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Veterans Day's Lesson

The year was 1966. My father was drafted as soon as he graduated college. He was promptly sent to OCS and then language school to learn Vietnamese. Assigned with four other American officers to an ARVN unit, he was forced to take part as a translator during Operation Phoenix, aka The Phoenix Program:

'...The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phượng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a military, intelligence, and internal security program designed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and coordinated and executed by Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus and US Special Operations Forces such as the Navy SEALs, United States Army Special Forces and MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. It was in operation between 1967 and 1972, but similar efforts existed both before and after this. The program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, or assassination) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) insurgency...'

Basically this consisted of translating for the CIA and DIA while they tortured Vietnamese people.

'...Vietnam, 65-70 details re Vietnam. From 65-68 U.S. and Saigon intel services maintained an active list of VC cadre marked for assassination. Phoenix Program for 69 called for "neutralizing" 1800 a month. About one third of VC targeted for arrest had been summarily killed. Security committees established in provincial interrogation centers to determine fate of VC suspects, outside of judicial controls...

...Vietnam, 73 According to Defense Dept official 26,369 South Vietnamese civilians killed under Phoenix while op under direct U.S. control (Jan 68 thru Aug 72 ). By same source, another 33,358 detained without trial. Colby in 73 admitted 20,587 deaths thru end 71 , 28,978 captured, and 17,717 "rallied" to Saigon gvt. Thus approx 30% targeted individuals killed. All Phoenix stats fail to reflect U.S. Activity after "official" U.S. Control of op abandoned. Counterspy spring/summer 75 8...

...Vietnam, 71 William E. Colby on july 19, 1971, before Senate subcommittee testified CIA op Phoenix had killed 21,587 Vietnamese citizens between 1/68 and 5/71. In response to a question from mr. Reid "do you state categorically that Phoenix has never perpetrated the premeditated killing of a civilian in a non-combat situation?" Colby replied: "No, I could not say that...I certainly would not say never." Counterspy 12/78 6...'

The Phoenix Program rounded up Vietnamese 'suspects', killed them, tortured them and made them disappear.

The lesson here is that this is not strange or outrageous behavior. This is how empires control other countries. It's standard practice. Julius Ceasar rounded up troublesome Celts in the lands he conquered and killed them, or terrorized them into submission. Rome burnt Carthage to the ground and sowed salt in their fields.

America stole all of its land from people who already lived there, rounded them up, put them in camps, and/or killed them wholesale. We call them Native Americans, or Indians, in case your official government-controlled 'education' is missing some data.

America also laid waste to the Philippines.

'...In 1908 Manuel Arellano Remondo, in General Geography of the Philippine Islands, wrote: “The population decreased due to the wars, in the five-year period from 1895 to 1900, since, at the start of the first insurrection, the population was estimated at 9,000,000, and at present (1908), the inhabitants of the Archipelago do not exceed 8,000,000 in number.”[...]'

Yes, that's one million dead Filipinos in five years, simply because they didn't bow to the American Empire.

That was the turn of the 20th century, so that's the American Empire dated back 100+ years.

Let's go further, to the middle of the 19th century.

'[...]By 1863 Missouri, under U.S. Army occupation, was a place were "arson, theft, and murder became so common that vast sections of the state were uninhabited." Cisco quotes Union General James H. Lane as saying, "We believe in a war of extermination. I want to see every foot of ground in Jackson, Cass and Bates counties burned over – everything laid waste."

Another practice of the Union Army that is reminiscent of totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century was forced relocation of suspected dissenters. Cisco gives chapter and verse of how this occurred in Missouri, Tennessee, and elsewhere, as thousands of civilians were forced to leave their homes. This even included Ohio Congressman Clement Vallandigham...

...An entire chapter is devoted to the sacking of Athens, Alabama, in 1862. Every store and shop in the town was looted, along with most private homes, where U.S. troops went about "stealing what they wanted and destroying the rest."[...]

...Cisco documents "Abuse of African-Americans" by Sherman’s army in his final, stomach-turning chapter. Slaves were raped, pillaged, and murdered indiscriminately along with the white population of the South, and Sherman did nothing to stop it.

