I would like to offer my views and opinion on where we as a Unionist family need to go, following the announcement by Peter Robinson in a TV interview after the Euro election. That he and the DUP are going to reconnect with the grass roots, this is welcome however it’s long overdue.
The DUP need to set about a series of well publicized public meetings, with the views and opinions of the Unionist electorate taken onboard and a commitment that the views expressed will be seriously considered and if they are found to be rationale made policy, after all the people are the party.
It really is a frustration when we take the time to contact the DUP, and we don’t even warrant a reply. I have taken the time to send several E-mails to yourself Nigel and Gregory Campbell on various subjects including the national stadium and on the feelings of the Unionist electorate in the run up to the European elections. It is the failure to reply to communications that is putting a distance between the electorate and the elected representative. The DUP seem to have forgotten that it is we the electorate that put the MP’s and MLA’s where they are and we are here to be listened too and heard not sidelined and regarded as election fodder to be trotted out every time there is an election!
I am well aware that any public meeting is likely to be a bumpy affair, however that is the price the DUP will have to pay if the DUP wish to continue to be the main party in Northern Ireland, the DUP need to assuage the Unionist electorate’s disaffection.
We want a modern united Unionist family not a dysfunctional fractured Unionist rabble. We despise the internecine squabbling of the Unionist parties. Sure other Unionist parties have opposing views however we do not want them aired on the anti Unionist media. Keep the message positive and the parties of the seventies will wither on the political vine. If the parties of the seventies could only muster nearly seventy thousand votes in a national election they will not do well in a parliamentary or assembly election, bearing in mind most of their vote was a protest at the expenses scandal. A positive message will get a greater Unionist vote out at elections.
One of the main points that played out at the Euro elections was the disquiet around the Robinson's expenses and the other MP’s and MLA’s expenses, be they justified or not. Many ordinary Unionist voters are talking of never voting DUP again. This spans not only the less well of on the Shankill but the better off and employed Unionist voters.
The defence made by Peter Robinson on TV concerning his expenses has been a vote loser, also his arrogant manor and his less than convincing explanation was also a contributing factor in a less than satisfactory turn out at the election. Iris Robinson’s image is also alienating a sizeable proportion of Unionist and DUP voters along with the recent media performances of Jeffery Donaldson and Gregory Campbell,
Perception is everything today, to that end, the DUP are being seen as arrogant, greedy and self-serving. Outside of their constituencies the Robinson's are particularly seen as arrogant, greedy and self-serving and other DUP MP's and MLA's are being included along with them. Jeffery’s Donaldson and Gregory Campbell’s patronizing performances on TV and phone in radio shows are again coming over as arrogant, and there is no sign of contrition by any DUP MP or MLA on the expenses scandal.
Talk to any working class voter on the Shankill or anywhere for that matter, and the DUP are seen as contradictory. Saying that you voted for change in the expense system, yet you are seen to benefitting substantially form that system, something is ringing hollow.
The Robinsons claimed £30K for food over four years, Peter Robinson then claiming that it was only £70 per week. Does he not know how badly that played with the Unionist DUP voter? Peter Robinson needs to remember the Unionist people don’t like to be played as fools. The fact that Peter Robinson had the arrogance to go on TV and defend this position is seen as condescending and arrogant by DUP and other Unionist voters.
Many of those who are expressing resentment are getting the less than or just a few pounds more than the £70 Peter Robinson quoted to keep a household a week, and he was on TV defending spending that amount on eating out in London! He is reopening accusations of old styled Unionism.
There is also anger over MP’s and MLA’s, double and triple jobbing, nepotism, and an increasingly distant, arrogant and condescending DUP leadership. Stormont is increasingly seen as talking shop and is not working for the Unionist population. The perception is that the best speakers and workers at Stormont are nationalists, as whenever you see Stormont on TV there are very few DUP MLA’s there why is this?
The Unionist electorate’s perception of the DUP leadership is that they are now so far removed from us the electorate that they have forgotten what we the great unwashed think, look and smell like.
It appears that many DUP MP’s and MLA’s have forgotten that most of their voters are unemployed or on the minimum wage and even the lucky voters on a salary over the national wage like me, find it outrages that our MP’s are clearing hundreds of thousands of pounds in expenses and its perpetuating the impression that MP’s are only in it for themselves and for what they can get out of the system.
What is needed is a firm commitment to stop the expenses gravy train, the double jobbing and the nepotism, not at some arbitrary date in the future but a commitment to stop the run away gravy train now.
We want the DUP to make politics work for the majority Unionist population and if that benefits the rest of the population then so be it. We need to get away from the single sum game of; if we win they must lose.
We want the DUP to come out and state that while they are a Unionist party they will work for everyone, and that a full working relationship will be conducted with nationalism and republicanism.
We are demanding a stop to the rubbishing of other Unionists parties. Win us over on your policies not on negative electioneering. Dispense with the smash Sinn Fein mantra, as we know you are working with them on a daily basis, and anyhow no one believes it. Forget about the bogey man at the border, he is bankrupt and doesn’t want us now or ever. The cold facts are that the Irish republic could never afford us and with their economy in free fall and their credit ratting being down graded, they will never be able to afford us, ever. Now there is a positive message for Unionists and a cold hard fact that Sinn Fein and the SDLP can’t counter.
We want the best candidate for the job not the nepotism that appears to be rife in the DUP.
I fear if the DUP don’t address the points above then the DUP can expect more stay at home Unionists at elections and this will only advantage the SDLP and Sinn Fein.
A David Cameron, Conservative type make over and real action is required not the Peter, Jeffery and Gregory old style Unionist patronizing show. Keep up the old style Unionist patronizing show and the DUP will be last years MP’s and MLA’s. Unionist voters won’t stand for patronizing Unionist politicians anymore.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Can a republican or nationalist ever get justice form Sinn Fein
A question that needs to be asked, what justice can an ordinary nationalist and republican get, if the victim in this case is being obstructed by Sinn Fein/IRA?
Remember the recent incidents involving Robert McCartney, Paul Quinn and the disappeared. The cover ups, the denials and smears. The slow release of information to the families of the disappeared and the character assassination of the disappeared and the Robert McCartney sisters and the Paul Quinn family!!!
Gerry Adams the man who all through his public life has denied being in the IRA, and has denied his full roll in several infamous incidents during the so called troubles. So spinning and covering up are hardly new to Adams or Sinn Fein/IRA.
