{"id":1169,"date":"2014-11-17T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2014-11-17T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T18:37:47","slug":"we-are-not-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/we-are-not-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Not the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are not the enemy, the folk who pay the bills,
\nWho try to pay their mortgages, who themselves through suicide kills
\nBecause there is no hope to be seen, at whom developers sneer
\nStating “there must have been other issues too”, when journalists appear
\nTo show an interest in ordinary people plight, and question those who have claimed
\nTo have the freedom of this hand once upon their time as their aim
\nWho starved themselves for national unity, whose comrade Bobby Sands
\nDid not die so his client would kill themselves at their own hands
\nSo his kind would made their millions on homeowners shattered dreams
\nHouses badly built and overpriced, dodgy developers schemes…<\/p>\n

We are not the enemy, who protest at the estates
\nAgainst Guardai employed to protect water meters at our gates
\nTo charge us AGAIN for what we already pay for, and refuse to pay for again
\nThey are like the RIC who protected the Wracking crews, the Landlords Agents men.
\nPerhaps someday a dirty word will be to have a Garda once in your clan
\nWe hope not, but the way things are heading, that way that things often can,
\nLike the RIC, and RUC, they may have to be rebranded
\nTo cover the shame in their current name, for situations mishandled!<\/p>\n

\"Protesters<\/a>
Protesters hemmed in by the Garda at the Mansion House in Dublin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are not the enemy, the folk who pay the bills, Who try to pay their mortgages, who themselves through suicide kills Because there is no hope to be seen, at whom developers sneer Stating “there must have been other issues too”, when journalists appear To show an interest in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[571,130],"tags":[663,1319,1028,913,2345,1311,1201,1314,818,1313,1312,1318,507,1317,1316,1315],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-politics","tag-austerity-2","tag-bobby-sands","tag-dublin","tag-garda","tag-ireland","tag-irish-protests","tag-irish-water","tag-mansion-house","tag-politics-2","tag-ric","tag-ruc","tag-sinn-fein","tag-suicide","tag-tom-mcfeely","tag-water-is-a-human-right","tag-we-are-not-the-enemy","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-iR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3087,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/66-days-a-poor-tribute-to-bobby-sands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1169,"position":0},"title":"66 Days – A Poor Tribute to Bobby Sands","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in from watching \"66 Days\", the Bobby Sands film, which is a poor tribute to the man, a twisting of history, made to bolster the current regime in the North of Ireland. 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