Protest the British Queen's visit to Ireland

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Protesting the Queen's visit to Ireland 2011
What do you think, will any protest against the British queen be effective. Will all main protests be screened, stage managed to starve the media of the truth?
This is the claim of those who intend to Protest the Queen's visit to Ireland this May 2011.

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Interesting quotes about Northern Ireland and the UK.
Did the British or Irish media, the BBC and RTE, ever seek to inform the public of the general public opinion?
With hindsight we can conclude that they only ever considered the media for managing public opinion, shaping public opinion.
The Irish do not want a British Queen in Ireland.
The British never wanted to be part of a sectarian Orange unionism.

For many years now, opinion polls have shown that the majority of people in Scotland, England and Wales want withdrawal from Northern Ireland.

(In March 1988 The Sun invited its readers to vote, by telephone, for or against the British presence in Northern Ireland. Embarrassed news managers were forced to bury the news of the result on an inside page - it was 45,453 for pulling out, 10,450 for staying put.)

A Gallup poll in 1998 it found 50% supported a United Ireland and only 17% supporting Northern Ireland remaining part of the uk

SURGE IN SUPPORT FOR IRISH UNITY

41% Britons favour united Ireland; Only 26% want Ulster in UK

Special report: Northern Ireland

Jonathan Freedland
Tuesday August 21, 2001
The Guardian

A verdict to strike a chill through Ulster unionism comes in today's Guardian/ ICM poll, which finds more Britons think Northern Ireland should be part of a united Ireland than believe it belongs in the United Kingdom.
In a finding that hits at the very heart of unionist ideology - which regards the province as an integral part of the UK - 41% of Britons believe Northern Ireland should be joined with the Irish republic while only 26% say it should continue as part of the UK.

For unionists, many of whom consider themselves British and refer to Britain as the mainland, today's findings amount to a cold shoulder from their fellow citizens. Only one in four wants the province to stay part of the country.

Today's poll sees the pro-unification camp extend a 15% lead over the stay-in-the-UK position.

It also brings Britain closer into line with opinion within the Irish republic - where polls show an overwhelming majority continues to favour unification.

A 1999 survey found 86% of Irish voters still wanted to unite the island - despite a massive Yes vote in the May 1998 referendum approving the Good Friday agreement, which required the republic to renounce its constitutional claim on the north.

Surveys in the US have shown clear majorities of American opinion in favour of a united Ireland, too. With today's poll confirming that British views are shifting dramatically, Ulster's unionists look increasingly isolated in their opposition to Irish unity.

There is even more significant support in grate britain for Ireland to reunify as a political entity.The British Social Attitudes Survey in 2004 found 32% supported Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK, and 45% supported a united Ireland.

"After we are gone, what will you say you were doing? Will you say you were with us in our struggle or were you conforming to the very system that drove us to our deaths?"

- Patsy O'Hara

"There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government."

- Gerry Adams, 1984

"We do not see why Ireland should allow England to govern her, either through Englishmen, as at present, or through Irishmen under an appearance of self-government"

- Padraig Pearse

"It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his countrys subjection to England"

- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

"British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom."

- Martin McGuinness, Bodenstown, June 26 1986 (AP/RN)

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