18 May 2009

MEIBION GLYNDWR and the Mewnlifiad Arson War 1979 - 1993. Meibion Glyndwr Colour Party.

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Sorry to disappoint you but no photos of Meibion Glyndwr's ''Arsonists'', but posted up here are two photos of the MG Colour Party at an Abergele Martyrs Commemoration. As far as I am aware there were no actual links between they and MG, they were a kind of tribute group, much like today's Balchder Cymru FWA Tribute Colour Party. No doubt the latter TCP will get as much hassled by the police as the earlier TCP sooner as later.
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I suggest patriots learn from our history of struggle especially with a 40th anniversary Abergele Martyrs Commemoration on the way being organised by BC and Cymru 1400? I have no doubt that the MI5 Wales/Cymru Squad based at Cardiff will have a keen interest in this event, so take care ok! DO NOT BE DAFT!!!
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My main purpose here with an MG/MGCP/Mewnlifiad post is in main as part of my Abergele Martyrs tribute this and next month , in a number of my blogs. It is also to note myself as much as you that in due course I shall be carrying out a 'look back' on the period of this 'Mewnlifiad Issue', and all associated with it including Cymdeithas Cyfamod. Not least regards 'Operation Tan' and it's particular targeting of Cofiwn the Cymric Consciousness Campaigning Movement.
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John Humphries in his book Freedom Fighters has given a good account of the MG 'Holiday Cottage Campaign' and there is no doubt that of all such secret underground campaigns, this was the most successful. The jury is still out as far as the FWA/MAC 'War', and their military campaigns against the 1969 Investiture puting off another Caernarfon Investiture? I say MG was ''successful'' in main because it's activists were for most part never caught, neither was it's leadership as in case of the FWA & MAC. However, it still remains a mystery as to why MG called off their campaign, and we may speculate as much as we like but perhaps we will never know the truth? As with the FWA & MAC however, we may assess what and if were the achievements of the MG ''Arson War'', indeed if it was successful or not?
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Today the 'Mewnlifiad' has become the 'M' word for Cultural Nationalists, it also appears as if terms as ''White Raj'' and ''White Settlers'' are no longer 'acceptable' in post Devolution 'Coalition one Wales WAG'. This is largely due to fact that those who opposed English Incomer 'Socio - Economic' Cultural Colonialism were often associated by their enemies with the Ku Klux Klan. It is interesting to note that Montana has also in contemporary times witnessed an 'Arson War', where it is believed 'White Supremacists' have been busy burning the properties of ethnic German 'Religious Settlers. Somewhat bizzare but true Montana for another reason came into the headlines in connection with the last 'Mewnlifiad Furore' that led to the birth of Cymuned and which the Welsh Independence Party foolishly got embroiled in, as foolish has it had been for Cymdeithas Cyfamod in the holiday cottage burning years of Meibion Glyndwr.
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Suffice to leave all this, at this point but it is an area I shall return too. I shall however, leave you with very relevant 'food for thought' mentioned on page 159 of Johm Humphries book but not seen in a more historical context. But a 'Welsh History Buff' as I am, I find it more than just a little interesting that the first cottage burnt in the MG 'Arson War' was near Nefyn on the Llyn Peninsula. It was of course at Nefyn on and about 1 August 1284 that Edward I held his great victory 'Conquest Cymru' celebrations, and do note that 2009, is the 725 anniversary year of this event.
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SO WHY NOT COMMEMORATE FACT THAT WE FIGHT ON!
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I have wrote up on this in posts else where with related fotos of historic interest, I have also suggested to Gwladgarwyr Gwynedd what a great opportunity to hold at Nefyn a 'Gwyl Yma o Hyd' but there seems no interest from they in doing so. However, I appeal to all Gwladgarwyr Cymru to tour the area on and about 1 Awst 2009 to visit 'Cae Iorwerth' in Nefyn, also maybe climb atop Garn Boduon with flags of Welsh Freedom raised high over 'Edward's Field', now that's what I call a real Political Statement & Patriotic Gesture of DEFIANCE! YMA O HYD!
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I shall in due course return to these matters.
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G.ap Gruffydd.