A favorite pastime of Sherman’s "bummers" was to tie a black man up by his thumbs until he told them where any valuables might be hidden. Sometimes they were hung by the neck instead, and quite often killed in that way. "They tied me up by my two thumbs and try to make me tell where I hid the money and gold watch and silver, but I swore I didn’t know," said a former slave, quoted by Cisco from The Slave Narratives...'

More American history they never told you in school. Bloodthirsty laying of waste to the South to get them to submit to the power of the Federal government. Theft, rape, pillage, murder, American on American, not even some far away place or strange foreigner to hate.

See a pattern yet? No? Get some mental floss and open your eyes.

So kids, todays Veteran's Day lesson is two-fold:

The government will use you to strengthen their own power. You will kill and you will steal. People will try to kill you. Why?

Your government has sent you to someone else's country to kill them, steal their stuff and tell you what to do.

They will lie to you to get you to do it, and to get wide-spread support for it from the people.

It's truly amazing that so many Veterans go through the same experience and never dare to question.

What's truly sad is that we never learn.

Instead of pissing all over the memory of our Veterans, and these important lessons they've learned for us, let's spread this knowledge far and wide. Let's lay aside the useless jingoistic phrases and thoughts, and respect these Veterans for what really happened.

After all, as my father will be the first to tell you, there were never any Vietnamese people invading the US. There were never any Vietnamese people walking down main street, shooting, raping and killing Americans. He's still not sure what people thank him for.

Lord knows the Vietnamese didn't. They just wanted us all to go back to our own country and leave them alone.

...much like Iraqis, Afghanis, Sioux, Iroquis, Filipinos, etc.

Voting is Important, You Must Vote

Obama, Porn and Communism?

What could be better? Well, better define that communism first. The porn part is easy, we'll get to that.

Listen up children, Uncle Eamon likes:

"...Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private property and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production,[1][2] Direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations, workers' councils and/or a Gift economy through which everyone will be free to satisfy their needs.

Anarchist communism is also known as anarcho-communism, communist anarchism, or sometimes, libertarian communism. However, while all anarchist communists are libertarian communists, some libertarian communists, such as council communists, are not anarchists. What distinguishes anarchist communism from other variants of libertarian communism is the former's opposition to all forms of political power, hierarchy and domination..."

So what does Obama have to do with communism, anarchist, totalitarianist, authoritarian, or otherwise?

In his autobiography:

"...Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank'

...'a poet named Frank,' who visited them in Hawaii, read poetry, and was full of 'hard-earned knowledge' and advice. Who was Frank? Obama only says that he had 'some modest notoriety once,' was 'a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes during his years in Chicago...' but was now 'pushing eighty.' He writes about 'Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self' giving him advice before he left for Occidental College in 1979 at the age of 18..."

The link above is to AIM and does have a decidedly conservative slant, but the analysis of his autobiography and the ID of 'Frank' as Frank Marshall Davis is quite clear and logical.

Davis (above link):

"...was an American journalist, poet and political and labor movement activist. In 1950 he was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for his links with the Communist Party USA in the United States.[1]..."

So were a lot of folks. The official line is it was a witch hunt, McCarthyites are convinced, the truth may be somewhere in between. Regardless, any communists in the 50s were likely pro-Soviet, State loving, power worshipping liberals who wanted to dictate to people like the moderate sociopaths and the conservative ones do. All power corrupts. Only solution is to have no to power to corrupt.

May we also not forget Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as Western Technology given to Soviet hands.

The Associated Press notes that:

"...Davis was 'an important influence' on Obama but doesn’t mention Davis’s communist views and how he took the Stalinist line before, during, and after World War II..."

How about after hearing of Stalin's Ukrainian Famine? Communist, Capitalist, doesn't matter. All power corrupts unless kept honest in person with intelligence and critical thinking. Ahem.

Now, whether or not he is using mind control (which is really just established sales techniques, neuro-linguistic programming, basically Erickson's hypnosis therapy and psycho-babble) this version of communism is decidedly liberal and authoritarian. These are the kind of folks who think they know better than others and will happily use the government to tell you what to do, for your own good. The Nanny State. It's the same ruling class just selling you a liberal story instead of a conservative one.

Now porn? Nothing wrong with porn. Frank Marshal Davis wrote the extremely kinky Sex Rebel: Black under a pseudonym. 

