Anyone who thinks that woolly-brained wannabe unionist had secret contacts and a deal on the go during the hunger-strike needs their head examined.

The daft old bastard wouldn’t know if his hair was on fire.

one begins to wonder if perhaps “Rusty Nail” might be a pseudonym for another blogger with troublesome religious delusions

There is nothing delusional in believing that Gerry Adams is the Antichrist.

Gerry is AN antichrist at the very least for rejecting the ways of Christ [in opposing imperialism]. His path opposes Christ’s path by accepting the ways of imperialism as sacrosanct and rejecting Christianity as unworkable. So he is opposed to Christ and rejects Christ’s ways. So how could he not be an antichrist. The Antichrist is defined in such literature as the book by that name by Friedrich Nietzsche.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist

There’s not a lot of literature on being the actual Antichrist as you may expect so it really boils down to seeking coincidences that tie Gerry Adams to the Book of Revelation.

I think that people are confused about Gerry Adams. They ask, how could one of the leaders of the Northern Ireland peace process be opposed to Jesus Christ? The prophecies are very clear that there is a time when the Antichrist was not considered to be the Antichrist, so Adams may even be regarded as a good man for a time, but the period does not last forever. This comes from the verse, “he [i.e. the Antichrist] once was, now is not, and yet will come” (Rev 17:8).

The Antichrist who “once was, now is not” is a reference to the fact that Adams was acting once as the Antichrist (i.e. during the Troubles) and “now” is no longer acting in that way. “Yet will come” indicates that before the prophecies will end, he will return to being the Antichrist, or opposed to Christ. That has happened now with his involvement in the cover up of the Paul Quinn murder.

First of all, I believe that Gerry Adams is the Antichrist because of the coincidence that his name comes out at 666 on my numeric alphabet.

Second of all, due to another pertinent coincidence his name contains “Adam”, the name of the first man, and from a theological point of view, this adds much to the basis of him being the Antichrist. Adam coincidentally means ‘man’ in Hebrew, and the number of the beast is specifically described as “man’s number” (Rev 13:18).

These are extraordinary coincidences and not to be dismissed by any means by any wise observer of matters theological. “The apostle Paul wrote: “For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Cor 15:22). Adam therefore symbolises death, and thus the question must be asked, is there significance to the ‘Adam’ in Gerry Adams’ name? Does Gerry Adams, the effective leader of the IRA’s republican movement, symbolise death?

The descriptions of the beasts in the Book of Revelation are interesting.

‘The inhabitants worshipped the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed,’ (Rev 13:12). Coincidentally, Gerry Adams was shot and wounded in 1984, but recovered. Afterwards he became Sinn Fein president and one of the foremost politicians in Northern Ireland. The use of violence for him is a matter of tactics. That is a matter of fact and record. Gerry Adams has not stepped away from violence. He believes in his own words that “there is a time for peace and a time for war”, mocking the Prince of Peace and equating Christ with the Antichrist, good with evil.

The first beast, who is said to be the Antichrist, is prophesied to have “seven heads” (Rev 13:1), which is coincidentally the number of heads on the IRA army council, including Gerry Adams’ allegedly.

“Who can make war against him?” (Rev 13:7). The IRA has been described as ‘the most sophisticated terrorist organisation in the history of mankind’. Their structure makes it impossible for a conventional army to defeat them.

Gerry Adams fulfilled another prophecy during the run-up to the 2007 Assembly election campaign in the North of Ireland. This involved him requesting the use of Clonard Monastery (and Roman Catholic) church in West Belfast for a political meeting discussing his party’s policy. He still believed that armed struggle was a legitimate means of resolving differences.

When Gerry Adams took to the altar of Clonard monastery while his beliefs were in conflict with Christ’s teaching, he was proclaiming himself to be wiser than God and better than Jesus Christ. He was in logic proclaiming himself to be God.

“[The man of lawlessness or the Antichrist] will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.” (2 Thes 2:3-4)”

The difference is that there is more than a smell of something downright nasty in the author’s motivations, an intent to sully the struggle and sacrifice of those who died as manipulable fools .

How interesting then that he attempts to demonstrate the gullibility of the hunger strikers by reference to their very shrewd refusal to be fooled by the Brits into announcing that the hunger strike had been called off before seeing the terms offered by the Brits published in the public arena. That the Brits refused demonstrates the hunger strikers’ good sense, the Brit’s nefariousness and now, Rusty Nail’s Machiavellian tactics in twisting that steadfastness into something completely other.

