| Culzie | Date: Monday, 2012-07-16, 9:18 PM | Message # 1 |
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| And there were those who told us that we must get the ira into politics and they will be rejected by their people. Back in the early 1980s a fella said to me ''the Catholic people don't want the IRA'' Did he not know that the Catholic people ditched Redmond and his party and voted overwhelmingly for sinn fein. They then ditched the nationalists and voted for the more extreme SDLP who were the party of street politics at that time. Now the circle has been completed and sinn fein look set for the ascendancy again.
Irish youth ‘fall for IRA story’
Published on Sunday 15 July 2012 10:19 News Letter
ONE of the fiercest critics of the IRA in the Republic has said that opponents of terrorism south of the border have “utterly failed” in their 40-year-bid to counter the justification of republican violence.
Writing as Sinn Fein rides the crest of a wave as its popularity has soared after leading opposition to the EU Treaty, former Irish senator Eoghan Harris said that opponents of the IRA had not been able sufficiently to remind southern voters of the terror group’s atrocities.
Opinion polls now suggest that Sinn Fein is the second largest party in the Republic, still behind Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael, but now comfortably ahead of both Fianna Fail and the Irish Labour Party.
Writing in a newspaper, Mr Harris likened the grip of Sinn Fein over voters to that which Scientology has over its adherents.
“Those of us in public life who fought a 40-year campaign to counter ambivalence about the IRA’s armed struggle have failed completely,” he said. “Like Scientology, Sinn Fein is a cult which targets young people. And it is winning the battle for the hearts and minds of the rising generation in the Irish Republic.
“Ask your teenage children, tune in to any student debate, consult any political website. Their story of victimhood is the one with status. Like all cults, it is almost impossible to break its leech-like grip on those growing up without a moral story of their own.”
The journalist and author accused the media in the Republic – and especially RTE – of not sufficiently challenging Sinn Fein’s view of itself and the actions of the IRA.
Writing in his weekly column in last week’s Sunday Independent, Ireland’s biggest-selling Sunday broadsheet newspaper, which has a long history of bitter criticism of republican terrorists, Mr Harris said that “conflation is the secret of Sinn Fein’s success” by saying that because the IRA made peace in Northern Ireland it must be rewarded with power in the Republic.
He said: “Sinn Fein scientologists succeed because they bank on us not setting a separate moral standard for this State.
“They say if Northern Ireland has to suck up the murder of RUC officers, we must suck up the murder of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.
“In the presidential election, no political party in the Irish Republic — and certainly not RTE — challenged the narrative of Martin McGuinness: that Northern Ireland was close to a Nazi state, occupied by thousands of British troops who oppressed the Roman Catholic people and that the only answer to this was armed struggle.”
Noting that the party was doing well with educated Irish people who have doctorates, Mr Harris described student supporters as “useful idiots”. He said that those who were signing up as Sinn Fein members would need “strong stomachs”.
“They will be joining a party whose hard side still reveres the IRA women who, on March 10 1971, lured three teenage squaddies of the Royal Highland Fusiliers from a Belfast pub ... They were driven to a remote location and shot dead’.
He added: “They will be joining a party where they will learn to live with lies. Like the lie about the Provos defending the Catholic people from the Brits and Prods.
“In fact, the IRA killed 49 per cent of the total of 3,466 people – and killed more Catholics than the UDA, the UVF or the British army.
“They will be joining a party which is not really a party. They will be joining a cult.
“Because the main aim of any cult is to perpetuate that cult. Here Sinn Fein has a lot in common with Scientology.
“Sinn Fein, like Scientology, now stands for nothing except to exist and expand.”
Mr Harris said: “If Sinn Fein wants to win State power in the Republic, it must play down the details of its politically pointless and murderous past in Northern Ireland. RTE has been a huge help in that revision.”
He said that if things continue as they are “Sinn Fein will be in government in both states not long after 2016” but that it was not clear what the party would do once in power.
However, Mr Harris, who has in recent years battled against cancer, said that “with luck, I will not be around to look into that abyss”.
And he concluded: “This gormless generation is marching mindlessly behind a Provo piper and nobody knows where they are going.”
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