Are Provisional Sinn Fein-IRA Scum?

There has been much talk about Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott calling some Sinn Fein supporters scum.

I would have to agree with the following:

"Terrorists around the world don’t get called nice names except in this part of the UK: we call them Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein Ministers etc. Yes, Sinn Fein now support the PSNI. But they continue to defend the murders they carried out against their neighbours. Their message is not clear especially when it comes to the so-called dissidents.

Tom Elliott may have been provoked into using such a term as 'scum'. But many people in the Republic of Ireland, the UK and further afield would also call Sinn Fein 'scum' until they say sorry for the broken lives and heartache they caused to their families."

Spotlight on Northern Ireland Water

The recent BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme examined the crisis at Northern Ireland Water.

Items which should have been of interest to BBC NI are:

• The appointment of Sinn Fein/PIRA member Mairtin O’Muilleoir to the board (he was interviewed, but no mention of his political connections) along with a Republican trade union member;
• The appointment of Padraic White - husband of Fianna Fail member Mary White who co-founded Lir Chocolates and also visited Colombia seven times during the trial of the Sinn Fein/PIRA terrorists in Colombia. Senator White hasn't shown the same interest in human right abuses by Sinn Fein/PIRA;
• The confidence Sinn Fein/PIRA Minister Murphy had in the interim board; convicted terrorist Murphy said at the time: "The new interim board members have a great depth and breadth of experience which will enable them to meet the challenge of their future roles."
  

When the BBC has reported on other scandals, they have pointed out such political connections. Yet, silence about them in this programme. And the questions towards Minister Murphy were soft to say the least.

Murphy can continue on in his role as a result of the Belfast Agreement/St Andrew's Agreement form of Government in Northern Ireland. In any true democracy, he would be sacked.

Tom Elliott is right about the GAA

Tom Elliott is right to say that he wouldn't attend GAA games. The GAA has various stadiums and cups named after Sinn Fein/Provisional IRA/INLA terrorists. It still allows its grounds to be used to glorify the murder of Protestants and others by those terrorist organisations. It continues to fly the flag of another country and play the anthem of the Republic of Ireland at games. And then it pretends to be open to all!

Despite all this it is rewarded large sums of money from the tax payer. It receives more coverage on the publicly owned BBC than Northern Ireland football including the NI internationals. We have had a series of DUP Ministers of Sport, yet so far they have done very little to stop the sectarian GAA receiving funds if it doesn't reform. Every other organisation in Northern Ireland has to show they are open to all to receive such large amounts of funding.

The GAA is allowed to get away with keeping its terrorist link. The BBC, UTV and the NI Government treat them as a normal 'sporting' organisation. The dogs in the street know that if this was a Loyalist organisation, funding would have been stopped long ago and there would be no coverage on TV. How long do we have to keep appeasing those with blood on their hands?

DUP U-turn in Support of Terrorist Shrine

Gregory Campbell scrapped the Maze Stadium project because many people in the DUP said it would become a shrine to the Provisional IRA terrorists who committed suicide there. Now the DUP leader has indicated he is willing to go ahead with a terrorist shrine without the stadium! The Provos seem to be in control at Stormont. Due to the system of Government, they can threaten to collapse the Executive if they don't get their own way. Robinson is becoming more and more Trimblesque in his dealings with Sinn Fein-PIRA.

It's time the DUP pressed for a more normal system of Government at Stormont which doesn't involve every party having to be in the Executive.

A Friendly Neighbour?

If the Republic of Ireland is now a friendly neighbour to Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, why are they continuing to poach players from the Northern Ireland football team? Yes, some people in Northern Ireland decide to take up foreign passports from the RoI. But NI is part of the United Kingdom and has its own football team like England, Scotland and Wales. It's time the political leaders in the RoI started showing some respect to their neighbours in Northern Ireland UK.

Londonderry 1972

The events in Londonderry on 30 January 1972 should not be viewed in isolation. According to the Inquiry, Martin McGuinness (now Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland) had an illegal submachine gun on the day when soldiers opened fire on the rioters and protestors.

McGuinness has constantly lied about his past - as has Gerry Adams. McGuinness was one of the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Londonderry at the time. A few days before this particular bloody Sunday, two policemen were murdered by his organisation. Thousands of other people were also affected by his violence. If you listen to the Nationalist/Republican controlled BBC Northern Ireland, you would think that nothing else happened in 1972 in Northern Ireland. McGuinness is rarely questioned about his murderous past and he hasn't served a day in prison for any of the murders his terrorist gang carried out. Why is there no justice for all of his victims?

Some Republicans claim that the British Army should have a higher standard. Yet they go on to say that the Provisional IRA terrorist group was also in fact an 'army'. So which is it? If the Provos call themselves an 'army', does it mean they are an 'army' without any standards?

Of course the truth is that they were just a gang of murdering terrorist thugs who have been indulged by successive Governments. If there was any real justice for victims in Northern Ireland, McGuinness would be in prison instead of being the Deputy First Minister of the Government.

The SDLP Mask Slips ...

The mask that tries to hide sectarianism within the SDLP has slipped ... Declan O'Loan has called for a single party that would combine the SDLP with a gang that is unrepentant of its murderous past. The SDLP under Hume did form a Pan-Nationalist Front while the Provisional IRA were murdering and torturing people. So perhaps Mr O'Loan feels he is carrying on that tradition?

Mr O'Loan is of course married to Nuala O'Loan the former police ombudsman. She also struggled to hide her sectarianism when she was in that office as she tried to blacken the good name of the RUC over the actions of a small minority.

While Mr O'Loan has now withdrawn his suggestion, the original statement shows his line of thinking: he doesn't have a problem being in a joint party with Provisional IRA gang members who were guilty of the most heinous crimes. Perhaps the SDLP stands for the Sectarian Double-standards Liberation Party?