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RAP POEM, VIDEO IMAGES WITH MUSIC IN PROTEST AT THE 3-MONTH INCARCERATION OF MARGARETTA D’ARCY, 79 YEAR-OLD ACTIVIST AND DRAMATIST, BECAUSE OF HER PROTESTS AGAINST THE CONTINUING USE OF SHANNON AIRPORT BY THE US MILITARY IN COLLUSION WITH SUCCESSIVE IRISH GOVERNMENT IN VIOLATION OF OUR NEUTRAL STATUS.
RANT FOR MARGARETTA
Diarmuid Breatnach
Forgive my confusion …
I was under the illusion …
or was it a delusion?
That we are a democracy,
not an autocracy
nor yet a plutocracy ….
That we citizens had the right
to decide whether a war to fight;
That we could choose with whom to ally …
Or was that all a cruel lie?
Listen now to the warning bell,
an Irish citizen in a prison cell;
Put there for taking a stand
against murder in foreign lands.
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
Well yes, it was all a delusion
and our government’s in murder collusion;
To murder planes turns a blind eye,
making accomplices of you and I!
Because the US is a superpower,
before them are we supposed to cower?
Are we to turn our hearts to stone,
to ignore the unmanned murder drones?
Surely not! Margaretta stands not alone —
we are of her blood and of her bone!
Listen now to the warning bell,
an Irish citizen in a prison cell;
Put there for taking a stand
against murder in foreign lands.
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
Our rulers fumble in a greasy till,
They never cared and never will:
Little women and little men,
Hucksters and middle men —
Believe me they don’t dither
to sell us out to the highest bidder!
Ach seo hé an scéal,
this is the story:
Ní chuirfidh muid fáilte
roimh – dúnmharthóirí!
Listen now to the warning bell,
an Irish citizen in a prison cell;
Put there for taking a stand
against murder in foreign lands.
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
Drone in the sky: someone’s crying …
Drone in the sky: someone’s dying …
If we allow it then we share the blame
so say we all: NOT IN OUR NAME!
Visitors are welcome from any land
but don’t come here with bloody hands;
Using Shannon as a staging post,
making our land a murder host —
we won’t pretend that we don’t know —
like Margaretta, we’re saying “NO!”
Listen now to the warning bell,
an Irish citizen in a prison cell;
Put there for taking a stand
against murder in foreign lands.
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
FREE MARGARETTA D’ARCY! FREE HER NOW!
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