Authoritarian communism combined with racism and religious fundamentalism? Lots of things wrong that. Ask the Ukraine.

...and that's just creepy.

Hey kids, do it for yourself, "be the next" whatever for yourself, for your family, for your neighborhood, not for some stupid aristocrat. Race, like elephants and donkeys, is just more nonsense to get us to hate each other and not the ruling class. Please don't become cannon fodder killing machines for where your Obama tells you to go fight and die.

More Anarchic Reconstructionism

In Secessionists to Sarah: "Baby Come Back!" I waxed a bit poetic about what the true nature of democracy is:

"...removal of all but the absolute minimum of governments everywhere, and the submission of all State and Federal governments to the smallest, most local neighborhood democratic committees possible. Limited government will then come from the grassroots up, with the local, involved citizenry everywhere having the loudest possible voice, amplified through the authority of local, controllable by the individual, neighborhood town meetings. Free association is key, so folks may have to be permitted to move. With the power in the people, money should be supplied directly to them in order to allow for moving, establishment of the previously mentioned neighborhood committees, etc. A single week of Wall Street and banking class crime, facilitated by the Federal government, aka, $1.3 trillion, should be more than enough..."

Informed, happy, educated people with their physical needs met make democracy work. Ignorant, miserable, stupid people who fear for their daily bread make tyranny work. (Strangely enough, fear for bread often forces those in group 2 to become those in group 1) True democracy only works on a small scale, with free association to neighborhoods, small communities and unions. People have to be able to control directly the representatives, and they must have all the power, so then final authority for one's own locality and workplace must be in the hands of the representatives they dictate to in person at meetings and so on.

Any separation between the people and any representatives is tyranny and non-representation.

This true democratic, anarchic reconstruct is impossible to police properly with widespread ignorance and poor education among the people. The tyranny of ignorant and uneducated masses dictating to their fellow man on a small, in person scale would not be any better than the current system, which has ignorant and uneducated masses endorsing tyrants to dictate to them and their fellow man, tyrants who answer only to corporate and banking oligarchs. Voting in such a system is truly a disgusting and immoral sociopathic behavior which education and personal responsibility can solve.

Education combined with personal responsibility leads to responsibility to humankind in general.

Schools which dictate to children to regurgitate half-true facts instead of learning how to critically think to find higher truth combine with alpha-wave inducing television to create unthinking zombies.

Personal responsibility should lead moral and thinking humans to stop that cycle and educate themselves.

Encouragement of personal irresponsibility leads to disrespect for one's self as well as humankind in general.

Tyranny starts with the individual.

Stop tyrannizing yourself, me and everyone else with your ignorance and irresponsibility.

Young Ned of the Hill

"Ned of the Hill" aka Eamon an Chnoic.

Well done sir:

Secessionists to Sarah: "Baby Come Back"

'Oh Sarah, won't you come back to us? We dream of you night at day. You're really laying low, then McCain will kick the bucket and you'll allow the States to secede, right?'

'Don't you remember all the wonderful times we had together? When your hubby was a member of our Alaskan Independence Party? You even spoke to us once, we remember it like it was yesterday."

'Remember what our founder said? Why are you ashamed of us? It's not like we're some loony preacher from Chi-Town. We're good, all-American Libertarian types, you know, like the dudes in the wigs that used to have rebellions when governments got too tyrannical.'

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,"

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

"And I won't be buried under their damn flag,"

"And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska."

'Oh Sarah! The pain is too much! Please, please tell us you're really a secessionist in disguise still! You'll save us all, won't you? Bring the whole sordid Federal mess down and leave us States be? Won't you? We'll do anything, anything. We love you Sarah, just give us a sign!'

'Oh, of course, sure, on the 'down low' and all that, we gotcha.'

'Love always,'

'American Secessionists'

(Afterthoughts: Just to clarify, Eamon is no fan of State governments versus Federal and is a true anarchic reconstructionist, mainly espousing the removal of all but the absolute minimum of governments everywhere, and the submission of all State and Federal governments to the smallest, most local neighborhood democratic committees possible. Limited government will then come from the grassroots up, with the local, involved citizenry everywhere having the loudest possible voice, amplified through the authority of local, controllable by the individual, neighborhood town meetings. Free association is key, so folks may have to be permitted to move. With the power in the people, money should be supplied directly to them in order to allow for moving, establishment of the previously mentioned neighborhood committees, etc. A single week of Wall Street and banking class crime, facilitated by the Federal government, aka, $1.3 trillion, should be more than enough.)

