Long Kesh, we Wish thar article from another loner on the recent afferances ain's favourite Irish person. THE MAJORITY of the Trish peopleare now against unity. This is the latest edict from Ireland's oen intellectual conscience, Dr Conor Cruise O'Brain (sic).
In his well publicised speech to the British Irish Association conference in Oxford, the clockwork pundit dismissed with ameinspiring linality the widespread misconception that the people of Ireland — If ever consulted on the massively support it.
SCHOLARLY For the modest sumof E9.90, Dr O' Brain had been able to purchase "Prejudice and Tolerance", and in this scholarly volume be upon insormation whach formed the Irish Question to the significance of the Square Barth Century.
When asked; Do you hold that national unity is an essential condition for the just solution of LIS NOI NORDUE FAOUE 57.5 per cent of the 1,000 Dublin coplecanvassed answered Ye By the simple addition of th Layalist population of the North oche42.3 SURICE WEE DES M My acceptance of the 'natural' ander or thines mient have neen as total as it ist0 prost of my ag group in the British Isles mattention woulhave a righe qualifications to siccepa to the powerrul posi ETALIMI dions to which they aspired. Afte all, had they not baried their heads in books while I enjoyed whatever mesures coul fire Politicians may be devious and corrumt, but then do they not bave vast experience and more letters per cent whom O'Brain academic world-wide repute, thiscountry? after cheir names than in them and would not our salvery and incompetanoe ourweich their corantion a hundred rimes? Is D •'Brain not an intellectunt the sort new-thinking person we need for Put him in a political party: let him spellbind the local branch wih bis wadoot have them spread the word of the man's genius throughour the area, and he DEMOCRACY Yet alter O'Brain has expunded so much verbal diarrhoen on every subject under the son, bas beaped Tenression Du crance vol and ruined wharever department be controlled, le is voted out of опісс зпо геріасв Dy tne nex! whizz kid with the TV smile and the big party backing Europe. There is nothing wrong with the man or woman in the built around these Icures! When the daily sources of knowledge, such as the media, sell lace — except that chocolate was never sold so well?
The peopleare told that government is inflation figures, import-export indices, the cost ai living index Just lease it 1o those with the koow-how and I experience and What then is the solution? The answer in one sentence is All meaith workers Will Coper Cruise O'Brain or any of his squally pars go on TV and simplify their politicai philosophy down to one Will tbey say: We will take three quarters of the wealth and we will look after you"? They won', but then that's why I'm in jail and they are on Ty every other night Because the answer is so simple tors haveto lock people un lest the truth gersaround.
Examples of political and re ligious discrimination bave al ready surfaced. One af the tomet TRENTE SCIEUS REACCR he punishment handed out tu he 22 year old Kepuhlican Jah VISUD. three-man Loyalist gang, from Lougieilly, South Armagh Joha Nixon wassensenced to 14 the alleged armad robbery of no Acmagh sub-post office in August 1976. The thre LIDE Debis Warloo and William Cull and civilian William Cumming -got six months, five years and tight sears respectively for the armed robbery of Glenanne Pos Office, South Armagh in Die date sentence was Just 16 days before the Republican's the North of Ireland justify the vast differences in these senten amounts caken in both robberies were similar: the offences were committed around the same tiane: the defendenes were of similar age.
DERISORY Furthermane. Armagh where Nixon comes from has para military activity compared to the which has seen several murders committed within radius of both Loughgilly and Glenanne. I cite the following examples "Ar a bogus military checkdie fooball Fans were assa d in Seprember 1 "The Heavey brosbers were murdered in their homes near Whitecross in January 1976 b wearing ariny-type uni Cel despite chis, the Loyalis and John Nixon gor 14 years. It member of the Northere minerity stands little chance of an impartial rrial or a fair sentence troi these non-jury cours, aper bigotry and discrimiontion.