John Crawley
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first heard Apr 2026
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I think it's important when you're involved in something like that to try to look at the big picture and to see who the real enemy is.
And the real enemy was, as far as I was concerned, British strategy in Ireland.
If you focus too much on your real enemy, is the loyalist or the unionist or the guy, because, you know, everything's parochial and, you know,
Things could get too parochial and you get tied up in sort of maybe an almost tribal thing, you know what I mean?
And it's easy to see why that would happen.
I mean, you know, people often wonder, you know, why did the Indians not get together and, you know, fight the white men of the West?
I mean, the Indians were working for the cavalry here.
killing each other you see that tribal thing that tribal stuff that you have you have that everywhere you know you have that everywhere and and uh uh a power like britain exploits that you know exploits it but they sort of created the tribes in the first place because ireland was just was uh
was a separate country with a separate language and a separate culture.
And they planted Ulster as an act of ethnic cleansing, bringing Scottish and, you know, mostly Scottish and English planters in there to turn Ulster, which at that time was the toughest nut for England to crack, into an area that would become like...
a dagger aimed at, almost aimed at the heart of our national cohesion.
What Ulster Unionists now, you know, saying that they don't want to unite Ireland, they don't want to live in an all-Ireland republic.
This division, this thing is baked in, you know what I mean?
But it was planted by the British.
It was designed to be that way.
If you read what they were saying at the time of the plantations, they were open about it.
You know, we're going to make Ireland English or we're going to make Ireland British.
And even the Edmund Spencer, the famous English planter in Elizabethan times, you know, said that the Irishman will in time quite learn to forget his Irish nation.
And that was the plan to wipe out the Irish nation.
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