(He also finds Sarah Palin vaguely attractive for some bizarre reason, most likely TV-created programming beamed directly into most American males' brains. Either that, or it's the dreams of her dragging a freshly self-hunted caribou home in a bikini, and then cooking up some caribou steaks on the grill in the aforementioned swim-wear. Conservative family values combined with libertarian and egalitarian feminism makes Eamon randy as hell. Well, that and former beauty pageant lasses in librarian glasses. Hubba hubba.)

$1.3 TRILLION Ruling Class Heist

As well you all have heard by now, the ruling class tanked the market this week in a major hissy fit after their own two-party state-worship machine broke down briefly on them. (Strangely enough, the market dropped 777 points in one day, which as any ruling class occultist knows: "...refers to a lightning flash descending the diagrammatic worlds, the sum of the values of the corresponding Hebrew letters equalling 777. It consists of roughly 191 columns, with each row corresponding to a specific Sephirah or path on the Tree of Life for a total of 35 rows and is used for a quick reference for corresponding mnemonics and factors of religion for use in magick...")

However, there was little fear among them as their own financial organs quickly released a tidal wave of pre-planned liquidity to stem the tide: "Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression..."

Then, on Friday: "October 4, 2008, WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives approved the $700-billion Wall Street bailout Friday, setting in motion the biggest government intervention in the financial system since the Great Depression.

President Bush quickly signed the bill, and Treasury Department officials vowed to move swiftly to use sweeping new powers to try to stabilize financial markets and ease deepening fears about the economy..."

Let me break that down for you:

    $630 billion

+ $700 billion

--------------------

    $1.3 trillion

or

    $1,300,000,000,000

In other words:

The ruling class' latest financial bubble in their brain-dead Chicago, Fascist, Communist, Capitalist, Authoritarian, Corporate economic school of central banking required them to steal $1.3 trillion dollars from We The People of these Independent and Free States to cover their asses.

In other news, the Satanic (shout out to LightningRod and the Liberty Forum Tribe, represent) feminazi Child Support State continues to impoverish and separate fathers and children while the ruling class that enslaves the same feminazis that support it laugh hysterically and pocket free hand-outs. Our nation's own children aren't good enough for free support direct from the State, no strings attached, but Wall Street is? Fecking eejits. Then we'll all wonder why there are so many poor, fatherless children running around sociopathically:

"Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective. Sociopaths only care about fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term 'sociopath" is frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental failures (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of temperament."

Nothing personal of course. Ahem.

Fathers and Dads for Equal Custody Rights

Finally, I'm sure there's plenty of games in the arena today for you to gaze moronically at while drinking large quantities of brain killing alcohol, so pay all of this no mind and continue to snuggle into your TV's warm glow. Everything will be fine. Nothing to see here. Fecking sheeple.

(...LF tribe, LightningRod...)

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Any Irish-American that watches this film and can still support what America is currently doing to Iraq and Afghanistan, and has done in its' past to Vietnam, The Philippines, Guatemala, Nicaragua, etc. needs to contact their doctor immediately and have their head removed from their ass.

Our people were one of the first victims of modern Imperialism. Learn your history. Stop the evil that is Empire.

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Elite Planned Depopulation

Ever heard this mystery? Some random rich dude walks into a itty-bitty Georgia town, smacks down a ton of cash and hires a company to erect a big creepy, dictatorial Stonehenge-looking thing on some farmer's land?

"In June 1979, an unknown group hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure."

The Georgia Guidestones are filled with all sorts of touchy-feely pseudo-libertarian and enlightenment phrases, which is almost (but not quite) enough to make you forget that it's a list of dictates, and that the very first one presents a very interesting problem:

"MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE"

The current population of the Earth is 6.7 billion. To initiate the first dictate would require removal of 6.2 billion people, then they can proceed with maintaining it.

