DUP must not betray supporters by sharing power with terrorists
They cannot play language games with the electorate and draw a distinction between terrorists and democrats when referring to IRA/SF. It simply does not wash.
To proceed along this road is to betray all those victims whom the DUP said it supported. It will further disenchant voters with politics in Northern Ireland. I have been trying to encourage our people to vote in the elections, and this is becoming very difficult to sustain.
To hold joint office with an IRA/SF ‘politician’ is to hand our country over to an all-Ireland party, thus giving Dublin a further role in the conduct of our affairs. This is unacceptable.
My brother, Kenneth, and many like him, stood on the line to keep our country from going down that road. Kenneth did not die for this.
This is not a basis for moving forward, not least because of the prospect of terrorists in government once again.
I say to the DUP, please do not betray those who trusted you in the last election, especially the innocent victims — they will not trust you again if you betray them this time. You cannot go into government with those who murdered and maimed our loved ones. We do not want to be governed, even jointly, by those you are now prepared to accept, when the conditions are right. You will have completely undermined all those you claimed to be supporting with your robust and sensible policies.
The DUP can only get the support of victims if they prove their seriousness in opposing terrorists at every turn. But going into government with them does not sound like opposing them. If they do this, they will be admitting that the methods that IRA/SF used to get to where they are today were legitimate.
My response to the St Andrews Agreement is a clear and unequivocal no.
Dr JE Hazlett Lynch
Director
West Tyrone Voice
Moyle Road
Newtownstewart
Co Tyrone
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