Yesterday's Spotlight programme highlighted the campaign, by victims group FAIR, against the Libyan dictatorship responsible for IRA murder due to Colonel Gaddafi's supplying weapons and financial support to the provisionals.
Willie Frazer, the head of Families Acting for Innocent Victims (FAIR), has been a very outspoken campaigner for IRA victims including many members of his own family; to republicans however he is a bigoted "Brit", an image not helped by Frazers prickly demeaner or past associations with unsavoury characters - but his suffering has been very real and is in the end deserving of sympathy.
After a decade in the wilderness Frazer and FAIR were recognised as representing a silent but very real and long suffering set of victims. Documents leaked to the press showing the breathtaking lack of concern for victims of the IRAs Libyan connection finally pushed the British government into action.
Now perhaps a few innocent victims of the IRAs international terrorism will be compensated or recognised. It remains to be seen if it is really a meaningful gesture and that nothing will be gained by provo-terrorist elements or their sympathizers.
The Provos of course speak of not acknowledeging a "hierarchy of victims" which is provospeak for "republicans are top of thier own hierarchy".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nnnv8
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
A Tangled Position
Andrew McCann over on A Tangled Web has endorsed Jim Allister for the June 4 Euro elections, not because he believes he can retain his seat, but to simply knock Diane Dodd’s off of topping the polls. Well I'm no DUP fan so Mrs Dodd's top-dog hopes don't much matter to me.
What Andrew McCann, David Vance and Jim Allister really want is to "wreck it" as Ian Paisley once said of the GFA, or at least to get a majority of unionists rejecting the St. Andrews agreement with an unofficial referendum by voting TUV.
"Like David and I, Allister is not interested in reconciliation with physical-force Irish republicanism, only is total and comprehensive defeat."
I'm not sure what point there is to be made from such an outcome, yes I know that they believe getting rid of the Provo’s is an end in its self, but it’s hardly going to render much of a defeat to republicans.
Making them work within partitionist institutions, militarily withering down the PIRA, their lack of support down south and attacks by dissidents; those to me are the only defeat - outside of a bloody and costly military operation Sri Lanka style - that the republicans are going to suffer.
Say confidence is shot and the assembly collapses, yet again. If the Provisional’s retreat back to their shadowy ghettos and their "old ways", blaming rejectionist unionists as they go, what will be the end result? Allister represents the old reactionary unionism, like Paisley of old, yet their reactions are always too late to do much but hope to reverse time to when things were easy to understand.
Now the RIRA are back in town the dismantling of the assembly simply adds Provo fuel to a dissident fire, hardly a great alternative. I'm no great admirer of the executive or Sinn Fein but the alternative is much worse and quite frankly unneeded. Wrecking the relative peace and stability of Northern Ireland for your so-called "principles" is a job better suited to republican hardliners and loyalist terrorists, not Jim Allister.
What Andrew McCann, David Vance and Jim Allister really want is to "wreck it" as Ian Paisley once said of the GFA, or at least to get a majority of unionists rejecting the St. Andrews agreement with an unofficial referendum by voting TUV.
"Like David and I, Allister is not interested in reconciliation with physical-force Irish republicanism, only is total and comprehensive defeat."
I'm not sure what point there is to be made from such an outcome, yes I know that they believe getting rid of the Provo’s is an end in its self, but it’s hardly going to render much of a defeat to republicans.
Making them work within partitionist institutions, militarily withering down the PIRA, their lack of support down south and attacks by dissidents; those to me are the only defeat - outside of a bloody and costly military operation Sri Lanka style - that the republicans are going to suffer.
Say confidence is shot and the assembly collapses, yet again. If the Provisional’s retreat back to their shadowy ghettos and their "old ways", blaming rejectionist unionists as they go, what will be the end result? Allister represents the old reactionary unionism, like Paisley of old, yet their reactions are always too late to do much but hope to reverse time to when things were easy to understand.
Now the RIRA are back in town the dismantling of the assembly simply adds Provo fuel to a dissident fire, hardly a great alternative. I'm no great admirer of the executive or Sinn Fein but the alternative is much worse and quite frankly unneeded. Wrecking the relative peace and stability of Northern Ireland for your so-called "principles" is a job better suited to republican hardliners and loyalist terrorists, not Jim Allister.
Monday, 18 May 2009
Ireland of Equals?
Why does Sinn Fein feel the need to honour republican death squads on their online store, their claim to be building an "Ireland of Equals" is simply hollow rhetoric with insensitive sectarian displays such as this. The action of Provo terrorists is nothing to gloat over.
If the DUP were selling UDA t-shirts republican hypocrites would be hysterical with rage, but the DUP don't nor should they; this Ireland of equals is business is completely bogus unless we are to fall in line behind the shinners.
If the DUP were selling UDA t-shirts republican hypocrites would be hysterical with rage, but the DUP don't nor should they; this Ireland of equals is business is completely bogus unless we are to fall in line behind the shinners.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Gerry & Gay
"I have formed an opinion — and it’s probably a Protestant thing — that the notion of having some sort of middleman isn’t altogether necessary," he said, referring to confessions.
