Talking about the European Treaty, Sinn Féin wrote in a pamphlet:
The objective is a United States of Europe with a European army. Irish people will be compelled to fight whatever wars the European super-powers decide to wage. Neutrality will go and compulsory military service for our youth will be introduced.
This was not in reference to the Lisbon Treaty, though. This is a from a pamphlet from 1971 (PDF), in reference to the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which were to vote on our accession to the European Economic Community in 1972.
Sinn Féin has never been pro-EU, whatever its claims, this year or on other occasions. Each Treaty we have voted for was in Sinn Féin’s terms the last stand for Irish neutrality and independence. Unless we believe that they were right on every occasion since 1972, warning of militarization again in 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2002, why should we credit their fears on this occasion?
