Originally posted on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/royce-de-melo-39172813_ireland-newrepublicanmovement-sedition-activity-7401790129117605888-BakP?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAALG3h0BmCuAbEV3iAYJNZHCQ1bHqD_qO9k
A “New Republican Movement,” you say?
There is quite a serious threat in their statement.
See Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRwUPYbloVh/
Of course, this video and these men raise many questions. Is it legit? How big is the group, if it is legit? What is their organizational structure? Are they being advised by someone from the North with experience and know-how to carry out sedition? Do they have access to weapons? What sort of arms do they have?
The sawed-off double-barreled shotgun and a couple of pistols might indicate a lack of arms in the arsenal… Or not. But things can start from nothing.
Regardless, the threat from this so-called New Republican Movement should be taken seriously, to be sure, to be sure.
Before anyone makes comments, people need to actually watch the video and listen to what the “New Republican Movement” (NRM) actually says in their statement. Because people can get emotional and jump to conclusions, understand that this group does not sound like a leftist group, but more right-wing. It’s anti-undocumented mass immigration and clearly anti-woke. It doesn’t sound like a New New IRA.
(Shein Finn, the former political mouthpiece for the IRA, is extreme left and woke.)
In the opening of the statement, the NRM member reading from a paper refers to Newry, Mourne and Down, a local government district in southeastern Northern Ireland.
But perhaps he is directing his statement not only to the local government of Northern Ireland (and the UK). Possibly, he is also vaguely giving a warning to the Republic of Ireland, maybe?
What could be ironic is that this movement, if it exists, might bring together loyalists and republicans in a common cause.
Let’s see.
–RdM