Here I believe is the issue that goes to the heart of the matter an issue that nationalists and republicans are in complete denial about. Do the ordinary nationalists and republicans want to be represented by people and a party that when a young girl asks for help and justice, all she gets are lies, attempted cover up and half truths. Adams is the master in the tactics of deflection, spin and reverse victim-hood, all the tactics he has used in the case of his brother.
The ordinary nationalist and republican needs to throw the shackles of the, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, collective monkey off their backs. And see Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA for what they really are, a party and group that care little for the people they allege they represent. A party when people need justice form them, all they get is obstruction, smears, absconding and justice denied.
Until ordinary nationalists and republicans, realize that Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA have a vested interest in keeping them and their communities subjugated then the cycle of some old, same old in nationalist and republican areas will continue forever.
I’m sure there are more of these cases yet to be uncovered, and at some stage they will be forced out, to infect the nationalist and republican communities. Nationalist and republican communities need to remember as the next scandal breaks how efficiently the Sinn Fein/IRA machine went into overdrive to obstruct, smear, clean up and cover up paedophilia and murders. Is there nothing they won’t stoop too, to cover up for the party’s apparatchiks or other IRA players!!!
To quote Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear the party (Sinn Fein/IRA), there is tyranny; when the party fears the people, there is liberty.”
Tyranny in nationalist and republican communities is prevailing!!!
Remember the recent incidents involving Robert McCartney, Paul Quinn and the disappeared. The cover ups, the denials and smears. The slow release of information to the families of the disappeared and the character assassination of the disappeared and the Robert McCartney sisters and the Paul Quinn family!!!
Gerry Adams the man who all through his public life has denied being in the IRA, and has denied his full roll in several infamous incidents during the so called troubles. So spinning and covering up are hardly new to Adams or Sinn Fein/IRA.
Here I believe is the issue that goes to the heart of the matter an issue that nationalists and republicans are in complete denial about. Do the ordinary nationalists and republicans want to be represented by people and a party that when a young girl asks for help and justice, all she gets are lies, attempted cover up and half truths. Adams is the master in the tactics of deflection, spin and reverse victim-hood, all the tactics he has used in the case of his brother.
The ordinary nationalist and republican needs to throw the shackles of the, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, collective monkey off their backs. And see Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA for what they really are, a party and group that care little for the people they allege they represent. A party when people need justice form them, all they get is obstruction, smears, absconding and justice denied.
Until ordinary nationalists and republicans, realize that Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA have a vested interest in keeping them and their communities subjugated then the cycle of some old, same old in nationalist and republican areas will continue forever.
I’m sure there are more of these cases yet to be uncovered, and at some stage they will be forced out, to infect the nationalist and republican communities. Nationalist and republican communities need to remember as the next scandal breaks how efficiently the Sinn Fein/IRA machine went into overdrive to obstruct, smear, clean up and cover up paedophilia and murders. Is there nothing they won’t stoop too, to cover up for the party’s apparatchiks or other IRA players!!!
To quote Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear the party (Sinn Fein/IRA), there is tyranny; when the party fears the people, there is liberty.”
Tyranny in nationalist and republican communities is prevailing!!!
Adams and Liamgate
These are posts from me onto the BBC's Takback message forum.
Observe the lies doggy time lines and insincerity for Gerry Adams.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8423501.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8420275.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8634342.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8559499.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8549939.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8424502.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8548674.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8478237.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8470988.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8471174.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8469293.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8463586.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8463724.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8461792.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8462642.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8460256.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8458972.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8451404.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8429389.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8431807.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8429389.stm
This story seems to get more and more bizarre; it’s quite obvious that Liam Adams was extensively involved with Sinn Fein, in both west Belfast and county Louth.
This after Gerry knew of the allegations against Liam Adams and their alleged estrangement and his alleged expulsion form Sinn Fein.
Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein in subsequent interviews from the initial UTV interview have changed their stories surrounding Liam’s involvement with Sinn Fein and at what level that involvement took place.
Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein have tried to dilute the involvement of Liam Adams in Sinn Fein, and in attempt after attempt they have tried to cover up the fact that Liam Adams, was permitted to continue in a senior roll in Sinn Fein.
It is inconceivable that Gerry would not have known of Liam’s involvement in the party, as the position he held in Louth was a leadership appointee. Gerry and Liam were canvassing in Louth, Liam and Martin McGuinness we seen opening the new Sinn Fein Louth offices. And as for being a chairman of a local association in Gerry’s heartland of west Belfast, it’s inconceivable that this appointment was not known to Gerry.
Gerry said he was estranged form Liam, yet Gerry was at Liam’s second wedding in Donegal along with several high profile Sinn Fein members, and they were seen smiling while getting their photograph taken with other guest’s, this is a very strange estrangement???
Gerry needs to come clean on Liam’s involvement with Sinn Fein and any contact Liam, had with children when he was involved with Sinn Fein in west Belfast and Louth, and when he worked as a community worker in west Belfast and Louth. Why did Gerry at that time when he was in contact with Liam, and he knew of his whereabouts not inform the local police or the social services of the allegations against Liam.
You can hear Mary Lou’s attempt to defend Sinn Fein’s and Gerry’s position. Then you can hear Suzanne Breen; take to peaces Gerry’s and Sinn Fein’s attempted cover up and spin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00ptn1l
The Sunday Tribune will be a great read on tomorrow.
I see that Ian Paisley junior, has tabled questions on Gerry’s involvement in the Liamgate cover up, this after Gerry said if there are questions to be ask, ask them.
I can almost hear the collective hysteria of Sinn Fein that someone has dared to asked the questions of Gerry.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/sinn-fein-president-gerry-adams-hits-out-at-paisley-claims-14636856.html
Now for the big question, what parent in their right mind would vote for a party leader or a party that is putting so much effort into protecting a paedophile, and is putting the party before the victim or protecting innocent children?
More shifting stories on the Liam Adams departure form Sinn Fein, in the latest BBC NI news Gerry said that he got Liam to leave Sinn Fein. However, that is a shift form his first statement when he said, when I found out Liam was in the party he got Liam thrown out of Sinn Fein.
So Gerry what is it, did he go or was he pushed.
Another interesting aspect to this is, if Gerry got Liam to leave there must have been some type of discussion as to why he was being asked to leave Sinn Fein. During that conversation, we can only assume that Gerry told Liam that it was because he believed what Liam's daughter had told him about the sexual abuse allegations.
