Wednesday, March 28, 2007
“Let no one interfere with that”
Entirely unrelated to the previous post.. In this online clip [RealPlayer video] Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, after praising what he describes as an “indigenous” deal “put together by SF and the DUP”, upbraids the BBC’s NI political editor Mark Devenport - “Journalists have the right and the responsibility and the duty to ask questions.. you don’t have the right to ask stupid questions” - and, in response to concerns raised by former DUP MEP Jim Allister yesterday, insisted that, in his opinion, “The IRA have been, and will continue to be, a catalyst for the peace process.”
Pete Baker @ 01:37 PM
“The fact remains, they are still considered a positive force for making changes, only this time it happens to be for peace. “
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?
Posted by on Mar 28, 2007 @ 08:44 PMI know this is completely off subject but… we need a statue of David Healy NOW!!! I can’t think of another person at the moment who has made so many feel proud to be Ulstermen! Norn Iron 2 Sweden 1… Arise sir David! :)))
Posted by on Mar 28, 2007 @ 08:49 PMAlways ask the question, we can make up our own answers:
“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”
Posted by on Mar 28, 2007 @ 08:49 PMJD:
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.
Posted by on Mar 28, 2007 @ 11:00 PMWonderful post comrade Stalin, I can see how you out maneuvered comrade Trotsky after Felix told you Trotsky had turned down General Tukhachevsky offer to make him Russia’s Napoleon Bonopart and in the process send you back to Georgia in a box, what a weakling. What crime have you thought up to punish Mikhail Nikolayevich for such treachery?
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?
Posted by on Mar 28, 2007 @ 11:32 PM-
Posted by on Mar 29, 2007 @ 01:35 AM
What crime have you thought up to punish Mikhail Nikolayevich for such treachery?
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.
Posted by on Mar 29, 2007 @ 07:39 AMWhynot
Must agree with you about Hermon - she honestly seemed annnoyed that Hain hadnt pulled the plug on 26th!
Not to be outdone Dominic Bradley of SDLP said we should abolish academic selection - because the deal was not technically done on the 26th!Posted by on Mar 29, 2007 @ 09:06 AMBefore the election the question was will DUP and Sinn Fein be able to work together now that they are showing they can the self same critics are trying to rake up problems before they can engage.
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.
Posted by on Mar 29, 2007 @ 12:30 PMI heard the interview in question and Gerry Adams’ dismissive and overbearing response to a reasonable question about the need for an Army Council let slip the large streak of authoritarianism that characterises the Republican movement.Gerry should now realise that he is part of the new Establishment in Northern Ireland and is fair game for a bit of robust journalistic interrogation. After all that is far better than having your critics shot dead.
Posted by on Mar 29, 2007 @ 09:47 PM
