| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2011-06-07, 3:11 PM | Message # 1 |
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| By Kevin Myers
Thursday June 02 2011
I WAS against the peace process: I was and am and will always remain
against it, which is why I do not spell it with capital letters.
I am in favour of peace, but not in favour of conciliating murderers and
I believe it is the first duty of any state to impose its lawful
monopoly on the use of armed might upon dissident armies within its
realm -- by its own armed might, if necessary. One law: one army; one
police.
But the Irish Republic chose to ignore these fundamental principles of
any democracy and instead tried to deal with an insurgent terrorist
force of the Provisional IRA by using various weak-willed adaptations of
common law. The consequence was a conflict that lasted longer than both
Boer Wars, the Anglo-Irish War and the two world wars combined.
So I bade a fond farewell to Garret FitzGerald last week for his
contributions as a thinker: but I was silent about his role as
Taoiseach, for which I feel much disdain, not least because although he
wrung the Anglo-Irish Agreement from the British (Sunningdale II), he
did not in exchange crush the living daylights out of the IRA. Nor did
his predecessor, Liam Cosgrave, after Sunningdale I. And by the time of
Sunningdale III, namely the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein-IRA were in
the political driving seat and able to do largely as they pleased.
Throughout the peace process and the gruesome minuet beforehand, no one
ever told the Shinners, firmly and unequivocally: "This is how we do
things. We do not murder our purely political opponents. We do not break
legs. And by the Grace of a Limitlessly Forgiving God and some
astoundingly supine terrestrial politicians, if you are ever lucky
enough to be admitted into the sunlight of an open and accountable
democracy, you will not insult the dead by foisting convicted killers on
the institutions of state."
But this didn't happen, with the outcome that someone like Mary McArdle
has now been made special adviser to Northern Arts Minister Caral ni
Chuilin, or, as Eilis O'Hanlon pointed out in the 'Sunday Independent',
just plain old Carol Cullen in her schooldays. That was before she came
over all patriotic, and started dabbling in high explosives, when the
Xmas Carol became the SemtX Caral. But her current chum, Mary McArdle,
went one better, with her involvement with the gang which carried out
the cold-blooded murder of 22-year-old Mary Travers during a gun attack
on the Travers family as they left Sunday Mass in 1985.
This is how magistrate Tom Travers described his daughter's last
moments: "At that time, Mary lay lying on her mum's breast, her gentle
heart pouring its pure blood on to a dusty street in Belfast. The
murderer's gun, which was pointed at my wife's head, misfired twice.
Another gunman shot me six times. As he prepared to fire the first shot,
I saw the look of hatred on his face, a face I will never forget."
Judge Travers told of how he and his family had heard the Pope in the
Phoenix Park say: "Murder is murder and never let it be called by
another name." Referring to the later and quite scandalous Irish Supreme
Court objections to the extradition of IRA killers from this Republic,
he added: "These people. . . (the judges of Ireland) must in reality
have believed that murder could be called by another name."
Quite so.
Mary McArdle -- who was the operationally vital gun courier for the
killers and who heard her victim's father repeatedly break down while
giving evidence -- was imprisoned for life for her part in this
disgusting murder. She smiled and waved at her family at the sentence:
clearly, a lovely girl. Her co-accused was acquitted on the grounds that
Tom Travers' evidence of identification might have been flawed. So much
for the lie that nationalists could not get justice in Northern Irish
courts. (For the record, as a mere civil magistrate, Tom Travers was not
involved in terrorist trials -- and nor should this make any difference
to any but the most demented of Sinn Fein cultists).
AFTER poor Mary Travers' sister Ann spoke on 'Liveline' last week about
her distress at hearing that the co-murderer of Mary had been rewarded
with a prize appointment in the Stormont Executive, there were the usual
sanctimonious cries from Sinn Fein that though the killing was
"regrettable", Mary's family should "move on". Better still, there came
the accusation that for victims' families to complain now was to put the
perpetrators at risk of retaliatory violence.
I know, I know: in SF/IRA martyrology, the victims ALWAYS become the
culprits. Why can't patriots be allowed to kill as much as they want and
then live in peace and prosperity, just as in the good old 1920s?
So the Shinners still luxuriate in their own selective amnesia, still
furiously demanding enquiries into the Monaghan and Dublin bombings and
into the murders of Seamus Ludlow and Eddie Fullerton.
And why wouldn't they? Because no one in government, North, South, East
or West, ever takes them by the scruff of their self-pitying necks,
waves a mailed fist under their nose and tells them to shuck the fut up,
or else.
- Kevin Myers
Irish Independent
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| RSAUB | Date: Tuesday, 2011-06-07, 11:00 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Very true as for what that arsehole McDonald on what he's said today. The traitors will pay for their crimes, hopefully.
What is worrying is the way "combatants and victims" are now being viewed. It's good to see a Southern Irish paper actually coming out on the offensive against the rebels.
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| Culzie | Date: Friday, 2011-06-10, 11:12 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Yeah there's Myers,Harris and Ruth Dudley Edwards who at least don't fall for all the spin the ira/shinners put on all their activities. The murderers of Cork are exposed as just that...murderers.
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