Long has the elite concerned itself with the rampant growth of the wretched masses. Even before industrialization allowed for exponential population growth they were thinking ahead.

"The English political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December[1] 1834) expressed views on population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly, and often faster than the food supply available to them. Commentators may refer to such a runaway scenario, as outlined in Malthus's treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, as a 'Malthusian catastrophe'."

In the 19th century, a movement grew from the revelations of Darwin and rapidly gained popularity among the ruling class who were concerned over the quickly changing technological world which would allow for those dirty subjects to run wild in ever more expanding numbers.

"Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.[2] Throughout history, eugenics has been regarded by its various advocates as a social responsibility, an altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier, stronger and/or more intelligent people, to save resources, and lessen human suffering."

From it's modern inception by Sir Francis Galton, eugenics has captivated everyone from the intellectual elite (H.G. Wells, Jack London, George Bernard Shaw) to the political. (Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger) It all sounds lovely and charming, until you realize that it was the justification for forced sterilization in the US (see Wilson link above) as well as Nazi Germany. No one should be singled out, however. The US allied with the USSR, and Stalin had slaughtered seven million in the Ukraine. Eugenics was an open, active, supported issue for the global ruling class until WWII made it fall out of favor. The global elite held the strings of both sides in that horrible war, but the elites did not retire their plans. They simply morphed...

"...Population control today - and the corresponding environmental movements - grew out of the post WWII shift from eugenics to Malthusian programs. The line connecting eugenicists to population control is unmistakable. Population reduction is being used by the elite as a weapon of war against competition, as an assurance of continued domination..."

Eugenics and Environmentalism: From quality control to quantity control

Yeah, and that pretty much sums it up. What a better excuse to slaughter a couple (or 6.2) billion humans than ecological catastrophe? Terrified, TV-mind controlled zombies will never dare question the blatant and utterly obvious lie: The people in control who cause all the problems are the only answers to them.

Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats: Occult Lovers

Both of these Irish luminaries were members of an elitist, occult ruling class secret society which combined alleged ancient knowledge with highly ritualized ceremonies. Maud Gonne was vital in Ireland's War of Independence. She is often referred to as Ireland's Joan of Arc. William Butler Yeats was the first Irishman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, and an enthusiastic follower of Aleister Crowley's magickal brotherhood. According to Yeats, (see below) Maud told him she learned about praying to the devil from her British Army father's books. She blamed her father's death soon after on the event.

"Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn, Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríde, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats. Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. Active in Home Rule activities afterwards, she was widely admired for her courage and beauty."

"William Butler Yeats (pronounced /ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and English literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation;" and he was the first Irishman so honored.[1] Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers whose greatest works were completed after being awarded the Nobel Prize;[2] such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929)."

Both Yeats and Gonne were members of...

"The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (or, more commonly, the Golden Dawn) was a magical order of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing a form of theurgy and spiritual development. It was possibly the single greatest influence on twentieth century Western occultism.[citation needed] Concepts of magic and ritual that became core elements of many other traditions, including Wicca,[1][2] Thelema, and other forms of magical spirituality popular today, are drawn from the Golden Dawn tradition.

The three founders, Dr. William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott, and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers were Freemasons and members of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.),[3] an appendant body to Freemasonry. Westcott, also a member of the Theosophical Society, appears to have been the initial driving force behind the establishment of the Golden Dawn.

The Golden Dawn system is based on an initiated hierarchal order similar to that of a Masonic Lodge, however women were admitted on an equal basis with men. The "Golden Dawn" is properly only the first or "outer" of three Orders, although all three are often collectively described as the "Golden Dawn". The First Order taught esoteric philosophy based on the Hermetic Qabalah and personal development through study and awareness of the four Classical Elements as well as the basics of astrology, tarot, and geomancy. The Second or "Inner" Order, the Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis (the Ruby Rose and Cross of Gold), taught magic proper, including scrying, astral travel, and Alchemy. The Third Order was that of the "Secret Chiefs", who were said to be great adepts no longer in incarnate form, but who directed the activities of the lower two orders by spirit communication with the Chiefs of the Second Order.

Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include: Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Theurgy, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Eliphas Levi, Papus, Enochian magic, and Renaissance grimoires."

