Another thing if schools are closing because of falling numbers and people are losing their jobs why do we need so many political hacks on the Beeb? Maybe they should sack a few and reduce the license fee with the savings.

mickhall, your line of questioning clearly shows that you are a fifth columnist counter-revolutionary bourgeois trotskyist capitalist pay-lackey enemy of the people kulak. You shall be dealt with in the most serious terms.

That said, I never did like Trotsky’s goatee. It reminded me too much of ole Vlad.

Now about this Adams fellow you mention, now he has set up a sham Duma with our allies from the Great Patriotic war, is he ready to bring his Party into the Comintern, will he accept the 21 points and can we rely on him to send the dissidents to the Gulag?

In all seriousness this is a good question. Reading some of the other threads on slugger, a lot of people, including republicans, hold the (justifiable) view that when it comes down to it the PSNI isn’t very good at it’s job. If those republicans support reforming the PSNI to improve it’s effectiveness, it stands to reason that the arrest and imprisonment of anyone engaged in illegal paramilitary activity is going to get pinched.

I still think republicans need to make up their minds about whether they want a truth process or not. They can’t insist that the Brits come clean and/or be prosecuted over their dirty business, and yet require that republicans should be immune from those processes.

Now about this Adams fellow you mention, now he has set up a sham Duma with our allies from the Great Patriotic war, is he ready to bring his Party into the Comintern, will he accept the 21 points and can we rely on him to send the dissidents to the Gulag?

The media need to be aware that they to have a responsibility in this huge moment in Irish history, and the negativity and search for a negative angle to this story does us all a disservice.

You, and of course Gerry Adams, are quite right. Back when I was in control of the USSR we dealt quite severely with journalists and indeed anyone else who asked stupid questions, or cast some kind of doubt on the incredible humanitarian successes won by Socialism. Journalists and always are clearly enemies of the people, especially when they dared to spread lies about crop failures, famines in the Ukraine, and so on. Back in the old days they used to be allies of fascism and the pro-White Jewish Trotskyist counterinsurgents. These days I see they are up to their old tricks again, trying to strangle the peace process and bring us back into a war scenario by daring to ask our politicians questions that they are uncomfortable answering. They must be destroyed!

Harris:

“The IRA remains an illegal force in this country.”

There’s nothing illegal about them at all, since they are no longer in business.

Harris, can you tell me when the proscription of the IRA was over turned either in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland ?

If they were an illegal force in this country, and both governments felt strongly about this, you’d be hearing a cry from them to completley disband.

I don’t hear both governments calling for the UDA to disband. I suppose that makes you think they don’t exist. Can you please try to advance yourself from this juvenile line of thinking ? You’re doing an awful job of being a chuckie apologist. I suggest you leave it to people who know what they are talking about.

The fact remains, they are still considered a positive force for making changes, only this time it happens to be for peace.

The IRA and their means are not wanted anywhere in Ireland; therefore they are fading away. You might try to give them some sort of credit for that; but in reality they are doing what civilized normal people expect. You do not praise a man for his choice not to rape his wife.

“you know its impossible for us to disband the army council, we have elections to fund”

or

“let us have a wee drive in the ministerial car before we talk about that one”

“Tony will slip us something for them in secret, but we’ll get f all from you on the radio, so good morning, ulster”

Yeah, if you’re a Shinner sycophant may be but to anyone else? I don’t think so. The IRA are considered only as treasonous who have only succecceded in discrediting the cause of Irish unity. But hey, let’s just ignore the fact that, without any mandate, they left people dead in a ditch. After all we need to move on don’t we?

The IRA are no longer intact, but can and will continue to remain active in supporting the peace process. As everyone well knows, all it takes is a few words to say the army council is no longer active, but is that really necessary? Allister and his ilk are reaching for something that isn’t there.

“The IRA remains an illegal force in this country.”

There’s nothing illegal about them at all, since they are no longer in business. If they were an illegal force in this country, and both governments felt strongly about this, you’d be hearing a cry from them to completley disband. The fact remains, they are still considered a positive force for making changes, only this time it happens to be for peace.

http://ingramsblog.wordpress.com/

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=81164&pt=n

Just read the hanzard for Tuesday,s N.I. Bill tochange the 6th March date
L.Sylvia Hermon was the sourest grape of all,she is doing the UUP no good by her begruging.
It was a good debate overall

Are derisory comments about the SDLP/UUP all we can expect when the DUP/SF combo is criticised? More ad hominem ranting by supporters of the parties that gave us the worst of our past is only a cynical ploy used to avoid responding to the issues raised. Here on the Slug it doesn’t matter a great deal but if it is a reflection of how the two parties are going to respond to criticism when in government, well that’s more worrying.

Having supported those who took it on themselves to murder their fellow countrymen means Gerry is a hypocrite of the highest order and his smug mug on UTV only made him appear shallow.

My comments were uttered out of my own frustration not Gerry Adams’. I am tired of the lazy journalism that has become the norm here. I make no attempt to censor anybody, certainly not a very entertaining Blanket contributor, likr youself. I just wish this cheap journalism was challenged more and occasionally have to justify itself.

Posted by JD

Good god JD you sound like Comical Ali, Saddam’s press minister, when politicians demand social responsibility from the press what they really mean is dance to our tune, and when they start speaking on behalf of the people that they will express their disapproval, it is normally just before they send out the Broys Harriers to send any offending journalist to the gulag.

I find what you have written both offensive and extremely worrying, for Adams is well aware there will be no opposition within Stormont to the incoming administration, bar the odd Green or Alliance party MLA. So what he is attempting is to intimidate the media, which will be in all probability the only organization who will be able to defend the public against any mis-doings within the new mockney northern ‘government’.

You may say this was not his aim, but why attack the media, especially the BBC now, for if anything the recent events have been portrayed more like a chocolate box. No he is laying a marker down for the future, and shame on him for doing so.