Why then did Liam feel the time was right to join Sinn Fein again in Gerry's west Belfast constituency???
Ranger, the other inconsistency in the statement you quote is that if Gerry didn’t tell people “why”, it implies that he told them something. Therefore Gerry is saying that he told people to get liam dumped out so his statement that he did it himself is a complete contradiction
That is a bit disingenuous as the BBC broke the Robinson storey, and they have given many minuets of air time to the Robinson's predicament, unlike that of the other leader Adams.
If the allegations of lying and cover-up for a paedophile were laid at any other leader than Adams, the media reaction would be like that of the Robinson's.
In every interview Gerry has changed the events, facts and timelines. It is not as if he did not have time to get the facts or time lines of what Liam was up to and where.
As the UTV programme first contacted Gerry Adams at the end of the summer of 2009 for an interview, and it was only a few day’s before broadcasting that he finally gave that interview. So if Gerry can't get his story straight and every week the story changes what are we to think, the only conclusion must be that there is something to hide and a cover-up has been set in place to protect Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein.
The question now that needs to be asked, what justice can an ordinary nationalist & republican get if the victim in this case, the nice of Sinn Fein/IRA president and MP for West Belfast, is being obstructed and de-victimized by Sinn Fein/IRA?
Nationalists & republicans need to remember Sinn Fein/IRA, have form in this type of activity. The recent murders and cover up’s involving Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn, the slow release of information to the families of the disappeared and the character assassination of the disappeared, and the character assassination of Robert McCartney’s sisters and the family of Paul Quinn. Do not bode well for ordinary nationalists & republicans getting Sinn Fein/IRA justice and fairness, even in a paedophile case!!!
Gerry Adams is a serial denier. Adams the man who all through his life has denied being in the IRA, and has denied his full roll in several infamous incidents during the so called troubles, he even denied knowing if he was abused? So Adams, form in this issue is hardly unfamiliar to him.
Here I believe is the issue that goes to the heart of the matter an issue that nationalists & republicans are in complete denial about. Adams has blatantly told lies and half truths over many years. He is a master in the tactics of deflection, spin and victim-hood, all the tactics he has used in this case.
The issue of the blatant lies that Adams is coming out with are of concern for the nationalist & republican voters. They need to re-examine and revaluate what type of people and party they want to represent them.
The ordinary nationalist & republican needs to get the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, collective monkey off their backs, and see Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA for what they really are. Until ordinary nationalists & republicans, realize that Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA have a vested interest in keeping their communities and electorate subjugated then the cycle of some old, same old in nationalist & republican areas will continue forever.
I’m sure there are more of these cases, and at some stage they will be forced out, to affect the nationalist & republican communities. Remember Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn, if Sinn Fein/IRA can clean up and cover up murders, there is nothing they won’t stoop too, to cover up for the party’s apparatchiks or other IRA members in a sexual abuse allegation against ordinary nationalist & republican people!!!
To quote Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Change the government, to Sinn Fein and this seems to sum up everything in nationalist & republican communities!!!
More shifting stories on the Liam Adams departure form Sinn Fein, in the latest BBC NI news Gerry said that he got Liam to leave Sinn Fein.
However, that is a shift form his first statement when he said, he moved immediately to get him dumped out of Sinn Fein without telling people why, he went on to say he moved very, very quickly.
So Gerry what is it, did he go or was he pushed.
Another interesting aspect to this is, if Gerry got Liam to leave there must have been some type of conversation as to why he was being asked to leave Sinn Fein. During that conversation, we can only assume that Gerry told Liam that it was because he believed what Liam’s daughter had told him about the sexual abuse allegations.
Why then did Liam feel the time was right to rejoin Sinn Fein again in Gerry’s own west Belfast constituency???
Observe the lies doggy time lines and insincerity for Gerry Adams.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8423501.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8420275.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8634342.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8559499.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8549939.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8424502.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8548674.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8478237.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8470988.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8471174.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8469293.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8463586.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8463724.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8461792.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8462642.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8460256.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8458972.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8451404.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8429389.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8431807.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8429389.stm
This story seems to get more and more bizarre; it’s quite obvious that Liam Adams was extensively involved with Sinn Fein, in both west Belfast and county Louth.
This after Gerry knew of the allegations against Liam Adams and their alleged estrangement and his alleged expulsion form Sinn Fein.
Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein in subsequent interviews from the initial UTV interview have changed their stories surrounding Liam’s involvement with Sinn Fein and at what level that involvement took place.
Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein have tried to dilute the involvement of Liam Adams in Sinn Fein, and in attempt after attempt they have tried to cover up the fact that Liam Adams, was permitted to continue in a senior roll in Sinn Fein.
It is inconceivable that Gerry would not have known of Liam’s involvement in the party, as the position he held in Louth was a leadership appointee. Gerry and Liam were canvassing in Louth, Liam and Martin McGuinness we seen opening the new Sinn Fein Louth offices. And as for being a chairman of a local association in Gerry’s heartland of west Belfast, it’s inconceivable that this appointment was not known to Gerry.
Gerry said he was estranged form Liam, yet Gerry was at Liam’s second wedding in Donegal along with several high profile Sinn Fein members, and they were seen smiling while getting their photograph taken with other guest’s, this is a very strange estrangement???
Gerry needs to come clean on Liam’s involvement with Sinn Fein and any contact Liam, had with children when he was involved with Sinn Fein in west Belfast and Louth, and when he worked as a community worker in west Belfast and Louth. Why did Gerry at that time when he was in contact with Liam, and he knew of his whereabouts not inform the local police or the social services of the allegations against Liam.
You can hear Mary Lou’s attempt to defend Sinn Fein’s and Gerry’s position. Then you can hear Suzanne Breen; take to peaces Gerry’s and Sinn Fein’s attempted cover up and spin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00ptn1l
The Sunday Tribune will be a great read on tomorrow.
I see that Ian Paisley junior, has tabled questions on Gerry’s involvement in the Liamgate cover up, this after Gerry said if there are questions to be ask, ask them.
I can almost hear the collective hysteria of Sinn Fein that someone has dared to asked the questions of Gerry.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/sinn-fein-president-gerry-adams-hits-out-at-paisley-claims-14636856.html
Now for the big question, what parent in their right mind would vote for a party leader or a party that is putting so much effort into protecting a paedophile, and is putting the party before the victim or protecting innocent children?