The Spiritual Marriage of Maud Gonne and W.B.Yeats

Maud Gonne returned to Dublin in December 1898 and was with Willie [Yeats] constantly. Her renowned beauty was then in its full flowering, a beauty that her friend, Ella Young, described as "like the sun when it leaps above the horizon." "She is tall," Young said, "and like a queen out of a saga. Her hair is burnished gold and her eyes are gold, really gold." When she was with Yeats in public all eyes would fall on them, creating a stir in the surrounding crowds as people stopped and turned to stare: "It is Maud Gonne and the Poet. She has a radiance as of sunlight. Yeats, that leopard of the moon, holds back in a leash a huge lion-colored Great Dane--Maud Gonne's dog, Dagda."

One day Willie arrived as usual to see Maud. But on this day she asked him, "Had you a strange dream last night?"

"I dreamed this morning for the first time in my life that you kissed me," he replied. Maud then described her own dream: "When I fell asleep last night I saw standing at my bedside a great spirit. He took me to a great throng of spirits, and you were among them. My hand was put into yours and I was told we were married. After that I remember nothing." For the first time with "bodily mouth," Maud then kissed him.

The next day Willie found her sitting gloomily over the fire. "I should not have spoken to you in that way," she said, " for I can never be your wife in reality."

"Do you love anyone else?" Willie asked.

"No." But she admitted that there was someone else, a child, and that she had to be a "moral nature for two."

Then bit by bit, she began to tell him the story of her life. Some of these things Willie had heard as rumors, twisted by scandal, and had chosen not to believe. Now he was learning the truth. As Willie remembered it:

She had met in the South of France the French Boulangist deputy, [Lucien] Millevoye, while staying with a relative in her nineteenth year, and had at once and without any urging on his part fallen in love with him. She then returned to Dublin where her father had a military command. She had sat one night over the fire thinking over her future life, and chance discovery of some book on magic among her father's books had made her believe that the devil, if she prayed to him, might help her. She asked the Devil to give her control of her own life and offered in return her soul. At that moment the clock struck twelve, and she felt of a sudden that the prayer had been heard and answered. Within a fortnight her father died suddenly, and she was stricken with remorse. (Yeats, Memoirs)

Maud told Willie of her troubles with Millevoye and of the birth and death of her son. "The idea came to her that the lost child might be reborn," wrote Yeats later, "and she had gone back to Millevoye, in the vault under [her son's] memorial chapel. A girl child was born."

A few days later they undertook a silent trance, and both experienced a vision about which they agreed not to speak until it was over. Maud "thought herself a great stone statue through which passed flame." She was unmoving, enduring, perpetual, like the stone and earth of the country she love, fired by the life force and passion of those who lived on the land.

Willie felt himself "becoming flame and mounting up through and looking out of the eyes of a great stone Minerva." With his creative spark of artistic genius, he needed a form through which to flow. This form was Maud, embodying for him the spirit of the land itself -- of Ireland.

This experience confirmed that theirs was a "spiritual marriage," coming from "the beings which stand behind human life." They were to receive initiations for founding an Irish Mystery School. Theirs was not a marriage of the body but a sacred rite for linking the Bard and the Earth Mother. Maud learned in a trance, induced by staring at a talisman devised by Willie, that "the initiation of the cauldron or cup is a purification, that of the stone power, that of the sword knowledge and subtlety, and that of the wands a supernatural inspiration." For Maud and Willie these were the four suits of the Tarot, as well as the four treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan.

Booze and the Irish "Famine"

"..During the first nine months of "Black '47" the export of grain-derived alcohol from Ireland to England included the following: 874,170 gallons of porter, 278,658 gallons of Guinness, and 183,392 gallons of whiskey..."

(http://www.nde.state.ne.us/ss/irish/irish_pf.html)

It takes grain to make booze. It could have been food. This is just the booze that was exported, made from potentially edible food, let alone all the food for consumption that was exported during the "famine", starvation really. More information at that link above.

Profit first, as always, even in the midst of a disaster.