Crucially he completely ignores the central point of decision making in the whole process. It was always the case that the hunger-strikers themselves would hold the final authority in deciding if the terms offered by the enemy were sufficient to warrant a cessation and, while they would be guided in that decision making process by the outside leadership, they would not be dictated to by it. On respecting the hunger strikers’ integrity and refusing to dictate to them they incur the wrath and censureship of that master of virtue, Rusty Nail. Heaven help us all!

Rusty Nail’s whole campaign seems directed by bitterness at the electoral success of Sinn Féin and the failure of himself and his cohorts to make their own feeble voices heard by the nationalist electorate. The electorate clearly are not stupid.

I was under the impression, when I began reading the Irish News this morning, that Fitzgerald was revealing something relatively new

No even before the paper came out it was possible to predict what was to be said. I thought they may have elaborated, like saying who the insider was for the Irish government in the maze, and it didn’t look like the reporter pushed Fitzgerald on it.

And Jim Prior isn’t dead,

No you’re right, he’s not, but is in ill health like thatcher, it’s Atkins and Allison who are dead.

As for ‘new things coming to light’ who knows what correspondences or sources will emerge down the line?

Maybe, hopefully, but I’m not confident of it. Duddy has said there are no written notes of any messages he received, he hasn’t anything. If any of the republicans have anything they’re all accounted for, anything underfreedom of information so far hasn’t provded definitively one way or the other, so even if theres anymore to be released it still may not make this a cut and dry case. We shall have to wait and see.

Because it might look like using the deaths of those people, who were lionised by many in NI and beyond, for political purposes and or sullying their memory. Without “proof” to back up the allegations, a proof which is inherently very very difficult to establish, it would have looked like a baseless allegation to discredit Republicans.

Pretty humble station for someone who’s supposedly tha Anti-Christ doncha think John?

“I’m guessing you are. I would say John’s probably spot on about Adams”

Spot on about Adams?

Have you ever read his delusional rants about Adams being the Anti-Christ and the absolutely irrefutable numeric proof that this assertion is based on?

Sheeesh! I’ll have to go and lie down.

I’m guessing you are. I would say John’s probably spot on about Adams.

‘Bertie being taken seriously about anything’

To paraphrase you I’m no fan of Ahern but his work on the Peace Process wasn’t joking about; most would view it as his saving grace in some respects. But it’s well-known Ahern hates Sinn Fein and something Unionists have just figured out up here. Can you blame him/them?

‘As for that woolly self styled intellectual Garret Fitzgerald suddenly his amnesia has lifted after all these years.’

Fitzgerald was always, and still seems, pretty smart, writes his books still. Can’t be too woolly. Thatcher said something similar about him, preferring wily businessman Haughey (know who’s the more respectable out of Fitzgerald, Haughey, and Thatcher – it ain’t the latter two). He’s a self-styled intellectual in the same way Adams is a self-styled constitutional nationalist!

As for ‘new things coming to light’ who knows what correspondences or sources will emerge down the line? But, one thing is certain; they will. There are plans for the Easter Rising in the roof of a house in Dublin somewhere that might lend a ‘definitive’ tag to a future history, despite the best efforts of Charles Townshend.

And Jim Prior isn’t dead, Only Asking (not that there’ll be much more to come from him on the subject, which I’m sure he’s fine about).

You make him sound so principled

No John, I’m simply trying to be acurate.

He hasn’t coughed out anything, or met with O’Rawe or anyone else except the families in private.

You make him sound so principled. I’ll have to disagree with you on that. Gerry is just a likely lad, a chancer, and a hollow disciple of nothing in particular. He is without substance.

He finds himself as leader of the Nationalist people because they turned to him for brawn, as that is what he offered them, just as bully boys are popular in a school where bullies from another school were threatening.

Nationalists have been trying to sanctify their choice ever since but all they’re getting is that the myths aren’t true. They even starved their own men to death to get into politics. Instead they’re back to the truth that they chose bullies to fight their battles and the chickens will soon come home to roost.

No, john, you are implying he knowingly lied, rather than made a faulty decision or some other mistake, and then again it could be something else in the mix entirely. Even Adams is innocent until proven guilty.

he repeatedly lied about there being a deal to the press and media until Richard O’Rawe forced him to cough out the truth

He hasn’t coughed out anything, or met with O’Rawe or anyone else except the families in private.

although i believe there was a deal done, I’m not so sure that he lied.

Well, that is a little contradictory, don’t you think. Even if he didn’t lie at the time, he repeatedly lied about there being a deal to the press and media until Richard O’Rawe forced him to cough out the truth. That was after he was involved in trying to badmouth Richard O’Rawe.

I think thats an awful big jump to take on the evidence so far. I think most people like the families are torn over this John.

I guess being the son of god and all you are uniquely positioned