THE LONDONDERRY HEIRS - PART TWO
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 08:39AM Another day, another murder - peace abounds.
I see that a young man has been shot dead in Londonderry a gang of masked men in the republican stronghold of the Creggan. His crime was to deliver a pizza.
Who would have thought that could happen? Masked men? Terrorising innocent people? Street execution? In Northern Ireland??
For DECADES, terrorism has been a way of life for a certain type of person in this area. They have seen their most senior terrorist and role model - Martin McGuinness - raised up to the position of Deputy First Minister. The wages of appeasing terrorism is more terrorism and this is what we see on our streets. Still, nobody supports this new bunch of killers, right? I mean, when previous masked men carried out equally revolting murders on the streets of the Creggan they did so with popular support but these new terrorists have NO mandate for murder - which is why they will be turned in by the local community, right?
The Londonderry heirs do what they are good at - killing.
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Does the local community in say Manchester or London or New York or Los Angeles or Paris turn in all who commit crime? No.
For DECADES, terrorism has been a way of life for a certain type of person in this area.
Does everyone in Donaghcloney beat their wife?
I suspect that many there would be too terrified of retribution to turn these criminals in. Its not as though this activity were condoned, or supported. As Mahons says, this wouldn't be the first time that frightened silence has been the reaction to a crime.
Lets say you're the mother of young children in that estate and you know who the killers were. Are you going to rush to the PSNI and proclaim that you know who did it? Not if you want to see your kids grow up, you won't.
One would hope that an anonymous tip at least could be given to the police, via an intermediary, if that's the only way of doing it.