Christophe Dorigné-Thomson@thomsonchris
The Colonial Front Widens Further: Professor Aoife O'Donoghue & the Irish Academic Enablement of English Colonial Rule in Scotland
@qubschooloflaw @QUBelfast
Let's continue exposing how the English colonial state working through the colonised Scottish Parliament and colonial operators is trying to keep Scotland in shackles as a colony against international law and UN decolonisation realities.
The Decisive Rupture & the Full Exposure of the Colonial Front
For Scotland, held under English colonial rule, the situation has crystallised into a direct juridical confrontation: international law & the United Nations decolonisation framework versus English colonial law and the operational machinery of the colonial state imposed upon Scotland. The formal lodging with the UN Secretary-General & the UN Human Rights Council of United Nations General Assembly document A/HRC/61/NGO/210 (x.com/i/status/20339…), identifying Scotland as an English colony, constitutes a decisive rupture in that confrontation. It strips away every procedural fiction, every academic credential, every carefully constructed legal hedge, and places Scotland's colonial condition formally within the international legal system that was built precisely to address it.
Those academics convened before @ScotParl to assert that Scots cannot be free now stand exposed as ideological functionaries of English colonial rule: @NikosSkoutaris, @AileenMcHarg, @alanjrenwick, Lea Raible, Elisenda Casanas Adam, @ProfTomkins, Stephen Tierney, @McEwen_Nicola, Ailsa Henderson (@EdinburghPIR @ScotVoting @TheUnionSurvey), Andrew Blick (@Kingspol_econ @KingsCollegeLon), André Lecours (@andre_lecours @uOttawa @UOttawaPoliSci) and now, with a particular irony that demands to be confronted rather than softened, Professor Aoife O'Donoghue of Queen's University Belfast, an Irish scholar of international law who has appeared before the Scottish Parliament to perform precisely the intellectual function that British colonial scholarship once performed against Irish freedom: formal recognition of a right in abstract terms combined with its systematic substantive denial.
The same verdict applies to the MSPs behind the colonial report SP Paper 1030: @ClareAdamsonSNP, @jhalcrojohnston, @GeorgeAdam, @NeilBibby, @KeithBrownSNP, @PatrickHarvie, @RealStephenKerr ; every one of whom participated in a process whose entire framework was structured to keep Scotland inside the constitutional prison of the English colonial state, differing only on how comfortable that prison should be made to appear.
The Particular Scandal of Irish Academic Collaboration with English Colonial Rule
Professor Aoife O'Donoghue is Professor of International Law and Global Governance at Queen's University Belfast; an institution located in the northern portion of Ireland that remains under British constitutional authority, itself a product of the English colonial settlement of Ireland, the partition of 1921, and the ongoing constitutional consequences of centuries of English colonial domination of the island of Ireland. She has held positions at Durham University, an English university at the centre of the British academic establishment and operates within the British higher education funding framework, whose priorities & assumptions shape the constitutional common sense of every scholar embedded within it.
The particular scandal of O'Donoghue's intervention cannot be softened by courtesy. Ireland is a former English colony. The Irish people achieved their independence through a war of liberation that O'Donoghue's own submission acknowledges was "unconstitutional in UK constitutional terms". Ireland was internationally recognised despite and against the colonial state's constitutional position.