Join THE CAUSE for REAL PEACE with JUSTICE in Ireland, NOW ! - http://www.causes.com/DIASPORADOES Traditions as the Basis for Unity within THE CAUSE The Celtic nature historically, has had difficulties with rules, regulations and authority. This has presented many difficulties within our tradition, when confronted with the unified, regulated, organized attacks of military cultures like the Roman and later British Empires. While on the other hand because of its diverse nature, it has helped preserve many of our traditions and the Celtic Spirit. However in Ireland it has become clear from our history, that if we are to achieve a peace, which has become clearly dependent on justice, for all genuine intelligent humane people of goodwill on the island, that a certain unity of approach to the solution is required to achieve THE CAUSE of real peace. With the above in mind, I have borrowed a set of traditions, rather than rules and regulations from other groups, as a basis for community unity serving THE CAUSE. THE CAUSE is not allied with any organization or denomination or particular set of beliefs, religions or atheists. We humbly submit from the hard lessons of experience, that THE CAUSE does not surrender to anything or anybody other than the Celtic Spirit. 1. The Unity of Ireland should come first; personal opinions are secondary to the unity of Ireland's cause. 2. For the purpose of our CAUSE there is an ultimate authority a loving Irish Spirit as it may express itself in our Cause communities. Our Admins are just trusted servants of the THE CAUSE they do not govern. 3. The only requirement for THE CAUSE membership is an honest desire for REAL PEACE based on justice in Ireland. 4. Each community is autonomous with the exception of matters affecting other THE CAUSE of Ireland as a whole. 5. Each group has but one primary purpose to create justice rather than oppression to enable THE CAUSE of genuine Peace in Ireland. 6. Each CAUSE community ought never endorse, finance or lend THE CAUSE name to any related activity or outside political projects or people, in case problems of politics, money, property and ego distract us from our CAUSE. 7. Every CAUSE community ought to fully support itself, declining contributions from outside the group. 8. THE CAUSE should always remain non-professional but services we provide to the community may employ specifically trained workers. 9. THE CAUSE, should never be formally organized with leaders, rules and regulations but we can create boards of service, committees directly answerable to those communities they serve. 10. THE CAUSE in its totality has no particular formal opinion on outside matters. Therefore the name of THE CAUSE ought never be dragged into controversy publicly 11. We all need to maintain personal humility and service to the THE CAUSE as part of presentation with any public media. 12. Humility and service are the Celtic foundation with all our traditions rather than regulation or rules, to remind us always to place principles before personalities and to prevent any personality being placed on a pedestal to the detriment of the CAUSE. Submitted for group discussion and approval this day the 21st of September 2010 A.D. Join THE CAUSE for REAL PEACE with JUSTICE in Ireland, NOW !