Sound familiar?

faeryharper plays "Eamon an Chnoic"

Lovely:

Mise Eamon an Chnoic

In the latter years of the 17th century and early years of the 18th century a Robin Hood type figure roamed the hills around West Tipperary and East Limerick. Edmond O'Ryan or Eamonn a Chnoic or Ned of the Hills was one of a small band of rapparees who championed the cause of the poor, the dispossessed natives and continually harassed the English planters. Many legends and tales are told of these men and their deeds have passed into the folklore of the area.

Edmond O'Ryan was born at Atshanbohy near Upperchurch sometime around 1670. His ancestors were extensive landowners, whose lands were confiscated after the Desmond Rebellion, one hundred years before. Now, rich planters from England owned the lands, and the Ryans remained on as tenants. This situation must have been totally unacceptable to a young lad, whose ancestors on his fathers side were the valiant clan of O'Riain, Chiefs of Kilnaloangarty, and on his mother's side the famous O'Dwyers of Kilnamanagh.

The young Eamonn was sent to France to be educated and study for the priesthood. However, he soon decided that this was not the life for him and returned to his native country. Soon after returning he was involved in a fracas with a tax collector who was making off with the only cow belonging to a poor widow who was a neighbour of Eamonn. Eamonn intervened and begged the tax collector to take some furniture or other items which the old lady could do without. It was all to no avail as the tax collector had his heart set on the cow. The two became embroiled in a brawl which ended in Eamonn shooting the tax collector dead. He was now forced to go on the run, hiding in the many woods of his native county, while a large reward was offered for his head.

When King James arrived in Ireland in 1689, Eamonn was among the many who readily joined his army in the mistaken belief that the Jacobite cause was the cause of Ireland. He fought at the Battle of the Boyne and at Aughrim before joining ranks with Sarsfield as he attacked the Williamite siege train bound for Limerick. Tradition has it that Eamonn was at the head of the flying column that attacked Williams train all along its journey from Cashel to Ballyneety.

After the Treaty of Limerick Sarsfield and his soldiers went to fight on the continent. However, Eamonn, like Galloping O'Hogan and many others, reverted to the woods and lived as outlaws and attacking the English in a type of guerilla warfare, in an attempt to drive the foreigners from their land. Many stories have survived to the present, telling the tales of how these men survived, how they robbed and plundered the new land owners, how they managed to evade the soldiers who were constantly searching for them and how they helped the poor and down-trodden in true Robin Hood fashion. We have no way of knowing how true many of these stories are.

Tradition is especially rich in the case of Eamonn. One story recounts, how, being short of money, he met a lady travelling and bade her "Stand and deliver". The lady burst into tears as she handed over her purse which contained £100. Her husband had left on business to England and this was all she possessed. Eamonn feeling sorry for her, handed back her purse, taking a half crown to tide him over. The lady was very grateful and on hearing that he was the outlaw Eamonn a Chonic, promised to ask her husband to use his influence to obtain a pardon for him.

A similar story concerns a poor man who lived near Borrisoleigh. Being appalled by the poverty of the man, Eamonn suggested that he should give information to the authorities concerning the whereabouts of Eamonn himself to obtain the £5 reward. At first the poor man objected strongly but after being assured that Eamonn knew what he was doing, he agreed. He told the military the spot in which they would find Eamonn and obtained his reward. Eamonn awaited the arrival of the troops in the pre-arranged spot, but had his escape well and truly planned. When the soldiers arrived, he surprised them, killing seven of them before he lost his pursuers in the hills.

Reuben Lee was a soldier in Cromwell's army, who remained behind and took to the hills with the outlaws. However, he hoarded up the money he stole unlike the others who divided it amongst the poor. Having amassed a considerable sum, he contacted the authorities and promised to hand over Eamonn in return for his own pardon. A deal was struck and Reuben arranged to have Eamonn at his house at a certain date. Eamonn arrived at the house accompanied by a man called Ryan who lived close by. As the three chatted by the fire, the Ryan man got suspicious of Lee and communicated this to Eamonn, in the Irish language which Lee did not understand. Eamonn kept a close eye on the window and spotting the soldiers coming down the land, he immediately jumped up, shot Lee through the heart and himself and his companion made a hasty escape.

