Troops on Chicago streets remains a risky venture
Derry, Northern Ireland – For the administration of President Donald Trump, here is an edifying story to send troops to American cities: disorders, sectarian violence that increased with the deployment of British paratroopers in the second city in Northern Ireland.
Those who grew up with MTV on their big Toshiba screens, or Sony Trinitrons in the 1980s, should be familiar with the battle on civil rights for Catholics in Ulster, the “Six counties under the tyranny of John Bull” as Irish Republican composer Dominic Behan said years before. It was after the 1921 score that separated Ulster from the Irish free state on the emerald island following the Irish war of independence.
A video of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” of the Irish U2 group, turned live at the place of Red Rocks outside Denver, was in regular rotation on the wired channel in the early 1980s. The group’s performance remains a powerful an indictment of violence against civilians.
The song recounts the shooting of unarmed demonstrators of civil rights in the bogso district dominated by Catholic de Derry, or Londonderry, if you adhere to British domination, in 1972 by par. Twenty-six were killed; 14 Young people are mainly died of shots.
The stain of the bloody massacre on Sunday was relaunched last week in Derry when the trial began for the sole parachutist accused of the murder of two peace markers and attempted murder of others. He finally started more than 53 years after the deadly demonstration of January 30, 1972 when the Catholics were in the minority. Today, they have a slight advantage in the population.
In a strange touch to British jurisprudence, the former member of the army elite parachute regiment – who at that time must be in the 1970s – is only appointed to be called a soldier F. He was kept isolated by a black curtain during the trial before a judge of the Belfast Crown Court, according to a story of the Irish era, based in Dublin.
Families of people killed had worked for decades for justice for victims whose civil disobedience campaign protested that day against the discrimination of the Ulster government against the Catholic population, prison conditions without trial, unemployment and other economic issues. Annual commemorations for the victims finally obtained apology from the British government in 2010.
Something similar to Bloody Sunday could easily happen if Trump decided to send the National Guard to Chicago, which is currently at the edge of raids and street sweeping throughout the region by American immigration agents and customs application. After all, the city has already faced troops during the riot of Haymarket, Pullman Strike and the 1968 National Democratic Convention.
Some may remember National Guardsmen Guardsmen from Ohio’s Kent State University students in May 1970 during Vietnam war demonstrations, as well as those of the Jackson State University in Mississippi. The current political fracture becomes more and more worse than at this time of anti-war rage, where at least freedom of expression was tolerated by President Richard Nixon and his toads.
Or do the troops go to Memphis, Tennessee, before walking in the windy town? It was something that the president offered after obtaining a decline in Illinois officials, notably Governor JB Pritzker and the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. Trump’s decision -making on the issue of troops is as volatile as the wind blows that wash the wisp cliffs along the Wild Atlantic Way of Ireland.
If these troops go to Illinois, they will probably be a ticket to the Great Lakes Naval Station or perhaps the Fort Sheridan reserve center. Peaceful demonstrators from the Waukegan region walked in front of the navy base during the weekend, targeting the presence of glacial agents who are looking for undocumented immigrants across Chicagoland. The federal working group used military installation as head office.
Another step towards reconciliation and perhaps the reunification of Ireland. Some to whom I spoke during a visit to Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are optimistic, but not in their lives.
I’m not so sure. The injuries of the troubles, which saw the British troops undergo more victims than the volunteers of the Irish republican army and the brigades of Ulster, take place deeply in Northern Ireland, a country mired in misery for centuries.
The nationalists underline the plantation of Ulster, a decision of rich landowners and officials of the British government at the beginning of the 17th century to colonize the Ulster with the presbyterians. They confiscated indigenous Irish lands which were Catholic.
This ethnic conflict continued over the centuries. Adding to this is the famine of the mid -1840s, which led a lot to leaving for America, when the hungry Irish people were allowed to starve.
This, while foodstuffs have continued to be exported to Great Britain and other places in the Empire, the Irish will tell you. People in Ireland do not forget the wide story behind their heritage.
The same goes for what could happen if federal troops are sent to the Chicago region.
Charles Selle is a former journalist, political editor and editor -in -chief.
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