MUG SHOT: Do I look like a mug? am I a mug? Do'nt answer that, I will do it for you!

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Of course upon arrest and detention in February 1969 I had the usual Mug Shot taken, something similar to the foto here, although I was much younger then. But perhaps not until now am I considering just how much of a mug I had been to swallow all that Welsh Nationalist bullshit! You know Cofia Tryweryn and all that stuff!

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However, this is not the blog post to get totally critical and cynical about Welsh Nationalism, Welsh Cultural Nationalism in particular. All that and much more will be done to death on my blog postings through course of the year, up to 1 July 2009 and beyond.

I am at moment just posing the 'Mug Questions' in reflection that last week via a third party I was invited to participate in a TV Documentary already being made, of the John Humphries book 'Freedom Fighters'. However, my views and opinions were not called upon for the book so why should I bother to become media fodder for any TV interpretation of this book or whatever?.

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Not least when most unfortunately, this book has left I and many other Patriots with a sour taste in our mouths regards the treatment by this Western Mail styled ''Expert'' on Welsh Resistance and our Adfywiad Gwladgarol 1963 - 69? none other than a former Editor and present writer of WM Saturday Supplement Gardening feature? Another 'Journo Johnie Come Lately' to Welsh Nationalist Struggle, this time more directly via the Welsh Independance Party which by all accounts he then went on to contribute to it's demise, leaving a sour taste in a number of patriotic mouths in those circles? The rights and wrongs of this however, I am not privy to having not been a member of the ''wippies'', as after experience of 'Y Cyfamodwyr' going ''Cream Cracker'', sadly any ''Alternative Welsh Nationalism'' had for me lost its appeal.

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It is most unfortunate that this book by Humphries, much needed to save our ''sixties'' Patriotic Struggle from the shadows of history had to get so personally vidicative regards the FWA and it's two chief Commandants Cayo and Coslett. So much so that one would come to believe that therein is a deliberate attempt to demolish that ''Sixties Struggle'', in particular against the Investiture by diminishing the FWA and making nothing the radical role of the Patriotic Front and it's Anti - Investiture Campaign (further on in the book also marginalises Cofiwn). Suffice to say here and now that I shall not participate in making of this TV documentary, and would not only suggest that other Patriots involved in our 'Adfywiad Gwladgarol 1963 - 69 also not allow themselves to be used by the media. Ironically, John Humphries condemns Cayo and Coslett for their use of the media, when in those times there was little choice and Cayo & Coslett did a good propaganda job in their manipulation of the world media.

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Today however, we have the web which we can use ourselves, via Websites and blogs, also of course we can use film via Video Streaming and use of such as Your Tube. So it's simply a case that we do not have to lend ourselves to the establishment media but can present our own history and present day struggle. Not worrying about how subject matter is selected or interviews are edited etc.

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Whatever, that's enough on that subject as anyway I am writing a major review of 'Freedom Fighters' to be posted up in my Welsh Patriot Blog in June of this year. In the mean time, I must say that it's To Dream of Freedom published by Gwasg Lolfa which is still the best read on our ''Sixties Struggle''.

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I see Adam Phillips of Balchder Cymru has gone and set up a FWA Appreciation Society on Face Book, what's he up to now? Whatever, I am thinking of setting up a FWA - Living History & Re-enactment Society. Look out for our stall at Eisteddfod yr Urdd in May and at the National Eisteddfod in August.

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Further, we shall set up a stall in Caernarfon Castle over days of 1,2,3 & 4 July 2009, I believe Cambria, Ein Gwlad, Golwg and Barn Magazines et al are also seting up stalls too? Balchder Cymru will otherwise entertain with poses and posturing and Cymuned will give guided tours (yn Cymraeg) aound the 1911 & 1969 nvestiture exhibition.

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Possibly Cambrian Band will provide music and the poets of Wales will wander around looking lost and bemused. All the intellectuals of Wales will gather upon the 'Dias of Domination' to debate whether or not Petitions or Protest is best way to stop another Investiture of another Englishman as Prince of Wales? Not least CyIG will spend the day painting out all Castle and exhibtion signs in English, now I am not being cynical but the four days of fun has been given the name 'STORM THE CASTLE FESTIVAL'.

