Kilkenny Says No To EU/NATO Supremacy

A small turnout of mostly locals went down a treat with passers by.

In the last post from this Substack I arranged a meetup in the townhall in Kilkenny City on the issue of Irish Neutrality. Inspired by the hard work of other activist groups around the country spanning decades, I decided to organise a demonstration on this widely held stance of neutrality. I was pleased to see that other local activists turned up such as Luke O’Connor, Gerry Brophy, Michael Sullivan and others as well as a few members of the community. Also in attendance was fellow Substacker Michael McCarthy and long time supporter of my Substack, Johnny Dooley. The small group consisted of all men, which was actually refreshing to see in some respects. Getting men out on any issue in these modern times is hard. I am grateful to all those who attended and it was a great success for all of us on a personal level if you don’t dwell on low attendance.

The hour passed by without any issue such as disgruntled “opposition” or gardai with notepad-itis. The message we hung on the railings of the Town Hall was simple. “Save Our Neutrality” in the style of the now iconic East Wall Bed Sheet. The Success of the evening was measured on metrics some who attended may not have noticed. As we all set the world to rights on Tuesday evening chatting away, many people passed through the arches and pillars of the hall as well as across the street at Supermacs with great interest. The patrons inside Supermacs leered across out of curiosity at these men with Tricolours, Irish Republic flags and a banner that emblazoned the message of Neutrality at the heart of their beloved city. Three to Four people passed by and stopped to read the banner, verbalising their agreement with the message and shaking our hands. One gentleman, an Italo-Argentinian, commended us for our efforts and condemned the EU for its militarisation and dictatorship. Another man with a baby strapped to his chest made a concise effort to make his agreement known by stopping for a chat which was very encouraging. You could tell these people passing by were extremely intrigued. There was lots of people stopping to absorb the message and moving on. Lots of traffic passes by the hall at that time of the evening and nearly all cars slowed down to have a gawk with a few them saluting, giving a thumbs up or a general nod.

About half way through the hour we were all taken aback by a large group of males in uniform who passed by and adopted the banners message into their chit chat. One of these boys, no older than fifteen, posed the question loudly to his mates{ “neutrality, what’s that all about?”. To my surprise, his peers began to fill him in. They knew the score. Our banner in the hall brought their concerns to the fore. Rather than terrifying or traumatising young boys with talk of war, these men of the future were encouraged to talk about the traditional stance of neutrality among their own social circle. I was reminded by their reaction that British children do not have the same tradition holding their society together. Children in the UK have a stockholm-syndrome like acceptance that they will possibly end up in dead in Timbuktoo. Irish children still have that raw resistence to that imperialist mindset. Children are often far more advanced in their interest and understanding of the adult world, a fact that the woke bastards in our establishment know only too well and attempt to take advantage of. The credulity of our youth has been targeted by the woke mind virus for years now but seemingly to no avail. The kids that passed through the town hall on Tuesday evening demonstrated a mutated and resistant strain of the young Fenian masculinity that woke was designed to supress. These boys were boisterous, politically aware and patrolling their hometowns compulsively. A genetic expression of tribalism and pack mentality that we are starting to see rise again. Not an ounce of socially acquired autism between them. They weren’t drug addled scrotes either, they were energetic and alert looking. Kilkenny has hope yet.

It was notable that none of our local councillors appeared nor did the local contingent of stereotypical leftists, all of whom would have been welcome and will be welcome going forward. This attempt to create cross pollination on the issue of Neutrality is going to be a difficult endeavour and if it ends up being just ourselves going forward then so be it but I will state it here, I am not claiming Kilkenny’s stand against militarisation and loss of neutrality on behalf of a political ideology or movement and I will not see these gatherings become gate-kept, or even perceived to be that way. In fact I will expect all these various activists and individuals who agree with this issue to be there.

All in all I enjoyed getting out on the street again on something other than migration. It was a real pallet cleanser and the amount of stigma associated with this issue is measurably less intimidating. I can easily say that activism, in its most basic form of simple street awareness campaigns, is one of the the purest forms of connecting with humanity. Changing it. Preserving it. One hour of holding a banner in your town square is worth a lifetime of edgy tweets or Facebook patriotism. Allowing it to become habitual, a compulsion along the lines of smoking tobacco, is something I will always be proud of. It is second nature to me now to do something about the goings on in the world and the basic building block of this compulsion is meeting up with others in the town square and having a chat. It’s not hard and I recommend that you, the reader take up banners against the state in your own towns. get yourself a handful of steady reliable heads and get visible. You will not regret it.