"Ride a cock horse to Banbury Fair". An IRA principal. Military agency

 "The IRA always intended to make him a principal" (Michael O Riordain,The Judgement,23 December 1991,Dublin)

In the 1970's I was offered the choice to become a principal by my brother-in-law,a sergeant in the Irish Army with "more power than a general and a life with less comfort than a dog".

I was a principal from an early age,an Irish Army decoy in their war with the British dressed up as a war of national liberation.

I went on,as my stature grew to become the principal for the peaceful end of the monstrous tyranny in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union,a work which is far from finished. My authority and standing to bring a state based on a revolutionary upset to its terminus came from my involvement in the IRA.

The system of military agency is orchestrated by the armies of the world in association with the churches. This system  of partly 'natural selection' is the only true form of meritocracy such as that value-being amounts to. In Ireland ,it is at once the work of one soldier and at the same time,the work of many "souls yearning to be free".

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Why do people fasten on to others other than for money, guidance and comfort. They have thrown away their own life chances and intend to profit from their hapless host. They are bloodsuckers,leeches whose presence requires a different sort of specialist to remove them,namely a good advocate or a trade union officer or someone delegated by a worldly-wise wise father in his final years. 

Headstrong men such as principals rarely realise that they are carrying people on their backs. The selection of young men mirrors that of the Biblical Daniel and the role is as articulated in Isaiah.

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Principals are people put in charge of those with no fathers or proper upbringing to give them a sense of direction. Like all military arrangements,the relationship operates on the basis of reciprocity,you cover my arse and I'll cover yours.

When the orchestrator of this arrangement dies-he is usually a NCO in the army-or times change so that paramilitaries become irrelevant,the relationship slowly withers on the vine and the only tangible reminders are those who met and served under The Great Leader,as it were. This sort of prophetic leader is only remembered in his own lifetime in his own locality because the arrangement is temporary and local despite indications to the contrary.

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"When you're of no further use to Irish soldiers and the Provo godfathers, you'll soon find out what they really think of you. That's when you realise that you were being taken for a ride all along by publicans,taxi drivers and similar ne'er-do-wells (Pope Francis,'zizzianeri',gossips/weeds). They will have found someone else to take your place before you get the dirty kick out. That's how all political parties operate and the SDLP and Fianna Fail are no different. Fine Gael is a conservative party. They do things differently."

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The Provos hate socialists. They and their type never unite with anyone other than criminals to cause confusion,distraction and public nuisance. They are the dregs of society wherever you find an organised Sinn Fein cumann.

They use distraction and nuisance to keep those they are deceiving in association with the police -a relationship they admit no knowledge of-in fetters. They talk big talk but do not have a political or socialist thought in their head. They are window breakers,street fighters and criminals whose summit of ambition is the dole.

The clegging to people who are better educated and more aware is essentially a plea for assistance and encouragement.

It is always best to keep the Provos at the end of a telephone connection and treat them as dangerous animals and errant stooges of imperialism in almost the entirety of their numbers.

There have historically been no Provos involved in campaigns on real social issues such as hospitals and schools. There is precious little interest shown by their supporters in trade unionism. Theirs is always a johnny-come-lately and devil-take-the-hindmost attitude to social undertakings. That is perpetuated by pro-British and pro-unionist attempts to exclude them from public discourse.

 For their part,the Provos and their fellow travellers, revolutionary socialists and self-styled Communists,exclude democrats and democratic socialists from public discourse where they are in elected or usurped roles.

In the 1920's in Ireland,socialists sat out the nationalist insurrection because they realised that most workers would be better off in a Home Rule situation. They ignored pleas to join in the merry disportments of Irish nationalists. After 1916 it became clear that with gassoons such as De Valera, Flanagan and Collins giving the speeches that there would be no toleration for socialists or workers in Sinn Fein's misty-eyed republic. No socialist worth his keep joined in the 1919-1921 piece of political showmanship,most of it illusory.

In the 1930's it became clear to De Valera that there was substantial working class socialist sentiment in Counties Cork and Kerry and parts of the Southeast and Dublin. His friends in the Catholic hierarchy prescribed national populism and Christian centrism.

That eliminated any prospect of the left or, later,the Blueshirts coming to power by way of a putsch. Neither left nor right (after Larkin left the Communists in 1928) had any support. They would try their hand only at moral blackmail of their opponents and an attempt to storm the Dail which they referred to as Leinster House. It is to this day a sure sign of a Blueshirt to refer to any parliamentary assembly by its building's name or,in the case of England,as Westminster. Neither fool recognises the validity and efficacy of parliamentary government and judicial independence.