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Of course that meant no grants were on offer, so I am afraid we cannot pay for any performances, so you must carry out ptriotic performances for free. You know like it was back in the day when a real radical revolution was kicking off!!!

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Photo above is of our stall at the Fantasy Army Convention annually held in Florida, which this year we have had to cancel due to the spread of Swine Fever, which may also keep us away from Caernarfon in July, as it has been reported that there is evidence of Swine Fever prevailing there since 1969?

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Big Debates for 2009, 40th Anniversary of coming to end of Adfywiad Gwladsgarol' 69, is not so much should we have another Adfywiad Gwladgarol against another Investiture of another Englishman as Prince of Wales. But rather should that struggle be next time around of the Nationalist Right or of a Socialist Left? Indeed you may include in such discussion and debate, in general has ''Right Wing'' Alternative Nationalism failed and faltered so much, it's now given up the ghost and is virtualy dead.

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Thus should we not now focus more, not on any ADFYWIAD GWLADGAROL but more on an ADFYWIAD GOCH? Thinks!!!

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DISCLAIMER

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I have no intention of setting up a FWA - LHRS, this is all a foto fantasy for this post, the fotos are posed by models and the bullets are plastic bought from a fancy dress shop, honest! I hope MI5 has a sense of humour. However, whilst I joke here, I am not joking about FWA FASHION'09. See new post on the Welsh Patriot blog.

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POST SCRIPT:

Quite Possible Carlo will open Hafod Eryri with William Wales in tow, following this they may make a visit to Caernarfon for a staged huge 'Welsh Welcome' for the next future English Prince of Wales. So be prepared, keep eyes and ears open for any info on this and if you do, beat the drum call for protests and demonstrations. If at short notice do your best with a Flash Mobbing appeal for Agit - Prop Action Against English Princes of Wales; Past, Present and Future?

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It's all about symbolism, note Carlo grabbing May Day to promote his Green Imperialism in Wales (see on web), yes an English Monarchist not a Workers May Day. Such in mind remember that in late July 1284 Edward I held a Fair on Moel y Wyddfa before going on to Nefyn for the main Conquest Cymru Celebrations on 1 Awst 1284. I prompt and try to motivate again, but is anyone considering organising a Gwyl Yma o Hyd on and around this date? Or is every one just hanging around waiting for the Bala Eisteddfod, place of the biggest surrender of the Welsh in closing years of the ''Glyndwr war''. Where and when 400 former Milwyr Glyndwr got on their knees and repudiated their oath to Prince Owain and made a new one to Henry V.

COFIWCH 1284 - 2009 725th ANNIVERSARY OF OUR CONQUEST and Cadw celebrates!

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Please as you will see from below a deadline is a priority, Cadw sought to pass this under our Radar as a so called ''World Heritage Day' event but it does have another meaning and purpose. They might have got away with it, if it were not for a fellow Patriot informing me of below developments. Not a lot I can do about it at this late date, so I appeal to patriots to pass on this post as a link , and otherwise email, text and phone the basic info around as far as possible in great haste. At the very least try and motivate a patriotic flash mob of Caernarfon Castle on days suggested. TO NOTHING IS A SIGN OF DEFEAT!

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Edward I’s Royal Progress 1284 – Completing Conquest Cymru.
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Also Remembering Insult 1283 – 1983 Festival of Castles and with further Insults in mind Ebrill 1284 – Ebrill 2009 on 725th Anniversary of Construction of Caernarfon Castle. Is there little wonder why I refer to Cadw as ‘Conquest And Defeat Wales’, and this year they got a silver 25th Anniversary Medal to hand out to their promoters of Cerebral Colonialism. All enough to make me want to re-establish Cofiwn so as to get down to some serious anti – Cerebral Colonial Campaigning. If only Balchder Cymru could get their Act Together they could fulfil this need but no they rather prance about pretending to be latter day post ‘’sixties’’ wannabe ‘’Welsh Heroes’’ rather than get down to real radical resistence.