More shifting stories on the Liam Adams departure form Sinn Fein, in the latest BBC NI news Gerry said that he got Liam to leave Sinn Fein. However, that is a shift form his first statement when he said, when I found out Liam was in the party he got Liam thrown out of Sinn Fein.
So Gerry what is it, did he go or was he pushed.
Another interesting aspect to this is, if Gerry got Liam to leave there must have been some type of discussion as to why he was being asked to leave Sinn Fein. During that conversation, we can only assume that Gerry told Liam that it was because he believed what Liam's daughter had told him about the sexual abuse allegations.
Why then did Liam feel the time was right to join Sinn Fein again in Gerry's west Belfast constituency???
Ranger, the other inconsistency in the statement you quote is that if Gerry didn’t tell people “why”, it implies that he told them something. Therefore Gerry is saying that he told people to get liam dumped out so his statement that he did it himself is a complete contradiction
That is a bit disingenuous as the BBC broke the Robinson storey, and they have given many minuets of air time to the Robinson's predicament, unlike that of the other leader Adams.
If the allegations of lying and cover-up for a paedophile were laid at any other leader than Adams, the media reaction would be like that of the Robinson's.
In every interview Gerry has changed the events, facts and timelines. It is not as if he did not have time to get the facts or time lines of what Liam was up to and where.
As the UTV programme first contacted Gerry Adams at the end of the summer of 2009 for an interview, and it was only a few day’s before broadcasting that he finally gave that interview. So if Gerry can't get his story straight and every week the story changes what are we to think, the only conclusion must be that there is something to hide and a cover-up has been set in place to protect Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein.
The question now that needs to be asked, what justice can an ordinary nationalist & republican get if the victim in this case, the nice of Sinn Fein/IRA president and MP for West Belfast, is being obstructed and de-victimized by Sinn Fein/IRA?
Nationalists & republicans need to remember Sinn Fein/IRA, have form in this type of activity. The recent murders and cover up’s involving Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn, the slow release of information to the families of the disappeared and the character assassination of the disappeared, and the character assassination of Robert McCartney’s sisters and the family of Paul Quinn. Do not bode well for ordinary nationalists & republicans getting Sinn Fein/IRA justice and fairness, even in a paedophile case!!!
Gerry Adams is a serial denier. Adams the man who all through his life has denied being in the IRA, and has denied his full roll in several infamous incidents during the so called troubles, he even denied knowing if he was abused? So Adams, form in this issue is hardly unfamiliar to him.
Here I believe is the issue that goes to the heart of the matter an issue that nationalists & republicans are in complete denial about. Adams has blatantly told lies and half truths over many years. He is a master in the tactics of deflection, spin and victim-hood, all the tactics he has used in this case.
The issue of the blatant lies that Adams is coming out with are of concern for the nationalist & republican voters. They need to re-examine and revaluate what type of people and party they want to represent them.
The ordinary nationalist & republican needs to get the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, collective monkey off their backs, and see Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA for what they really are. Until ordinary nationalists & republicans, realize that Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA have a vested interest in keeping their communities and electorate subjugated then the cycle of some old, same old in nationalist & republican areas will continue forever.
I’m sure there are more of these cases, and at some stage they will be forced out, to affect the nationalist & republican communities. Remember Robert McCartney and Paul Quinn, if Sinn Fein/IRA can clean up and cover up murders, there is nothing they won’t stoop too, to cover up for the party’s apparatchiks or other IRA members in a sexual abuse allegation against ordinary nationalist & republican people!!!
To quote Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Change the government, to Sinn Fein and this seems to sum up everything in nationalist & republican communities!!!
More shifting stories on the Liam Adams departure form Sinn Fein, in the latest BBC NI news Gerry said that he got Liam to leave Sinn Fein.
However, that is a shift form his first statement when he said, he moved immediately to get him dumped out of Sinn Fein without telling people why, he went on to say he moved very, very quickly.
So Gerry what is it, did he go or was he pushed.
Another interesting aspect to this is, if Gerry got Liam to leave there must have been some type of conversation as to why he was being asked to leave Sinn Fein. During that conversation, we can only assume that Gerry told Liam that it was because he believed what Liam’s daughter had told him about the sexual abuse allegations.
Why then did Liam feel the time was right to rejoin Sinn Fein again in Gerry’s own west Belfast constituency???
Republican Ardoyne the place even republicas hate to go to
This is a tale of two cities, they are only seventy odd miles apart, but with the politics of Sinn Fein you would think they where on different continents. We’re referring to Belfast, and Londonderry.
If you don’t mind I will start with Londonderry.
Londonderry is Northern Ireland’s second city, its located in the north west of the country. It is predominantly a roman catholic, nationalist, republican city. It has a nationalist MP, and is the home city of the deputy first minister, deputy leader of Sinn Fein, Londonderry IRA 2IC and member of the IRA’s army council, Martin McGuinness. Sinn Fein as we all know is the political wing of the IRA, and they have from partition long strived to remove the Unionist, British people from their homeland of Northern Ireland. This has taken various forms over the years; however Sinn Fein/IRA will be mostly remembered for the 30 odd years of their murderous terror campaign. A campaign, in which Martin McGuinness with his various rolls in the IRA, played a very active part. Not satisfied with bombing and shooting us they also attempted to demonise the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist people including our culture.
However, Martin McGuinness has in more recent times appeared to have had a road to Damascus conversion, a conversion to allegedly more peaceful and conciliatory ways.
Londonderry was entered into the competition for United Kingdom city of culture 2013. Bizarrely, it was proposed by the nationalist, republican community of Londonderry and Martin McGuiness actively lobbied for the city of his birth, to become United Kingdom city of culture 2013. This is a strange situation, because for years McGuinness denied Londonderry’s very existence and its place as a part of the UK. He used the IRA’s murderous terror campaign to try and remove it from the UK? He still refuses to call the city by is name of Londonderry. However for the lobbying to succeed, McGuinness needed it to be seen as a cross community bid. The Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist people of Londonderry were then asked to participate. This they did knowing the financial benefits of a winning bid for the city.
Winning the UK city of culture will put Londonderry on the map, not for what it is best known for now. It’s divided murderous republican sectarian terrorist past. The city of culture accolade would give the city the make over and the new image it requires. And hopefully the city would now be recognized as a city with a varied cultural heritage and a brighter future for all. In winning the UK city of culture there is also an economic benefit; theoretically all sections and communities will share in this. There is an expectation of new employment and inward investment, a boost in the tourist economy and of course the expansion in the cultural diversity. An acceptance of all aspects of culture in the city, this is the anticipated expected benefits of being UK city of culture. The expected financial benefits have been put at 100million being brought into the local economy with as yet an unidentifiable number of new jobs.
