QUEEN'S HONOURS THE PEACE PROCESSORS...
I see that Queen's University Belfast - my alma mater - is set to honour Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair today for their role in "bringing peace" to Northern Ireland. How nice. Maybe they'll take the time to stroll across to University Square and visit the spot where Ulster Unionist politician and Queen's University lecturer Edgar Graham was brutally murdered by the IRA in 1983. No one was ever convicted of that brutal assassination and perhaps the peace processors might reflect on why it is that their sordid "peace" can only be purchased by allowing murderers to get away with their hands dripping in the blood of the innocent. I've long since lost ANY respect I may have once held for Queen's University - it is now entirely politicised and part of the chorus for peace at any price. Nice building - those running it these days are rotten to the core.
David Vance
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David,
What's your alternative? You may well have spelt it out before on ATW but I wasn't around then.
Dawkins,
The alternative to rewarding terrorists is to punish them. The alternative to allowing gangsters into government is to keep them out. The alternative to destroying the RUC was to keep it in situ, as it had the IRA on its lousy knees. The alternative to appeasing evilis to defeat it. All this is unaccepable to terrorists - and I am glad of that. I have never sought to reward evildoers - only to punish them.
David -Dawkins has a point. Other than expressing dislike for Sinn Fein and the current process why not offer an alternative scenario for the governing of NI.
David,
You sound like a Unionist hankering after the old one-party state system (very communist that) which obtained in NI for too long. It was evil too, although perhaps not quite as homicidal as the IRA's bloody campaign.
Time and again the Nationalists sought change, but Paisley (remember him?) and crew weren't having any of it, even going so far as to call out Unionist workers to strike. Blame the violence on him—I do.
With my 1.52pm question I meant: What's your alternative to the Assembly and power-sharing? And is it fair and just?
Mahons/Dawkins,
Let me respond later when I get a few moments - questions worthy of a serious response.
What the "sordid peace" looks like.
1972 deaths
2007 deaths
For years Unionists called for Republicans so give up violence and use political means to try to achieve their aims. Now that they are doing so some Unionists (Vance et al.) are still not happy.
FewsOrange,
I doubt if most Nationalists are happy with the IRA at the helm. Mind you, they're doing surprisingly well out of uniform or balaclava.