stormont Treaty, hundreds of prisoners held on political charges in
Ireland and Occupied Six Counties were released unconditionally; under the
assumption or tacit agreement that they would support this new Treaty.
Once the terms of the Treaty were imposed, any act of resistance to
British military rule was criminalized. All prisoners subsequently
arrested on political charges would henceforth be denied Political
Status-- and in the case of POWs at Maghaberry in the Occupied Six Counties,
be housed individually amongst Loyalist paramilitary prisoners; who have
brutally beaten several of them and have recently delivered a written death
threat against any Irish Republican housed at Maghaberry. There are
currently over 70 Irish Republican Political Prisoners housed in Irish and
British jails needing our continuing support. Read more.
Media spin is routinely applied
when the subject is "Northern Ireland". If you read your news
from a major Metropolitan newspaper, or get it from the radio or TV, you are
almost certainly going to hear that the ongoing war in the North of Ireland is a
"religious war". This is a patent fabrication, purely designed
to justify a continuing British military presence in today's Ireland.
Britain has used this tactic all over the world, anywhere she has sought to sow
the seeds of Colonial Rule. In point of fact, Irish Republicanism was
founded by Protestants; and throughout Irish history Irish Presbyterians and Protestants
have been at the vanguard of resistance to British Rule-- most notably by
Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Protestant founder of the principles from whence we
take our inspiration; who strove to "Break the connection with England, the
never-ending source of all political evil". Ask yourself-- if it's a
"religious war", why aren't Irish Republicans fighting for
religion?? The "religion" card is a smokescreen to direct the
eyes of the world away from the real issues of resistance to British military
occupation. The war with Britain is in actuality a struggle for Human
Rights; a struggle against ongoing military occupation, 24-hour surveillance,
police oppression, state-sanctioned murder, and the criminalization of the
pursuit of Freedom and Justice in a 32-County All-Ireland
Republic.
As a concerned individual, there
is a lot anyone can do without a great deal of effort. The Irish Freedom
Committee™ maintains an ACTION REQUEST page,
with suggestions on how YOU can make your voice heard on behalf of appalling
loss of basic human rights to Irish Political Prisoners. All it takes is
an email, letter, or telephone call-- because of the fact that public opinion is
measured demographically against the sum total of the population, one voice can
make a tremendous difference.
GET INVOLVED!!!
The Irish Freedom
Committee™ is currently forming new chapters in several parts of the United
States -- maybe in your area! Write
to us for our InfoPacket, which contains more information about who we are
and what we do; as well as Membership Information. Get your The Irish
Freedom Committee™ Membership Card today!
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