The Unionist community of Londonderry have cautiously bought into this bid, suffering considerably as they did during the sectarian IRA terror campaign. A campaign that drove nearly all the Protestants, Unionists and Loyalist form the west bank of the city side. Now the only remaining Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community on the west bank is the tiny Fountain community, consisting of only a few streets. The Fountain community are constantly coming under sectarian attack from their republican and roman catholic neighbours. These sectarian attacks intensify around the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist celebrations and cultural events of the 12th of July, the Apprentice Boy’s of Derry celebrations and cultural events of August, December and Easter and the Royal Black Institution parades. These Protestant Fraternal Loyal Cultural organisations are known as the Loyal Orders. The Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist celebrations take the form of Religious, Cultural events, Bonfires, Re-enactments and the most visible aspect, the Cultural Parading. The most visible aspect takes the form of men; women and children from the Loyal Orders parading with flags, banners and marching bands. The Loyal Orders strive to keep Northern Ireland as an integral part of the UK. They teach their children to be good citizens with respect and compassion for all, to take an active part in charitable works and make every effort keep their cultural heritage alive. The Loyal Orders are an anathema to republicans, nationalists and roman catholic’s. They are very vociferous and physical in their opposition to the Loyal Orders, using parades to carry out sectarian attacks on parades and Orange Halls. Nationalists and republicans take every opportunity to demonise, disrupt and contrive offence at parades, using misleading propaganda and the threat of violence.
With Londonderry now being awarded the UK’s city of culture for 2013, this obviously secures as part of the bid the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist culture of parading. Therefore an acceptance by nationalists and republicans in Londonderry the right of the Loyal Orders to display their culture of parading. The loyal Orders can now anticipate no further sectarian republican demonstrations or violence at the parades in Londonderry from now on!
I will now move to Belfast, and to North Belfast. This is an area that is defined as an area that has many interfaces and peace lines, both physical and imaginary.
I now want to take you to the Crumlin road, an area that has both physical and imaginary peace lines. It has a Unionist MP, and Unionist and nationalist and republican MLA’s
The exact area of the Crumlin road, I refer to. Is the area from the junction with Twaddell Avenue, Woodvale Road, and Crumlin Road, running 100m north along the locally known area of the Ardoyne shop fronts, although they are on the Crumlin Road, and not in Ardoyne. The shop fronts consist of a credit union, a babies clothes shop, a florist, butchers, a hair dressers, a Spar and post office, an off licence and fast food take-a-ways. Facing the shop fronts is an ambulance station and public library.
Gerry Kelly is one of the Sinn Fein faces of republicanism in Ardoyne. He and his party are responsible for the street politics that blight our streets, and protests at Loyal Order parades. He is best known as the Old Bailey bomber and Maze prison escaper. While engaging in his escape from the Maze prison, using a gun smuggled into him in prison he shot a prison officer in the head at point blank range. He is an MLA, for north Belfast, but his power base is in the Ardoyne, the area at the rear of the shop fronts on the Crumlin Road. These shops are owned by and used by all sections of the community.
The Crumlin Road is a main arterial road leading from Belfast City centre to the hills overlooking Belfast. It is a road used by all of Belfast’s communities. It is not designated a Unionist road nor republican road, it is a main arterial road. In recent times the small section of road as described above, has been a source of confrontation, by Gerry Kelly of Sinn Fein/IRA, nationalists, dissident republicans and other republican groups. They continually indulge in the dangerous activity of street politics, of demonstrations and sit down protests, in their deplorable and despicable attempt to create an imaginary peace line, and religious, political and cultural apartheid, further ghettoising Ardoyne.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, are shamefully attempting to make this area a no go area for Protestants, Unionists and Loyalists. The republicans are politically motivated in their cynical attempt of creating an area of religious, political and cultural apartheid, further ghettoising themselves in Ardoyne.
This attempt at religious, political and cultural apartheid overtly manifests itself when the Loyal Orders, wish to use this section of main road to meet the rest of their fraternal and cultural friends at parades in other parts of the city and beyond. This is notwithstanding the fact that this area and the shops are owned used by all sections of the community. The new migrant community, the longer established Chinese community, the Indian community, the local Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community as well as the republican community. The shops are utilised for their wares, the post office by the elderly to get their pensions, the public library for books and local information and the fast foot take-a-ways for exotic foreign food.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, and the actions of these republicans must surely be discriminately and illegal against Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community! Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, and the other republican groups, wanted and got an independent commission to decide on alleged continuous parades. The independent Parades Commission was set up. It has made many determinations and has given the Loyal Orders permission to use this section of road; with only one restriction. That restriction being fully complied with by the Loyal Orders! The restriction is the non playing of music, from the Everton Complex to the Twaddell Avenue, Woodvale Road Crumlin Road junction. The 100m stretch of the shop fronts.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, unsurprisingly disagreed with the independent parades commissions’ determination, and vowed to hold a protest. The independent parades commission instantly imposed restrictions on the republican’s protests due to the violence at their previous protests. Regrettably again this year, it proved to be no different from previous years, with 3 days and nights of sectarian republican rioting.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, the dissident republicans and the other republican groups, protest consisted of republicans coming form all over Ireland to prevent the Loyal Orders peacefully making their way home. The parade taking less than 5minutes to pass along this stretch of road with no music! The republicans then displayed their legionary insecurity in the form of perceived victimhood and celebrated alleged offence. The various republican groups protesting started with a street demonstration, moving onto and blocking the road. These protests inevitably lead to the sectarian rioting we seen on our TV screens. With an orgy of gratuitous sectarian republican violence, burning vehicles and buildings, throwing petrol and blast bombs and shooting at police. These actions can never be described as those of a lawful, respectful and peaceful community, which has allegedly bought into the new policing dispensation.
Republican violence that involved children as young as eight years of age, the child rioters being used as child human shields for petrol and blast bombers and gun men out to murder police officers.
Serious questions now need to be asked of the republican community of Ardoyne?
What type of community engages in 3 days gratuitous sectarian violence for the sake of a parade that takes less than 5 minutes to pass along a main arterial road?
What type of community allows its children to be put onto the front line of sectarian rioting to be human shields for murderous bombers and gun men?
