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Thread #52538   Message #808593
Posted By: GUEST,Brian F. Hannon
22-Oct-02 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
Subject: RE: Toome Eel Fisheries - Free Lough Neagh!
Around the year 1910 There was a court case that went as Far As the House of LORDs . For the many of you who dont know , that place Was and is the Highest Court in The Land . These LORDS , Barons Earls and others of the Landed Gentry Decided that the LORD's Donegal/ Shaftesbury Title to Lough Neagh and the Bann was righteous and that there was no Irish Public Right of Anything in the Lough regardless of Massive and Open Native Possession of all things from Antiquity . Our People Fished away, ducking and diving and all moves possible to continue their way of life . In year 1962 and also year 1964 Two Courts of the Queens Justices [ I am Being Sarcastic Here ] spewed the usual Drivel and do you know what ?? that not Twenty Years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of year 1948 [ not even Mentioned ] the Usual Drivel was being Spewed out again TWICE . I was there . The Fishermen Decided Not to Waste their Time at The House Of LORDs in the Cold Cold Winter of 1964/65 . Mind you that was near 1968 when we were Forgotten till Date . Visualise if you will their state of Mind . They had No Irish Rights and the only Rights were held by Five Jewish London Fish Merchants , the 1905 Lease of 5,000 years based on the 1661 Royal Charter . These Five owned the Tenancy and the paying of THE RENT of The Toome EEL Fishery which had just Lawfully beaten the crap out of them in the Courts of the Queen whose predecessor had issued The Royal War Prize Charter in The First Place . At this time one could smell in the Political Air a change of Events but this miasma of CIVIL RIGHTS InCOMING did not affect the Dickensian Courts of British Justice. Enter upon the Scene , the Belfast priest ,now of Toome who had been aware of the Court Case by talking to Fishermen NEAR TOOME . He must have at some stage told them to stop Kerning , Rymming ,Whinging and Crabbing and Girning ,moaning and groaning about their Long Lost IRISH RIGHTS and to be Practical and accept the UNACCEPTABLE . He urged them to gather their two or three hundreds of pounds apiece ,which they did along with about 600 other people ,their friends of the Lough Shore Communities and so bought out The Five [who it may be surmised also smelt the wind and took off ]and so They stepped back to Serfdom in under The Absentee English Landlord System of Tenure for the First Time and have been paying the RENT Since . All Well Homogenised by modern English Business Procedures so making the Reward for the Military SERVICES of a WarLORD palitable to their simple minds being Blessed by The Presence of A Priest ,an ancient Irish Requirement in any Project . You Know . They knowed it was wrong as they must have believed that "there was nothing else FOR It ". Even Today They Do Not Know who owns THEIR Co-Operative Shares but would like to, but he is not letting them know.