These fascists don’t even know the true meaning of republicanism
They said the others were trying to humiliate them. Ian Paisley and his party basically asserted that they could not trust Sinn Féin and the IRA to implement their promises. Paisley went over the top with his talk about sackcloth and ashes, but does anyone trust Sinn Féin’s word now?
The party has been seriously damaged over the Northern Bank raid. From early on, Sinn Féin leaders seemed to be hedging as they stressed that IRA leaders told them they were not involved in the raid. While Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness asked for proof of IRA involvement, their own denials lacked conviction. They were not so much saying that the IRA was not involved as that nobody could prove it was implicated.
The emphasis they have been putting on the need for proof seemed to suggest they knew the IRA was responsible for the raid, but they were still hoping the governments could not prove it.
Yet even then their language smacked of trying to have it both ways because they were suggesting that if it could be shown the IRA was involved, it would be a defining moment for their trust in the organisation. It would, in effect, be the ultimate betrayal of them by the IRA. Then came the horrific killing of Robert McCartney. Well-known IRA people were involved and there were dozens of witnesses who were threatened. They cannot testify for fear of their own lives.
This has degenerated to protecting murderous scum within their own ranks by threatening even their own SF supporters. The statement by the ubiquitous P O’Neill calling for support of the McCartney family in solving the murder was not worth the paper on which it was written because Jerry Kelly made it clear they were not asking people to co-operate with the PSNI.
The security forces have always known more about what was happening within SF and IRA circles than they have been prepared to admit. People involved in intelligence-gathering have to be careful about what they say in order to ensure the flow of information continues. The suggestion has already been published that there are two highly placed informants within the Provisional IRA. Any organisation that threatens and intimidates their own is inevitably riddled with people ready to betray it.
The IRA has been leaking like a sieve since the civil war. So many IRA plans have been frustrated that the organisation has been paranoid for decades. In the 1940s members were so frustrated they concluded that their own chief of staff, Stephen Hayes, was a garda spy. In the 1950s the organisation was again badly fragmented, leading to the collapse of the Border campaign in 1962. During the early 1980s Seán O’Callaghan, an elected Sinn Féin representative on Tralee urban council, provided gardaí with invaluable information not just about what had happened, but also about what was planned. He forewarned them, for instance, about a plot to kill Prince Charles and Diana at a charity concert in London. Where, you might ask, is the proof of that because it never happened.
Well, he also warned of an impending attempt to kidnap Galen Weston, who was spirited from his home for his own protection. The IRA arrived at the house and two were killed in a gunfight with the Special Branch.
O’Callaghan also provided information for the navy to intercept the Marita Ann gun-running, and Martin Ferris was caught red-handed and spent over a decade in jail for his involvement.
One should not take the latest talk of a couple of spies too literally. If they did have spies in place, it would be reckless to talk about them, so maybe they have other means of information.
Whatever the situation, the gardaí clearly trust their source or sources. Bertie Ahern was not only sure that the IRA was engaged in the Northern Bank raid but also that SF leaders knew about it in advance when they were talking of the IRA’s offer to stand down in December. Danny Morrison suggested in the Irish Examiner a couple of weeks ago that the so-called republicans in Belfast feel every time they make concessions, the goalposts are moved.
OF COURSE, it is now becoming apparent that those moving goalposts are a figment of their own imagination. They are reminiscent of the moving statues of the 1980s.
SF said in December that the IRA was prepared to decommission all of its weapons, but were unwilling to provide satisfactory proof. They offered to allow clerics from each side of the religious divide to witness the process.
Could they have suggested any men likely to know less about weapons? “Republicans cite the list of compromises they made to help make peace,” Morrison added. The second item that he listed was “supporting the amendments of Articles 2 & 3 as a concession to unionists’ sensibilities”. That was rich!
The people of the whole island voted overwhelmingly to change those articles, yet these so-called republicans want credit for accepting the democratic will of the people of the whole island. They don’t even know the meaning of republicanism and it is time we labelled them for what they are - fascists. The current crop are just a couple of generations removed from their predecessors who invited the Nazis to invade Donegal in 1940.
It is painfully obvious now that these people think they - and not the people - should rule this island. They are living in a wonderland of their own.
“A word means what I say it means, nothing more, nothing less,” one of the characters in Alice in Wonderland declared. Mitchel McLaughlin proclaimed that the killing of Jean McConville was not a crime, and his sidekicks have been adopting the same line. Since then we have had the savage murder of Robert McCartney.
What was he killed for - innocently trying to break up a fight involving his friend who was very seriously injured?
And for that he was butchered. Last month Martin McGuinness said Adams and he “work on the basis that you can’t tell lies within the peace process. If you tell lies, you get caught out and then irreparable damage is done”. McGuinness was right. The biggest casualty of all this is Sinn Féin’s credibility. For years they acknowledged responsibility for their actions, even in the face of public outrage. But in recent years they have been exposed as lying on a number of occasions, and the last couple of weeks have been the last straw.
Their word no longer means anything that can be understood by the community at large. The Sinn Féin people clearly have a different meaning when they use words like crime, republicanism, robbery, democracy and morality.
These so-called republicans are writing their own focalóir - and it’s not worth a tinker’s curse.
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