Why does this community engage in the politics of sectarianism and bigotry, and religious, cultural and political Apartheid?
This is an insight into how Sinn Fein acts more like a political party with multiple issue disorder and shows a schizophrenic approach to the culture of Protestants, Unionists and Loyalists. This from Sinn Fein an alleged modern grown up political party, who obviously don’t make good on the guarantees contained in their policy statements.
They fain offence, they revert to their default position the very dangerous activity of street politics. When their street politics turns violent they refuse to take responsibility and blame everyone form the Loyal Orders the police to the weather, everyone but themselves. Gerry Kelly on behalf of Sinn Fein continually refuses to take any reasonability for the disorder. Disorder that was brought about by Sinn Fein’s street politics. Kelly counters by continuing to spew out the venomous Sinn Fein sectarian propaganda on their perceived and continuing victimhood and how the Loyal Order parade is forced through Ardoyne. Gerry Kelly cynically and knowing full well that the Loyal Order parade does not go into Ardoyne; however it never stops him repeating his sectarian propaganda.
It’s probably lost on the voters of Ardoyne, that when Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, dissident republicans and the other republican groups, engage in their street politics and the inevitable outcome is an orgy of gratuitous sectarian violence. Is it not obvious to them that it’s a barrier to investment in jobs and economic regeneration of Ardoyne. The millions of pounds that this gratuitous sectarian republican violence will cost will adversely affect this obvious dysfunctional and disaffected Ardoyne community. With little or no chance of jobs and now less money for Ardoynes’ much needed housing stock.
The people of Ardoyne need to look at the positive roll that Martin McGuinness is giving in Londonderry, and his embracing of the Loyal Order Culture, allowing all the communities in Londonderry to enjoy the benefits of the UK city of culture and the anticipated financial boost.
The Ardoyne electorate should look Gerry Kelly straight in the eye and ask him these questions?
What has Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein their street politics, protests and gratuitous sectarian violence, positively achieve for the nationalists and republicans of Ardoyne?
Will Kelly’s and Sinn Fein’s continuing ghettoising of Ardoyne have any positive economic benefits now or ever, and if so can he explain how??
Sinn Fein spawned, indoctrinated, and cultivated an Uber underclass of disaffected republican youth.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates republican youth with false idealistic notions of the IRA and their murderous activities and membership.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates them with victimhood and an ultra sensitivity to being offended.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates the republican youth with anti British and Unionist hatred.
Sinn Fein creates ghettoes and isolation that fester republican youth resentments.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates the impressionable republican youth that they are worthless.
Sinn Fein created the situations for republican children’s limited life chances.
Sinn Fein discards the republican youth when they have no more use for them.
Sinn Fein has discarded generations of republican youth.
Sinn Fein marginalises its republican youth in their own communities.
Sinn Fein politicians manipulate the republican youth.
Sinn Fein use young republicans after all that’s what they are for.
Sinn Fein continually fails the republican people.
Gerry Kelly and Martin McGuinness are now adopting a diametrically opposite view when it comes to Loyal Order parades and economic progress for their respective communities. I know if I were a republican where I would want to be, and it’s not in Ardoyne.
Gerry Kelly’s and Ardoyne Sinn Fein’s policy of religious, political and cultural Apartheid and ghettoising of Ardoyne is a very dangerous step back to 19th Century politics.
To sum up, in Londonderry, Martin McGuinness and Sinn Fein have embraced the Loyal Orders culture of parading. However his junior minister and party colleague Gerry Kelly along with the republican dissidents and the other republican groups in Ardoyne are engaged in a blatant sectarian and bigoted attempt of religious, political and cultural Apartheid and the continuing ghettoising of their Ardoyne community!
A direct plea to the good people of Ardoyne people from all the people of the Shankill.
As a Unionist community we don’t get involved with the complex issues and the internal power struggles within republican communities especially that of Ardoyne. Unlike Gerry Adams, Gerry Kelly and the propaganda machine of Sinn Fein, that takes great delight in demonizing our community and culture.
We’re sure the good people of Ardoyne are drowning in the tears of hurt, doubt, confusion and shock. After the rioting that went on in their name in recent times.
However, if we may can we make a direct appeal to the good people of Ardoyne. Like the Shankill, Ardoyne is a working class community. However, we have learned long ago that street politics doesn’t work; and political parties with a single agenda only lead to less opportunity and low or no attainment. Political parties that set out to separate and ghettoise their communities, only promote fear, suspicion and resentment which they manipulate for their own ends.
After the events of the last few weeks, we would like to make another plea to you. Is now not the time the good people of Ardoyne, took a long hard look at what goes on in their midst, and what has or more importantly not been achieved. Is now not the right time, in fact some within your community may well think it’s well overdue for the good people of Ardoyne to reject the tyranny of street politics and demonstrations and single agenda parties. Is now not the right time to awaken to your problems and plight, take responsibility for what goes on in your community and end the culture of blaming others and build a better future the better future you deserve? Is now not the right time to remove the Charlatans within your community and free yourselves form their tyranny, so you can move on as a progressive community, and a community at ease with your Unionist neighbours. If the good people of Ardoyne can show the maturity and foresight that we know they have, you will not find us wanting. Because it is only being together that we will prosper and grow, and our children will enjoy the benefits of that prosperity and the inevitable peace that only a shared future will bring a shared future we all need, want and deserve!
If you don’t mind I will start with Londonderry.
Londonderry is Northern Ireland’s second city, its located in the north west of the country. It is predominantly a roman catholic, nationalist, republican city. It has a nationalist MP, and is the home city of the deputy first minister, deputy leader of Sinn Fein, Londonderry IRA 2IC and member of the IRA’s army council, Martin McGuinness. Sinn Fein as we all know is the political wing of the IRA, and they have from partition long strived to remove the Unionist, British people from their homeland of Northern Ireland. This has taken various forms over the years; however Sinn Fein/IRA will be mostly remembered for the 30 odd years of their murderous terror campaign. A campaign, in which Martin McGuinness with his various rolls in the IRA, played a very active part. Not satisfied with bombing and shooting us they also attempted to demonise the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist people including our culture.
However, Martin McGuinness has in more recent times appeared to have had a road to Damascus conversion, a conversion to allegedly more peaceful and conciliatory ways.