Most should be aware of the events of 1282, if not seek out my Cilmeri Rally, Cofiwn Archive and I’r Gad – Welsh Battlefield Campaign blogs. The following year 1283, Gwynedd was occupied, and mopping up operations in Eryri continued into summer against those few making a last stand in area of Llanberis. By the summer of that year Dafydd ap Gruffydd was captured, as were the royal children whose fate was imprisonment and a slow death by diverse means, none the less murderous. Then Dafydd III was eventually butchered at Shrewsbury on 3 October 1283, in the following year of 1284 Edward I had a busy time of it making sure that it really was ’End Game’ for any Independent Welsh Princes and Principalities. This meant the building of his great Castles in the former heartlands of the Princes of Gwynedd, this kept Edward I happy as he progressed around them, on 26 March 1284 arriving at Conwy and by April 1284 Edward was at Caernarfon to see his ultimate dream come true, the building of the Caernarfon Castle in style of the Walls of Constantinople, ever a symbol of Edward I’s great Imperial dream of grandeur.

Here, at Caernarfon it all starts to really get together for Edward I the greatest of Arthurian Enthusiasts but with purpose of course, for fast loosing their French Possessions the English Crown had been seeking a new identity one that would outshine the French one which glorified Charlemagne as their ‘Founding Father’. What was left for the English? ’Beowulf’ or maybe ‘Harold the Saxon’ or ‘William the Norman’, no such choices would not be ‘Politically Correct’. Thus who better than this ‘Arthur’ the Brythons kept prattling on about’. Of course there never was a real Arthur, this whole legend had it’s basis in religious mysteries born out of probably a pre – Celtic ‘Bear God’ cult, submerged by the Celts own religious beliefs. The ‘Bear Cult’ may have survived amongst pre – Celtic peoples, as the Picts of ancient Alba and Iberians of Southern ‘Silurian’ Wales.

Later in post Roman times doing exactly what Christians do best they adopted previous Religions to their own use, thus Brigad becomes St Brigit, and the most potent of primitive Pagan deities that of the ‘Bear Cult’ figure becomes ‘Arthur of the Britons’, as a symbol of Romano – Christian struggle over old Pagan ways being resurrected by the Patriot Gwrtheyron (Do not believe all the black propaganda lies put about by Gwynedd ‘media lickspittles’ against the founding father figure of Powys) out to destroy all vestiges of Roman rule and their Colonial ‘’Civilization’. To post Roman so called ‘’Celtic Christianity’’ the Arthur V Gwrtheyrn was as important as Saint David V Pelagius, get the picture? In the struggle for supremacy of the ‘Island of the Mighty’.

But I digress, back to Edward I who arranged the faked finding of the bones of Macsen Wledig (see similar treatment re an ‘Arthur’ at Glastonbury) in the foundations being prepared for Caernarfon Castle. Later, that month of April Edward I’s wife, Eleanor had a baby – the first of many English Princes of Wales, here that legend is born re him not speaking English so bamboozling the Welsh with the ‘Cymraeg Con’ the English have used ever since down to this day – to keep ‘Y Cymry’ in the ‘Cultural Nationalist Box’ with since 1979 the lid kept in place by grants of ‘’Saxon Shillings’’ . This all has roots in post Conquest Cymru for at Overton in 1284 and twice at Caerwys in reign of Elizabeth I and have done so ever since up to present reign of Elizabeth II. This is why it’s all so easy for ‘Cultural Nationalists’’ to cry Crocodile tears over Llywelyn ap Gruffydd but then as in the ‘Sixties’, get Cultural Nationalists as Edward Millward to teach Carlo Cymraeg and then on Carlo’s Royal Progress of Wales whilst visiting Caermarthen, Plaid President Gwynfor Evans shakes his hand.

Sometime during that summer of 1282 Edward was made very happy has the Royal Treasures of Gwynedd were handed up to him, he gained possession of not only ‘Y Croes Naid’ but also so we are told a ‘Coron Arthur’, actually a Coronet worn by Princes of Gwynedd, evidently looking too pathetic for Edward I, so he had his own Royal Jewellers ‘’posh it up’’ a bit! Amongst much else taken away by Edward I was a silver chalice part of the Gwynedd Royal treasure, this he presented to Monks of his new Abbey at Vale Royal in Cheshire Abbey (wonder where this Chalice is now?, if it still exists? We should demand that back for starters). Edward I spent some time in June 1284 camped at Llwyn Cwm Delyn holding court and listening to the grovelling submissions of a bunch of petty lords and chiefs that would underpin Edward I’s new ‘Vichy’ Style State Settlement of his conquests in Pura Wallia. However, for Edward I the icing on the cake would be an huge ‘Victory’ party with a ‘Round Table’ tournament at Nefyn as from 1 Awst 1284.

