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YouTube Team,

Enough with the censorship. You’ve removed my video, accusing it of “violent extremism,” but the real violence in this situation is the systematic erasure of Irish history. The video was a creative edit, using footage from a movie paired with music to reflect the struggle of the Irish people against centuries of British occupation and terror. I wasn’t promoting terrorism or violence, I was showing the truth. The fact that you can’t handle that truth is the real issue here.

Let’s get one thing straight: The real violent extremists are not the Irish Republicans who fought back against British oppression — they are the British Empire and its loyalist allies, who have a long, blood-soaked history of oppressing, killing, and exploiting the Irish. The Irish people didn’t start the violence. They were pushed to it after centuries of murder, displacement, and brutal oppression from an occupying force.

In the 1920s alone, over 1,000 civilians were killed by the British in their efforts to maintain control over Ireland. The Belfast Pogrom of 1920 saw 300 Catholics murdered by loyalist militias with the full backing of the British military. And this isn’t just some distant past — the British were responsible for hundreds more deaths in the 1970s, with over 300 civilian deaths linked directly to British forces. Bloody Sunday, where British soldiers murdered 14 unarmed civilians, is just one example of this ongoing campaign of terror.

Don’t even try to tell me that the IRA were the real extremists. They were fighting for survival, fighting back against the people who were killing their families, burning their homes, and destroying their way of life. The IRA’s actions were a response to British violence — they were not the instigators of it. They were defending their country, their people, and their rights from those who were systematically crushing them.

YouTube, you’ve decided to censor a video that reflected a legitimate historical struggle. It wasn’t glorifying terrorism. It was a creative effort to honor those who fought for Ireland’s freedom. If you can show footage of British military actions and loyalist violence without any issue, then why is it that when the Irish side of the story is told — the side of the people who were actually attacked — it gets flagged as "violent extremism"?

The real violent extremists are those who murdered thousands of innocent people in Ireland, those who starved, maimed, and enslaved the Irish people for centuries, and those who backed terrorist militias to further their imperialistic goals. The IRA’s goal wasn’t violence for violence’s sake — it was freedom. It was defending their land, their families, and their culture from an oppressive force that sought to destroy them.

Do not take this down YouTube.