Londonderry was entered into the competition for United Kingdom city of culture 2013. Bizarrely, it was proposed by the nationalist, republican community of Londonderry and Martin McGuiness actively lobbied for the city of his birth, to become United Kingdom city of culture 2013. This is a strange situation, because for years McGuinness denied Londonderry’s very existence and its place as a part of the UK. He used the IRA’s murderous terror campaign to try and remove it from the UK? He still refuses to call the city by is name of Londonderry. However for the lobbying to succeed, McGuinness needed it to be seen as a cross community bid. The Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist people of Londonderry were then asked to participate. This they did knowing the financial benefits of a winning bid for the city.
Winning the UK city of culture will put Londonderry on the map, not for what it is best known for now. It’s divided murderous republican sectarian terrorist past. The city of culture accolade would give the city the make over and the new image it requires. And hopefully the city would now be recognized as a city with a varied cultural heritage and a brighter future for all. In winning the UK city of culture there is also an economic benefit; theoretically all sections and communities will share in this. There is an expectation of new employment and inward investment, a boost in the tourist economy and of course the expansion in the cultural diversity. An acceptance of all aspects of culture in the city, this is the anticipated expected benefits of being UK city of culture. The expected financial benefits have been put at 100million being brought into the local economy with as yet an unidentifiable number of new jobs.
The Unionist community of Londonderry have cautiously bought into this bid, suffering considerably as they did during the sectarian IRA terror campaign. A campaign that drove nearly all the Protestants, Unionists and Loyalist form the west bank of the city side. Now the only remaining Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community on the west bank is the tiny Fountain community, consisting of only a few streets. The Fountain community are constantly coming under sectarian attack from their republican and roman catholic neighbours. These sectarian attacks intensify around the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist celebrations and cultural events of the 12th of July, the Apprentice Boy’s of Derry celebrations and cultural events of August, December and Easter and the Royal Black Institution parades. These Protestant Fraternal Loyal Cultural organisations are known as the Loyal Orders. The Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist celebrations take the form of Religious, Cultural events, Bonfires, Re-enactments and the most visible aspect, the Cultural Parading. The most visible aspect takes the form of men; women and children from the Loyal Orders parading with flags, banners and marching bands. The Loyal Orders strive to keep Northern Ireland as an integral part of the UK. They teach their children to be good citizens with respect and compassion for all, to take an active part in charitable works and make every effort keep their cultural heritage alive. The Loyal Orders are an anathema to republicans, nationalists and roman catholic’s. They are very vociferous and physical in their opposition to the Loyal Orders, using parades to carry out sectarian attacks on parades and Orange Halls. Nationalists and republicans take every opportunity to demonise, disrupt and contrive offence at parades, using misleading propaganda and the threat of violence.
With Londonderry now being awarded the UK’s city of culture for 2013, this obviously secures as part of the bid the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist culture of parading. Therefore an acceptance by nationalists and republicans in Londonderry the right of the Loyal Orders to display their culture of parading. The loyal Orders can now anticipate no further sectarian republican demonstrations or violence at the parades in Londonderry from now on!
I will now move to Belfast, and to North Belfast. This is an area that is defined as an area that has many interfaces and peace lines, both physical and imaginary.
I now want to take you to the Crumlin road, an area that has both physical and imaginary peace lines. It has a Unionist MP, and Unionist and nationalist and republican MLA’s
The exact area of the Crumlin road, I refer to. Is the area from the junction with Twaddell Avenue, Woodvale Road, and Crumlin Road, running 100m north along the locally known area of the Ardoyne shop fronts, although they are on the Crumlin Road, and not in Ardoyne. The shop fronts consist of a credit union, a babies clothes shop, a florist, butchers, a hair dressers, a Spar and post office, an off licence and fast food take-a-ways. Facing the shop fronts is an ambulance station and public library.
Gerry Kelly is one of the Sinn Fein faces of republicanism in Ardoyne. He and his party are responsible for the street politics that blight our streets, and protests at Loyal Order parades. He is best known as the Old Bailey bomber and Maze prison escaper. While engaging in his escape from the Maze prison, using a gun smuggled into him in prison he shot a prison officer in the head at point blank range. He is an MLA, for north Belfast, but his power base is in the Ardoyne, the area at the rear of the shop fronts on the Crumlin Road. These shops are owned by and used by all sections of the community.
The Crumlin Road is a main arterial road leading from Belfast City centre to the hills overlooking Belfast. It is a road used by all of Belfast’s communities. It is not designated a Unionist road nor republican road, it is a main arterial road. In recent times the small section of road as described above, has been a source of confrontation, by Gerry Kelly of Sinn Fein/IRA, nationalists, dissident republicans and other republican groups. They continually indulge in the dangerous activity of street politics, of demonstrations and sit down protests, in their deplorable and despicable attempt to create an imaginary peace line, and religious, political and cultural apartheid, further ghettoising Ardoyne.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, are shamefully attempting to make this area a no go area for Protestants, Unionists and Loyalists. The republicans are politically motivated in their cynical attempt of creating an area of religious, political and cultural apartheid, further ghettoising themselves in Ardoyne.
This attempt at religious, political and cultural apartheid overtly manifests itself when the Loyal Orders, wish to use this section of main road to meet the rest of their fraternal and cultural friends at parades in other parts of the city and beyond. This is notwithstanding the fact that this area and the shops are owned used by all sections of the community. The new migrant community, the longer established Chinese community, the Indian community, the local Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community as well as the republican community. The shops are utilised for their wares, the post office by the elderly to get their pensions, the public library for books and local information and the fast foot take-a-ways for exotic foreign food.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, and the actions of these republicans must surely be discriminately and illegal against Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community! Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, and the other republican groups, wanted and got an independent commission to decide on alleged continuous parades. The independent Parades Commission was set up. It has made many determinations and has given the Loyal Orders permission to use this section of road; with only one restriction. That restriction being fully complied with by the Loyal Orders! The restriction is the non playing of music, from the Everton Complex to the Twaddell Avenue, Woodvale Road Crumlin Road junction. The 100m stretch of the shop fronts.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein and the other republican groups, unsurprisingly disagreed with the independent parades commissions’ determination, and vowed to hold a protest. The independent parades commission instantly imposed restrictions on the republican’s protests due to the violence at their previous protests. Regrettably again this year, it proved to be no different from previous years, with 3 days and nights of sectarian republican rioting.
Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, the dissident republicans and the other republican groups, protest consisted of republicans coming form all over Ireland to prevent the Loyal Orders peacefully making their way home. The parade taking less than 5minutes to pass along this stretch of road with no music! The republicans then displayed their legionary insecurity in the form of perceived victimhood and celebrated alleged offence. The various republican groups protesting started with a street demonstration, moving onto and blocking the road. These protests inevitably lead to the sectarian rioting we seen on our TV screens. With an orgy of gratuitous sectarian republican violence, burning vehicles and buildings, throwing petrol and blast bombs and shooting at police. These actions can never be described as those of a lawful, respectful and peaceful community, which has allegedly bought into the new policing dispensation.
Republican violence that involved children as young as eight years of age, the child rioters being used as child human shields for petrol and blast bombers and gun men out to murder police officers.
Serious questions now need to be asked of the republican community of Ardoyne?
What type of community engages in 3 days gratuitous sectarian violence for the sake of a parade that takes less than 5 minutes to pass along a main arterial road?
What type of community allows its children to be put onto the front line of sectarian rioting to be human shields for murderous bombers and gun men?
Why does this community engage in the politics of sectarianism and bigotry, and religious, cultural and political Apartheid?
This is an insight into how Sinn Fein acts more like a political party with multiple issue disorder and shows a schizophrenic approach to the culture of Protestants, Unionists and Loyalists. This from Sinn Fein an alleged modern grown up political party, who obviously don’t make good on the guarantees contained in their policy statements.
They fain offence, they revert to their default position the very dangerous activity of street politics. When their street politics turns violent they refuse to take responsibility and blame everyone form the Loyal Orders the police to the weather, everyone but themselves. Gerry Kelly on behalf of Sinn Fein continually refuses to take any reasonability for the disorder. Disorder that was brought about by Sinn Fein’s street politics. Kelly counters by continuing to spew out the venomous Sinn Fein sectarian propaganda on their perceived and continuing victimhood and how the Loyal Order parade is forced through Ardoyne. Gerry Kelly cynically and knowing full well that the Loyal Order parade does not go into Ardoyne; however it never stops him repeating his sectarian propaganda.
It’s probably lost on the voters of Ardoyne, that when Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein, dissident republicans and the other republican groups, engage in their street politics and the inevitable outcome is an orgy of gratuitous sectarian violence. Is it not obvious to them that it’s a barrier to investment in jobs and economic regeneration of Ardoyne. The millions of pounds that this gratuitous sectarian republican violence will cost will adversely affect this obvious dysfunctional and disaffected Ardoyne community. With little or no chance of jobs and now less money for Ardoynes’ much needed housing stock.
The people of Ardoyne need to look at the positive roll that Martin McGuinness is giving in Londonderry, and his embracing of the Loyal Order Culture, allowing all the communities in Londonderry to enjoy the benefits of the UK city of culture and the anticipated financial boost.
The Ardoyne electorate should look Gerry Kelly straight in the eye and ask him these questions?
What has Gerry Kelly, Sinn Fein their street politics, protests and gratuitous sectarian violence, positively achieve for the nationalists and republicans of Ardoyne?
Will Kelly’s and Sinn Fein’s continuing ghettoising of Ardoyne have any positive economic benefits now or ever, and if so can he explain how??
Sinn Fein spawned, indoctrinated, and cultivated an Uber underclass of disaffected republican youth.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates republican youth with false idealistic notions of the IRA and their murderous activities and membership.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates them with victimhood and an ultra sensitivity to being offended.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates the republican youth with anti British and Unionist hatred.
Sinn Fein creates ghettoes and isolation that fester republican youth resentments.
Sinn Fein indoctrinates the impressionable republican youth that they are worthless.
Sinn Fein created the situations for republican children’s limited life chances.
Sinn Fein discards the republican youth when they have no more use for them.
Sinn Fein has discarded generations of republican youth.
Sinn Fein marginalises its republican youth in their own communities.
Sinn Fein politicians manipulate the republican youth.
Sinn Fein use young republicans after all that’s what they are for.
Sinn Fein continually fails the republican people.
Gerry Kelly and Martin McGuinness are now adopting a diametrically opposite view when it comes to Loyal Order parades and economic progress for their respective communities. I know if I were a republican where I would want to be, and it’s not in Ardoyne.
Gerry Kelly’s and Ardoyne Sinn Fein’s policy of religious, political and cultural Apartheid and ghettoising of Ardoyne is a very dangerous step back to 19th Century politics.
To sum up, in Londonderry, Martin McGuinness and Sinn Fein have embraced the Loyal Orders culture of parading. However his junior minister and party colleague Gerry Kelly along with the republican dissidents and the other republican groups in Ardoyne are engaged in a blatant sectarian and bigoted attempt of religious, political and cultural Apartheid and the continuing ghettoising of their Ardoyne community!
A direct plea to the good people of Ardoyne people from all the people of the Shankill.
As a Unionist community we don’t get involved with the complex issues and the internal power struggles within republican communities especially that of Ardoyne. Unlike Gerry Adams, Gerry Kelly and the propaganda machine of Sinn Fein, that takes great delight in demonizing our community and culture.
We’re sure the good people of Ardoyne are drowning in the tears of hurt, doubt, confusion and shock. After the rioting that went on in their name in recent times.
However, if we may can we make a direct appeal to the good people of Ardoyne. Like the Shankill, Ardoyne is a working class community. However, we have learned long ago that street politics doesn’t work; and political parties with a single agenda only lead to less opportunity and low or no attainment. Political parties that set out to separate and ghettoise their communities, only promote fear, suspicion and resentment which they manipulate for their own ends.
After the events of the last few weeks, we would like to make another plea to you. Is now not the time the good people of Ardoyne, took a long hard look at what goes on in their midst, and what has or more importantly not been achieved. Is now not the right time, in fact some within your community may well think it’s well overdue for the good people of Ardoyne to reject the tyranny of street politics and demonstrations and single agenda parties. Is now not the right time to awaken to your problems and plight, take responsibility for what goes on in your community and end the culture of blaming others and build a better future the better future you deserve? Is now not the right time to remove the Charlatans within your community and free yourselves form their tyranny, so you can move on as a progressive community, and a community at ease with your Unionist neighbours. If the good people of Ardoyne can show the maturity and foresight that we know they have, you will not find us wanting. Because it is only being together that we will prosper and grow, and our children will enjoy the benefits of that prosperity and the inevitable peace that only a shared future will bring a shared future we all need, want and deserve!
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