.. This post outlines the conclusion to my short pre Cilmeri Commemoration contribution, in which I did some ranting populist rhetoric to remind that today one must now more so than ever before be of an Internationalist Welsh Republican position. It really is quite rediculous for those who even just consider themselves to be so called 'Welsh Republicans' to be attending an event that remembers a Welsh Aristocrat oblivious to fact that these Welsh Princes were land grabbers and had their own bond population that were as much oppressed and exploited by they as any English Serf by their own Kings. Being some what a 'Devils Advocate' here but within there are 'home truths' patriots need to keep in mind. Sure most of my adult life has been active in promotion of medieval Welsh history and it's commemoration but, to be honest I have been involved in such largelly for patriotic political reasons. As far as Cilmeri Commemoration is concerned my main interest has been in using it as an anti - Investiture and thus anti - English Monarchy platform but hence being mindful of the contradictions I shall move to other commemorative platforms to advance this much more Radical Internationalist Welsh Republicanism.
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Sadly in recent years the Cilmeri Commemoration has drifted away from a sound anti - English Crown patriotic purpose, largelly via the sad pathetic alchaholic patriotism of ''Good Ole Boys'' (see Gareth ap Sion on Cilmeri in Cambria magazine of some years back) plus some careerism by crachach cronies and other such fence sitters and rediculous republicans who cannot make up their minds if they should be members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith or Plaid Cymru as often as not. However, it seems as if this years Rali Cilmeri owes it's successful organisation more to Adam Phillips and Balchder Cymru than the opportunist Fforwm Hanes Cymru aka so called Welsh Battlefiels Society aka Abaty Cwm Hir Trust et al? So it just might get back on track and rediscover the Patriotic Plot it lost in recent years, we shall see? I have not had much time for BC in the past but when 'push came to shove' they were more up for protest against Investitures than silly petitioning, as per Cambria Magazine nonsensical ploys to garner more subscribers to their magazine. BC however, still has a long way to go before they are the 'Barrio Warriors' our country needs and deserves but they are getting there, slowly!
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Just maybe considering all the poverty visited on the poor and weak by corrupt regimes throughout the World, be they Capitalist or Communist, then just maybe our Welsh Causes could be a vanity? When one considers the millions killed in wars, not just in Iraq and Afghanistan but particularly in Africa, not least the Congo where in 10 years five million people have been killed in genocidal wars our problems are insignifigant. Then of course there is Darfur and many, many other countries and regions that are kept off the front pages by our over bloated self centred Western & Northern hemisphere liberal concerns or greedy consumerism and celebrity-ism fed to people constantly. Of course the British media is controlled media, so thankfully we can acess other World media, and become more aware than we would be other wise. As for our home media, that in Cymraeg is stuck in some Cymric grant funded never, never land whilst the English Language media is more and more in existence to be so banal and neutrally 'British' it's enough to make one vomit, give me the BBC World Service and even BBC Radio Four for better World Coverage than what comes out of BBC Wales and it's Sports Wales never, never land.
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One cannot fail to see our own Cymric self centered cultural or other concerns as some what over self centered as regards 'more powers for the Assembly'. What? more powers to perhaps become more corrupted by family favouritism, regional clannishness plus the usual Taffia and Crachach lobbying and consultancies. Not least a Devolution Dilletantism that favours self careerism and personal economic advancement. In main made more possible because the people of Wales are ill served by it's media or suffer from being fed up with politics. The ''Masses'' not least the Welsh mini - masses are not even aroused into anger and thence radical action by the massive mess the Bankers put us all in, it seems that nothing can move the masses to action, other than advertizing which at moment is prompting them down to the nearest Super Market to fill their shopping trollies up with loads of Xmas goodies whilst most of the Worlds population are starving to death.
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Unfortunatly it appears most of our people want no more than the X Factor, Jordan and lots of binge drinking hedonism and kicking heads in by a younger generation increasingly boozed and drugged up into being pathetically unconcerned about their own futures let alone that of their children and communities and country......... Quite a rant, of course I did not say all that at Cilmeri cenotaph, I have enlarged upon my thoughts as penning out this post, the main matter I spoke on was along the lines of what point Independence, if much of our land is still owned by Anglo - Norman Lords, native large estate land owners, if any left? and by continuing cheque book conquest and colonialism be it by capitalists or Green Imperialists with their 'Wind Milling' of Wales that makes profits from use of our land for Wind Mill Plantations by Foreign based companies.
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Of course there is the British Army, Forestry Commission and Water Companies as well, to consider, they have a long history of expropriation of our land for their profits. The amazing thing is that Nationalists are not too concerned with all this unless culture and pacifism comes into it, but of course in main it is a Social and Economic matter central to the well being of our communities and people in the years ahead. All of which will be further deliberated more in due course in this blog but, in the mean time I hope my ranting gets you up to some Discussion and Debate on the matter, of course with purpose of stirring you into some really Radical Patriotic Action, maybe?
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