On Awst 13 Edward I revisited Caernarfon after which he would go on a Royal progress around his newly being built Castles in Northern Wales, and then on to Ceredigion, Aberystwyth and to St David’s cathedral to give thanks for the conquest of Cymru and Y Cymry. Following this he went on to Southern Wales to be paid homage by the Anglo – Norman Conquistadores there, and then over to Bristol for Xmas.

End story?

Not quite, as over the 18 – 19 April 2009, there is to be held at Caernarfon Castle a supposedly celebration of World Heritage Day? Now isn’t that convenient, to mark the 725th Anniversary of the Construction of the Castle during 1284, April 1284 remember was when Edward I was at Caernarfon to view the very same Castle it is now planned to celebrate the construction of to ensure that ‘Y Cymry’ would not rise again. But of course they did 10 years later in the Madog led National Revolt, they attacked the Castle, burnt the gate way and otherwise knocked it about. Then to top it, they topped the Castle’s Constable by hanging him at the Castle Gate, fantastic stuff! But can you dear Patriots possibly just consider a Patriotic Picket Protest or even a Dynamic Demonstration? You know with Patriotic Slogan Placards, Banners and plenty of flags of course and while your at it hang up some effigies of Carlo and William, and why not some present day Collaborationist Colonialists.

Anyone up for that? But who will organise it? Gwladgarwyr Gwynedd? Or maybe the ‘Balchderiaid’ Poseurs or ‘Cambrianista’ Petitioners? I hope some one does, I have done it thrice at gates of Caernarfon and am not doing it again, time for some one else to awake and arise to this Ebrill Insult 2009. Maybe we could get a 1000 present day Welsh Minstrels to stand on the DIAS OF DEFEAT & DOMINATION within the walls of the Castle, maybe if not a 1000, maybe 100? 50? 25? 5? At least one Minstrel or Poet, perhaps Meic Stephens? Whatever, do note you are not supposed to walk on the grass to reach the Dias, I attempted to do so with a replica of Y Croes Naid but I got tackled by the S.B. and thrown out of the Castle, ah well at least I tried, I wonder if any one will bother post Cofiwn and the successful Campaign against the Festival of Castles in 1983, that year we closed the Castle down with a Gate Blockade ‘Sit Down’ that became World Wide news, and that was before Caernarfon Castle was made a World Heritage site! Not for one moment am I suggesting the same is done again, but certainly why not a two day picket much publicised of course to get the message across to tourists and the World, that we are not quite a defeated people, well not all of us? But we will see if that’s true on above dates and between 1 – 4 July 2009 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Investiture of an Englishman as Prince of Wales.

Post Script:

Caernarfon at end of the day, is a long way to travel twice to in one year for ‘Hwntws’, so I suggest you give April a skip and instead on the 18th of that Month head for Merthyr for the Chartist Commemoratrion to be held there. Further, Chartist Commemoration wise do note that on thew 16 May 2009 there will be a major Chartist Commemoration in Llanidloes to mark the workers rising of 1839: Revisting Chartism in Wales, this is a Llafur event so seek further details from they ok!

PPS: maybe up to then patriots could be considering their own contemporary Anti – Colonial Charter Cymru, opposing Cerebral and all other forms of Colonialism, not least Economic and of course not forgetting Cultural Colnialism. This in mind I further suggest that one and all start to read up on Colonialism, Post Colonialism/Postcolonialism etc, maybe then all of interest meet up in Llanidloes to discuss & debate such a new Charter for contemporary Cymru; should it be a Nationalist, Republican or Socialist Charter – A Welsh Socialist Charter Cymru 2009? Think on that whilst your picketing Caernarfon Castle?
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Gethin ap Gruffydd Welsh Remembrancer & Adfywiad Gwladgarwr.
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31 Mawrth 2009.

ELIZABETH II ABDICATES, PRINCE CHARLES DECLARED KING AND WILLIAM PRINCE OF WALES, an Investiture in Caernarfon is to follow on 1st July 2009.

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APRIL FOOL!