There are many other such stories told of Eamonn, but in truth we really know very little about him. Apart from being an Officer in Sarsfield's Army and being an outlaw in the hills, we also know that he was a poet of considerable talent. His description of the life of an outlaw is contained in that famous Irish poem "Eamonn a Chnoic". Another poem attributed to him and similar in style to "Eamonn a Chnoic" is "Bean Dubh an Gleanna", a love song which may have been written to Mary Leahy, who is reputed to have married Eamonn.

It is also thought that Eamonn is the author of "Scan O'Duibhir a Ghleanna" a patriotic poem, encouraging young men to follow in the footstep of John O'Dwyer of Kilnamanagh in fighting for their land.

Much tradition also surrounds the death of Eamonn. According to the Cork Archealogical Journal, he was killed by a relative of his, O'Dwyer, in Hollyford. It seems that O'Dwyer gave refuge to the tired and hungry outlaw, and while he was sleeping cut his head off with a hatchet. He then placed the head in a sack and headed for Cashel where he hoped to get the reward. However, what O'Dwyer did not know was that Eamonn had been pardoned a short time before. On arrival at Cashel the head was placed on a spike over the gate of the jail. It was later taken down and given to Sadie, his sister, who had it buried at Curraheen near Hollyford. A skull was found at this site a few years ago and a memorial has been erected here. It is said that friends of Eamonn had taken his body from where O'Dwyer had dumped it and buried it in Doon graveyard. However this has never been verified.

From: www.doonbleisce.com/eamonn_a_chnoic.htm

(Irish, literal Translation, Anglicized version)

Cé hé sin amuigh, a bhuil faobhar ar a guth,
S'tá'g reabadh mo dhorais dúnta?
Mise Ĕamon a' chnoic atá báite fúair fliuch,
Ó shíorshúil na sléibhte s'na gleannta.

Is fada mis' 'muigh faoi sneachta's faoi sioc
Is gan dánacht agam ar éinne
Mo shéisreach gan scor, s'mo bhranar gan cur,
Agus gan íad agamsa ar aon chor

Níl cáirde agam, is danaid liom san,
Chun do glachadh mé moch agus déanach,
'Nois do caithigh mé dul thar farraige shoir
Ó 's ánn nach a' bhuil mo ghaelta.

Ó a lao ghil s'a chuid céard a dhéanaimse dhuit'
Mura gcuirfhinn tu féin faoi mo ghúna,
Is nach mbéidh púdar dubh á shiorshéadadh leat,
Ach go mbéimish (together) múchta. Trans. (le chéile)

Ó mo mhallacht ar'n díamhall ar dhúnmharraidh é,
Is go dóiteann sé 'n-ifreann (forever)
Ach an t'Úasal Ó' Ríain, Ó go mbaireann do h'anam
Ar dheis Dé anois is I gcónai……Trans. (On God's right hand now and forever)

*****

O! who's that without, with a trembling shout,
Now rattles my door that is bolted?
This is Eamon a' Chnoic and I'm drowned wet and cold,
From traversing the mountains and valleys.

I'm long perished in snow, and in ice and in gale,
I am famished, my life's nearly ended,
My land's without mark, and my fields without seed,
They're no longer my own (ar aon chor) Trans. (in any case)

I haven't a friend to call early or late,
From my family I'm hid and alone,
(Thar na farraige shoir), I must exile from here, Trans. (over the Eastern seas)
And must live in the land of the stranger.

O! my darling, my dote, what am I to do
But to cover you up with my gown,
So that powder and shot will not blast you alone,
But that we'll be together extinguished.

O! my curse on the fiend who has murdered my dear,
May he burn up for ever in Hades,
But my darling Ó'Ríain, may your soul be at rest,
On God's right hand now and forever.

*****

Oh who is without
That in anger they should
Keep beating my bolted door
I am Ned of the hill
Long weary and chilled
From long trudging
Over marsh and moor

My love fond and true
What else could I do
But shield you from wind and from weather
When the shot falls like hail
They us both shall assail
And mayhap we will die together

Through frost and through snow
Tired and hunted I go
In fear of both friend and of neighbour
My horses run wild
My acres untilled
And all of it lost to my labour

What grieves me far more
Than the loss of my store
Is there's noone would shield me from danger
So my fate it must be
To bid farewell to thee
And to languish amid strangers