Margaretta D’arcy

As we prepare for the 2014 Bloody Sunday March artist and anti-war activist Margaretta D’Arcy was jailed for her protests  over the use by the United States military of Shannon Airport as a stopover point for US troops (not to mention a transit port for rendition: the extra-judicial kidnapping, detention and torture of people seized by US forces,  sometimes on the flimsiest of evidence).  

Margaretta D’Arcy jailed after protesting the use of Shannon Airport by US Military.

Down the years D’Arcy,   has campaigned for justice for the Bloody Sunday families and survivors.  Now, despite being almost eighty years of age and suffering from cancer and Parkinson’s, she is sitting in Limerick Prison.  

That fact, in this world were our liberal elite has lost its moral compass and sanctions war for profit reminds me of the words of another artist, Joni Mitchell.  In her song, ‘The Same Situation’, she expresses beautifully the inverted morality of our time.

“Still I sent up my prayer
Wondering where it had to go
With heaven full of astronauts
And the Lord on death row
While the millions of his lost and lonely ones
CalI out and clamour to be found
Caught in their struggle for higher positions
And their search for love that sticks around”

Thanks Margaretta for your non compliance.

To follow news of artist and anti-war activist Margaretta D’arcy still in Limerick prison, keep an eye on the Shannon Watch website.

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