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The New York St. Patricks Day Parade Committee enjoy a cozy relationship with the New York Post, allowing the paper to run a lucrative advertising supplement on March 17 in return for giving them the lineup of the march. In so doing, they deprive every other newspaper, except the Irish Echo, of what should be public information.
The parade organizers have seemed utterly blind to the anti-peace process agenda of the New York Post, as if there is no connection at all between what they do and what the Post actually believes.
So anxious to scrabble in the greasy till and make whatever pittance they can from the Posts big favor, the Parade Committee has ignored the most vicious anti-Irish agenda of any newspaper in America.
It is unthinkable that any major Irish organization should put significant business the way of the New York Post. You can only imagine what Jewish groups would rightfully do if the Post suddenly began taking an anti-Israeli line.
Yet the Parade Committee is seemingly still going along with lining the coffers of the Post come St. Patricks Day. It would be hard to find a more egregious example of an Uncle Tom organization, given the Posts hatred of the Irish peace process.
Last Sunday, the New York Post ran yet another poisonous editorial which made very clear again their disdain for that peace process and for Gerry Adams, the architect of much of that historic undertaking.
It is obvious that the Post has sold out to the British Information Service (BIS) on the issue of Northern Ireland.
The editorial was a complete handout from the BIS, down to some of the ludicrous charges against the republican movement. None was more egregious than the fact presented that IRA booby traps were found in the West Bank scant months ago.
What utter nonsense. That report is based on the musings of a British army officer who claimed he saw similarities between booby traps used in the West Bank and in Northern Ireland. You might as well say that if someone if killed by an American weapon in the Middle East, then the United States killed him.
The editorial goes on to say about Irish Americans, The fools and fanatics who regularly send cash to the IRA should be ashamed of themselves.
Let us explain a few facts to the Post. (A) There is a peace process in Northern Ireland. (B) The IRA is no longer operating. (C) There have been fewer lives lost this year so far in Northern Ireland than at any time since the troubles began in 1969.
The Post also castigates Sinn Fein for calling for no war in Iraq. If that is to be the criteria, then well over half of the major political parties in every European country should be shunned. Where does the Post think the 400,000 demonstrators in Italy against war last weekend came from?
The Post clearly has nothing but disdain for the views of many prominent Irish Americans who have helped Sinn Fein, the political wing of the republican movement, and who have had a huge influence in bringing about the peace process the Post has clearly never heard about.
Towards the end of its editorial, the Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, whose papers are legendary for their anti-Irish stories in Britain, makes its agenda clear. The United States has one wholly reliable ally on this troubled planet: Great Britain to the extent that the rest of the world embraced Anglo-American values it would be a better place. Try telling that to the Nationalists in Northern Ireland.
It is inexcusable that the parade honchos continue to do business with this newspaper. If there are any committee members with any pride at all in their Irish blood they should intervene.
The parade organizers have seemed utterly blind to the anti-peace process agenda of the New York Post, as if there is no connection at all between what they do and what the Post actually believes.
So anxious to scrabble in the greasy till and make whatever pittance they can from the Posts big favor, the Parade Committee has ignored the most vicious anti-Irish agenda of any newspaper in America.
It is unthinkable that any major Irish organization should put significant business the way of the New York Post. You can only imagine what Jewish groups would rightfully do if the Post suddenly began taking an anti-Israeli line.
Yet the Parade Committee is seemingly still going along with lining the coffers of the Post come St. Patricks Day. It would be hard to find a more egregious example of an Uncle Tom organization, given the Posts hatred of the Irish peace process.
Last Sunday, the New York Post ran yet another poisonous editorial which made very clear again their disdain for that peace process and for Gerry Adams, the architect of much of that historic undertaking.
It is obvious that the Post has sold out to the British Information Service (BIS) on the issue of Northern Ireland.
The editorial was a complete handout from the BIS, down to some of the ludicrous charges against the republican movement. None was more egregious than the fact presented that IRA booby traps were found in the West Bank scant months ago.
What utter nonsense. That report is based on the musings of a British army officer who claimed he saw similarities between booby traps used in the West Bank and in Northern Ireland. You might as well say that if someone if killed by an American weapon in the Middle East, then the United States killed him.
The editorial goes on to say about Irish Americans, The fools and fanatics who regularly send cash to the IRA should be ashamed of themselves.
Let us explain a few facts to the Post. (A) There is a peace process in Northern Ireland. (B) The IRA is no longer operating. (C) There have been fewer lives lost this year so far in Northern Ireland than at any time since the troubles began in 1969.
The Post also castigates Sinn Fein for calling for no war in Iraq. If that is to be the criteria, then well over half of the major political parties in every European country should be shunned. Where does the Post think the 400,000 demonstrators in Italy against war last weekend came from?
The Post clearly has nothing but disdain for the views of many prominent Irish Americans who have helped Sinn Fein, the political wing of the republican movement, and who have had a huge influence in bringing about the peace process the Post has clearly never heard about.
Towards the end of its editorial, the Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, whose papers are legendary for their anti-Irish stories in Britain, makes its agenda clear. The United States has one wholly reliable ally on this troubled planet: Great Britain to the extent that the rest of the world embraced Anglo-American values it would be a better place. Try telling that to the Nationalists in Northern Ireland.
It is inexcusable that the parade honchos continue to do business with this newspaper. If there are any committee members with any pride at all in their Irish blood they should intervene.