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 Saturday February 17, 2007 18:48 by Tom O' Hawk - Shell to Sea
 "For the menace of our enemies hangs over us, and the essential immediate purpose is to show the spirit that animates us, and how we face the future" (Terence MacSwiney) And the spirit that animates us was evidenced yesterday in the 500 or so people - the majority as far afield as Cork - who showed to bear witness in magnificent measure to the unrelenting struggle of the people of Rossport against a government who has joined forces with a ruthless predatory corporate power in the steamrollering and criminalising of legitimate dissent As Giovanni Gentile put it, in a definition Mussolini subsequently claimed credit for: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." If Gentile defined the nature of the beast, it is MacSwiney who inspires us to bring the fucker to heel whether at the forthcoming General Election or through endless protest and endurance : "It is not they who can inflict the most but they who can suffer the most who will prevail ... those whose spirit is strong will endure to the end and triumph" (more or less, the words of MacSwiney). |
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