dereko1969
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I'm no fan of Sinn Féin but following Gerry Adams' bizarre decision to blame the victims of his organisations killings with the assistance of "someone" in the Garda surely if they want to play a part in the future of this State then he needs to go and be replaced by either Mary Lou McDonald or Pearse Doherty.
Frankly, if he stayed it would probably harm their electoral chances, which I wouldn't mind too much, but allied to his unbelievable claims of ignorance of sexual abuse by high level members of his organisation surely he needs to go?
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...-officers-laissez-faire-over-safety-1.1616679
he was too busy not being in the ira to notice any of that stuff.
I'm no fan of Sinn Féin but following Gerry Adams' bizarre decision to blame the victims of his organisations killings with the assistance of "someone" in the Garda surely if they want to play a part in the future of this State then he needs to go and be replaced by either Mary Lou McDonald or Pearse Doherty.
if you are no fan of sinn fein then why do you care in the least if he goes or not?...or indeed who replaces him!
I'm no fan of Sinn Féin but following Gerry Adams' bizarre decision to blame the victims of his organisations killings with the assistance of "someone" in the Garda surely if they want to play a part in the future of this State then he needs to go and be replaced by either Mary Lou McDonald or Pearse Doherty.
if you are no fan of sinn fein then why do you care in the least if he goes or not?...or indeed who replaces him!
Because I think it's important for Democracy that there is a credible opposition.
if you are no fan of sinn fein then why do you care in the least if he goes or not?...or indeed who replaces him!
I'm not one for drawing moral equivalences; I'd never suggest that the RUC were on par with the IRA or UVF etc. but they were far from clean and whatever levels of collusion that went on between IRA terrorists murders and the Gardaí it was nothing when compared to what went on between the RUC & British Army (and associated "security forces") and Loyalist terrorist groups.I don't know why Sinn Fein/IRA are so gagging for a truth and reconciliation tribunal. Do they really think that an independent observer is going to equate the terrorist murder of two RUC men with the work which these officers were doing in carrying out their duty.
Don't like it at all. We can see from this blog how people have totally different slants on the "truth". There is no absolute truth and its pursuit can only be divisive.What do others think of the notion?
Don't like it at all. We can see from this blog how people have totally different slants on the "truth". There is no absolute truth and its pursuit can only be divisive.
For example, Purple observes that collusion by the Gardaí in vile crimes was not on the same scale as that of the RUC. That may be true but has he ever stopped to ask the following question? How was it that a handful of housing estates in West Belfast and the Bogside were able to sustain a 30 year sophisticated guerrilla campaign against all the might of the British security apparatus? Simply not possible without the collusion, support and provision of materiel from hostile elements in the establishment of a neighbouring country. Haughey, Blaney, Boland, Captain Kelly etc. made sure the Provos got off to a flying start and similar elements in high places in the 26 counties were essential to sustaining them for the next 30 years. Will these people be part of the putative truth and reconciliation process?
++1the proposed truth & reconciliation is just another part of sinn fein's "peace process" industry. Judge smithwick did not believe that the ira witnesses were truthful in their evidence to him so why would they suddenly change in a t & r process? As we know grizzly would not know the "truth" if it shot him in the head.
Listening to grizzly and padraig mac lochliann trying to put the blame om the two ruc officers i wondered if they have the same view in relation to the murder of garda gerry mccabe. Was he somehow responsible for his own death? Mac lochlainn spoke about the "war" but when did the ira declare war on the people of the republic?
Don't like it at all. We can see from this blog how people have totally different slants on the "truth". There is no absolute truth and its pursuit can only be divisive.
I'm not a fan of the T&R idea. I do think that the IRA was supported and run from more than "handful of housing estates in West Belfast and the Bogside", it had considerable support from a minority all over this country.Don't like it at all. We can see from this blog how people have totally different slants on the "truth". There is no absolute truth and its pursuit can only be divisive.
For example, Purple observes that collusion by the Gardaí in vile crimes was not on the same scale as that of the RUC. That may be true but has he ever stopped to ask the following question? How was it that a handful of housing estates in West Belfast and the Bogside were able to sustain a 30 year sophisticated guerrilla campaign against all the might of the British security apparatus? Simply not possible without the collusion, support and provision of materiel from hostile elements in the establishment of a neighbouring country. Haughey, Blaney, Boland, Captain Kelly etc. made sure the Provos got off to a flying start and similar elements in high places in the 26 counties were essential to sustaining them for the next 30 years. Will these people be part of the putative truth and reconciliation process?
We are indeed in danger of going off tangent here. You seem like a reasonable person but that is such a distortion of what was happening I feel I have to correct it....whole sections of the Nationalist/Catholic population were terrorised by militant groups with the active support of the state...
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