Walls Do Not A Prison Make

They said that it could not be stopped, they said that everyone else was aboard, they implied that we, the Old Volunteers of the seventies would have to abandon our principles and the cause for which our Fallen Comrades died, by colluding with the IRA/DUP in a sham peace and nonexistent reconciliation, centre at Long Kesh, or else our story would be falsely told by civil servants.

Our reply was simple, we the unrepentant Old Volunteers of the seventies, who still remain willing defend the democratic right of the Loyalist Working Class, to defend, by use of force if necessary, the democratic right of the People of Northern Ireland to decide their own future, are the only people creditably qualified to tell our story.

If our story and the sacrifice of our Fallen Comrades is truly worthy of remembrance, then it will be reverently remembered by Future Generations of our  Own People where it matters most, in our own localities, totally untarnished by collusion with our unrepentant enemies, who are still trying by deception to usurp the democratic right of the People of Northern Ireland , to decide their own future.

If our story and the sacrifice of our Fallen Comrades is unworthy of remembrance, then it will die in the grave with us, the Old Untarnished by collusion, Volunteers of the seventies.

Charlie Freel.