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Visa Denial of Irish Republicans

Stop Visa Denial of Irish Republicans
Stop All Visa Denial

The editorial on the visa denial to the Provisional Sinn Fein U.S. representative Rita O’Hare in last week’s issue was right on the mark.

This policy of visa denial to be used as a political tool or a reward or punishment gesture is an ongoing tactic that is still being used against leading members of Republican Sinn Fein for years now. Why?

Not because of a glitch in some previous travels to the U.S. It is because Republican Sinn Fein refuses to compromise on the core beliefs of the Republican movement and will not accept the right of any Brit legal authority in any part of Ireland.

No matter how much pressure is brought to bear on Republican Sinn Fein and the Republican movement by Dublin, London or Washington, it is the right of the Irish alone to determine their course of action.

The U.S. visa denial of Republican Sinn Fein members has led to a one-sided failed peace process, where all discourse is limited to one solution, the Good Friday Agreement.

We are led to believe there is only one option out there, but there is not! Republican Sinn Fein has put forth their realistic blueprint towards peace and unity with justice in their Eire Nua political paper policy.

Eire Nua sets in motion the road to an independent federal type democratic socialist republic, contingent on a complete Brit disengagement from Ireland in orderly fashion north, south, east and west.

Eire Nua is not being allowed the open and honest discourse and format to be discussed and debated among the American Irish because the continuing denial of visas to Republican Sinn Fein spokespersons who can elucidate and promote Eire Nua as an alternative plan.

Special interests are at work against those who seek to change the status quo, but that will not stop real Republicans from continuing the struggle for national sovereignty.

I call upon the U.S. to stop the use of visa denials to discriminate against Republican Sinn Fein! And any other political party in Ireland, including the Provos.


Sean O' Lubaigh, Canton, Ohio
 
 

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