Well it was seven in the morning when her door came up the hall
Her local politician said he'd seen nothing at all
They identified her husband and they dragged him from his bed
The cops had read the papers and they don't like what he said
For seven months they watched him as he followed them about
To document their antics and to hold them to account
And the only weapon that he had was camera in his hand
And now they've come to serve him with internment by remand
Now they've come to serve him with internment by remand
From the concrete streets of Belfast to Sweet Derry on the Foyle
From Urie in the valley to Tyrone's dark ancient soil
There's a dark and ancient practice and it still goes on today
If you hold the wrong opinion they can still put you away
No hesitance, no evidence, due process not required
Just the ramblings of a policeman or informers that they've hired
For evidence and to block courts they don't go hand in hand
Where Britain comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Where Britain comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Well it was seven in the morning when her door came up the hall
And the champions of democracy ignored it one and all
And her husband, long retired, was the target of arrest
For he spoke his mind too many times, he got things off his chest
When word got back to London and the Secretary of State
They said withdraw his licence, get him back across the gate
These unrepentant fiends, well they'd never understand
The roots of British justice, internment by remand
The roots of British justice, internment by remand
Well they'll say internment's over and they'll say it with a smile
While Irishmen still rot in jail, they'll never see a trial
And nationalism celebrates with heads stuck in the sand
While England comes to Ireland with internment by remand
While England comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Well the Brits said peace was imminent in 1998
Put up their institutions and pulled down the Irish state
Still they rounded up their critics like their fathers did before
With guns and special powers and the backings of their law
And the forces that oppressed us, well they never quite resigned
Just put on different uniforms and tactics were a thing
And their loyal courts of justice, still they hold them by the hand
Well M.I.Faith's replaced force, plots internment by remand
Well M.I.Faith's replaced force, plots internment by remand
Well it was seven in the morning when his door came up the hall
A board of Lithuanians had answered England's call
They requested extradition though they barely knew his name
Price had joined the NATO, his Britannia's dirty games
And they kept one there in squalor and his brother on remand
Away from friends and family and they tortured native land
Though they knew the case against them was a castle built on sand
Still they tore them from their homestead with internment by remand
They tore them from their homestead with internment by remand
They interned our men and women for eleven thousand days
Then with house arrest and curfew and deliberate delays
They can silence their opponents with conditions for release
No contact and no politics, no travel, no free speech
And if this was Putin's Russia, North Korea or Saigon
The great and good would jump around and scream that this is wrong
But there'd be no trendy outrage from the Irish middle class
While the champions of democracy, they're kissing Britain's ass
While the champions of democracy, they're kissing Britain's ass
By arresting and charging me the state was trying to send a message to others and that message is a very simple one If you disagree with the storm of the demonstration, oppose the British forces
Speak out against injustices and human rights abuses and are carried out to the police now You will automatically find yourself enabling anti-police process A dissident conflict jumping And you will find yourself becoming a target of political policing, traffic searches, house arrest, harassment and ultimately imprisonment
Her local politician said he'd seen nothing at all
They identified her husband and they dragged him from his bed
The cops had read the papers and they don't like what he said
For seven months they watched him as he followed them about
To document their antics and to hold them to account
And the only weapon that he had was camera in his hand
And now they've come to serve him with internment by remand
Now they've come to serve him with internment by remand
From the concrete streets of Belfast to Sweet Derry on the Foyle
From Urie in the valley to Tyrone's dark ancient soil
There's a dark and ancient practice and it still goes on today
If you hold the wrong opinion they can still put you away
No hesitance, no evidence, due process not required
Just the ramblings of a policeman or informers that they've hired
For evidence and to block courts they don't go hand in hand
Where Britain comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Where Britain comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Well it was seven in the morning when her door came up the hall
And the champions of democracy ignored it one and all
And her husband, long retired, was the target of arrest
For he spoke his mind too many times, he got things off his chest
When word got back to London and the Secretary of State
They said withdraw his licence, get him back across the gate
These unrepentant fiends, well they'd never understand
The roots of British justice, internment by remand
The roots of British justice, internment by remand
Well they'll say internment's over and they'll say it with a smile
While Irishmen still rot in jail, they'll never see a trial
And nationalism celebrates with heads stuck in the sand
While England comes to Ireland with internment by remand
While England comes to Ireland with internment by remand
Well the Brits said peace was imminent in 1998
Put up their institutions and pulled down the Irish state
Still they rounded up their critics like their fathers did before
With guns and special powers and the backings of their law
And the forces that oppressed us, well they never quite resigned
Just put on different uniforms and tactics were a thing
And their loyal courts of justice, still they hold them by the hand
Well M.I.Faith's replaced force, plots internment by remand
Well M.I.Faith's replaced force, plots internment by remand
Well it was seven in the morning when his door came up the hall
A board of Lithuanians had answered England's call
They requested extradition though they barely knew his name
Price had joined the NATO, his Britannia's dirty games
And they kept one there in squalor and his brother on remand
Away from friends and family and they tortured native land
Though they knew the case against them was a castle built on sand
Still they tore them from their homestead with internment by remand
They tore them from their homestead with internment by remand
They interned our men and women for eleven thousand days
Then with house arrest and curfew and deliberate delays
They can silence their opponents with conditions for release
No contact and no politics, no travel, no free speech
And if this was Putin's Russia, North Korea or Saigon
The great and good would jump around and scream that this is wrong
But there'd be no trendy outrage from the Irish middle class
While the champions of democracy, they're kissing Britain's ass
While the champions of democracy, they're kissing Britain's ass
By arresting and charging me the state was trying to send a message to others and that message is a very simple one If you disagree with the storm of the demonstration, oppose the British forces
Speak out against injustices and human rights abuses and are carried out to the police now You will automatically find yourself enabling anti-police process A dissident conflict jumping And you will find yourself becoming a target of political policing, traffic searches, house arrest, harassment and ultimately imprisonment
Contributed by Dq82 - 2025/1/11 - 17:21
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The Land That Connolly Warned Us
The clearest example of this ideological corruption is nationalism’s ongoing acceptance of ‘Internment By Remand’, the imprisonment of republican political activists using sham ‘evidence’ from Mi5 and the PSNI, which everyone knows will not be accepted at any upcoming trial but is used to take men and women off the streets and keep them on remand for 2 – 4 years at a time. It’s believed that over 11,000 days have been lost by victims of this tactic with constitutional nationalism turning a blind. The song was the first single from the album released on August 9th, the date of the original internment operations of 1971.
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