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I Am Standing On The Threshold Of Another Trembling World. May God Have Mercy On My Soul.

All Things Must Come To Pass As One, So Hope Should Never Die. There Is No Height Or Bloody Might That A Freeman Can’t Defy. There Is No Source Or Foreign Force Can Break One Man Who Knows That His Free Will No Thing Can Kill … And From That, Freedom Grows.

They Will Not Criminalise Us, Rob Us Of Our True Identity, Steal Our Individualism, Depoliticise Us, Churn Us Out As Systemised, Institutionalised, Decent Law-abiding Robots. Never Will They Label Our Liberation Struggle As Criminal.

Guns Don't Win Wars; Guns And Bombs May Kill A Man But They Cannot Make Him Follow Their Lead, Nor Will They Ever Coerce An Unyielding Man To Yield.

I'll Wear No Convicts Uniform Nor Meekly Serve My Time That Britain Might Brand Irelands Fight 800 Years Of Crime.