PAROLE COMMISSIONERS STONEWALLING Fr. Mc Manus on the Gratuitous Mistreatment of Marian Price

Posted by Jim on December 17, 2012

 

 I came to America forty years ago. One of the early protests I helped to organize was outside the United Nations – to protest the inhumane and racist mistreatment of the Price sisters imprisoned in England. The late Paul Dwyer and I spoke. The other speaker was the father of Marian and Dolours, Albert, whom we had brought out from Belfast. For years later I would visit Albert when I went home to Ireland. And now, after all these years, I am protesting the mistreatment of Marian Price. This is the sort of thing that for centuries has ensured Irish-Americans retain an ongoing visceral fury at British injustice. The British establishment professes bewilderment at the “ intransigence” of Irish-Americans — that they are “still going on about The Famine, etc.” Well, for a current explanation for our fury, look no further than the mistreatment of Marian Price — made all the more outrageous since it is happening in the middle of the Irish peace-process : “For if they do these things with a green tree, what shall be done with the dry?” (Luke 23:32). A singularly gratuitous example of the anti-Marian cruelty is the apparent stalling, even stonewalling, of the Parole Commissioners regarding Marian’s “ application for release”. “Parole Commissioners” may well now enter the Irish-American lexicon in the same breath as The Famine, Gombeenman, Cromwell, etc., etc. … And don’t blame Irish-Americans , but the reason : gratuitous mistreatment of the Irish.

Fr. Sean Mc Manus President Irish National Caucus

P.O. BOX 15128 Capitol Hill Washington, DC 20003-0849

Tel. 202-544-0568 Fax. 202-488-7537

 sean@irishnationalcaucus.org