What connects Elizabeth I’s Tudor conquest criminalising the Irish language and Gaelic culture in 1556 to Mo Chara of @KNEECAPCEOL being charged under the Terrorism Act for expressing it in 2024?
What spans 743 years connecting Edward I first deploying hanging, drawing and quartering as formal state punishment to destroy the last native Prince of Wales in 1283 to the English state still bestowing that same stolen title on its own heirs today?
What spans 727 years connecting Edward I seizing the Stone of Scone, stripping Scotland of its sovereign symbols to the UK Supreme Court ruling Scotland has no right to ask its own people if they want to be free?
What spans 254 years connecting the East India Company continuing to collect taxes, block relief and export grain while 10 million Bengalis starved to death in 1770 to Westminster still collecting rent on a global financial system built on that extraction?
What spans 196 years connecting Westminster legalising the shooting of Aboriginal Tasmanians on sight in 1828, then marching 2,200 settlers in a human chain across the island to round up the survivors to Australia Day still being celebrated as a national holiday?
What spans 125 years connecting Westminster inventing the modern concentration camp in South Africa in 1899 killing 28,000 women and children to the @UN ruling its occupation of the Chagos Islands illegal, which Westminster simply ignored?
What spans 107 years connecting Westminster promising #Palestine to a movement whose leaders didn’t live there, without consulting a single person who did to Westminster still refusing any responsibility for 5 million Palestinian refugees?
What spans 442 years connecting the 1571 Royal Exchange and England centralising all financial intelligence into a single London hub to Westminster’s GCHQ secretly intercepting 600 million global communications daily from the same city in 2013?
What spans 181 years connecting Westminster forcing Caribbean nations to borrow money to compensate slave owners in 1834 to those same nations finally paying off that debt in 2015, having spent 181 years paying Westminster for ending their own people’s enslavement?
And what connects all of the above to the Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26, currently before Parliament, granting Westminster courts the power to suspend any domain or IP address linked to ‘serious crime’ defined broadly enough to include organised collective action, the infrastructure every community in these islands depends on to organise?
The English Empire never ended, it just adapted!
The world is awakening to the truth.
Eòin J Màrtainn
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