"I think the Methodists are the best, but I love the democratic nature of the Presbyterian Church"
"I think the Methodists are the best, but I love the democratic nature of the Presbyterian Church"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gerry-adams-springs-surprise-with-a-protestant-view-of-religion-1674860.html
These supposed "revelations" by Gerry Adams, made on RTE's Meaning of Life show, demonstrate just what a pandering propagandist he really is, never missing an opportunity to increase his lefty PC street cred. And this gave the que to his supporters and counterparts to say "sure wasn't Wolfe Tone a Prod" or "Henry Joy McCracken was a presbyterian", blah blah blah!
Gerrys religious views aside; the simple truth remains however that todays Irish republican movement is a Catholic Irish nationalist one, filled with anti-Brit bigots, head counting united Irelanders (waiting to "outbreed the prods)" with rarely any Ulster Protestant supporters. But then the main targets for the PIRA during the troubles came from the Ulster Protestant community, whether they were RUC/UDR, unionist politicians or civilians.
"I want to be Irish as I am, but feel that Catholics do not allow me to. They expect me to move a bit of the way to towards being 'Catholic', or at least something different from what we [Protestants] are... the obstacle [is] what I would call the Catholic community, which identifies its total ethos as the criterion of Irishness.
"Then I have to say that I see the Republican Movement of today as a Catholic movement, with negligible Protestant input and consisting of people, practising Catholics or not, who are governed by the total ethos of a community which considers us [Protestants] less than fully Irish... since the 1860s, it has concentrated on the needs of the Catholic community and ignored the Northern Protestants."
Letter written in Iris 1988 by a Protestant Irish republican.
Monday, 27 April 2009
The Disappeared: PIRAs Inhumanity
A new site is to be examined in the hunt for one of the Disappeared of
Northern Ireland's Troubles.
The site is in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland, where the
remains of the Crossmaglen man Gerry Evans are said to be buried.
It has been claimed he was shot 30 years ago by the IRA as a suspected
informer.
It comes as the assembly passed a new bill to help the relatives
of the Disappeared and other missing persons.
Q: What separates the dissidents from the Provisionals? A: Time!
The PIRAs depravity is once again highlighted by their on going mental torture of those related to the so-called "disappeared" ie those murdered in cold blood, buried in bogs and fields all over Ireland. The victims of these continuing crimes against humanity, the relatives, are often traumatised and too tired to call the PIRA on their heartless campaign of cowardly human rights abuses.
But then the republican movement doesn't believe that any of its actions were wrong.
Saturday, 25 April 2009
Whos the real traitor? Republicanism examined
The Real IRA threatened the life of our Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, supposedly because of remarks made following the brutal murders of British Soldiers, remarks that involved him calling the dissident killers "traitors to Ireland". However if we examine Irish republican ideology and tradition aswell as their espoused objectives, who is the real traitor to republicanisms Ireland?
Republican tradition is the major factor in their ideology, physical force politics, aswell as clear unwavering objectives, has been/is the hallmark of traditional Irish republicanism. The objectives of Sinn Fein/IRA were the defeat of the British Army militarily, end of partition and the establishment of a 32 County Socialist Republic.
Well none of these obectives came to fruition, not militarily at least; Northern Ireland & the ROI still exist, therefore so does partition. NI is still part of the United Kingdom, Sinn Fein now takes part in the politics of two partionist states. The RUC was disbanded, but replaced by the still partionist PSNI, only with larger Catholic recruitment. The British Army was never forced out by armed struggle but via political wrangling and the Good Friday Agreement. And Martin McGuinness is deputy first minister thanks in large part to Ian Paisley and the DUP.
So through the green tinted glasses of traditional Irish Republicanism, which is the view of the Real IRA, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MLA is the traitor.
For me as a unionist however there is no virtue, cause, justification or right to traditional Irish Republicanisms actions or claims. Their objectives and use of terrorist "armed struggle" seeks to usurp the democratic will of the majority of Northern Irelands citizens. As an ideology or objective expressed solely through the ballot box, republicanism has a place in a democratic society. As a violent armed campaign of murder and threats, it has no place whatsoever.
Republican tradition is the major factor in their ideology, physical force politics, aswell as clear unwavering objectives, has been/is the hallmark of traditional Irish republicanism. The objectives of Sinn Fein/IRA were the defeat of the British Army militarily, end of partition and the establishment of a 32 County Socialist Republic.
Well none of these obectives came to fruition, not militarily at least; Northern Ireland & the ROI still exist, therefore so does partition. NI is still part of the United Kingdom, Sinn Fein now takes part in the politics of two partionist states. The RUC was disbanded, but replaced by the still partionist PSNI, only with larger Catholic recruitment. The British Army was never forced out by armed struggle but via political wrangling and the Good Friday Agreement. And Martin McGuinness is deputy first minister thanks in large part to Ian Paisley and the DUP.
So through the green tinted glasses of traditional Irish Republicanism, which is the view of the Real IRA, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MLA is the traitor.
For me as a unionist however there is no virtue, cause, justification or right to traditional Irish Republicanisms actions or claims. Their objectives and use of terrorist "armed struggle" seeks to usurp the democratic will of the majority of Northern Irelands citizens. As an ideology or objective expressed solely through the ballot box, republicanism has a place in a democratic society. As a violent armed campaign of murder and threats, it has no place whatsoever.
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