Firstly we are constantly being told by the provisional republican movement in the guise of IRA/Sinn Fein, that they are at peace and the war is over. However we shouldn't forget this non murdering phase was foisted upon them by the events of September 11 2001.
The Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist people need to be mindful that the provisional republican movement’s objectives have not changed just their current means of achieving those means.
“They haven’t gone away you know” and “the Armalite and the ballot box”!
Two of the republican movement’s most ardent mantras! The provisional IRA have allegedly decommissioned however we will never know? However, there are still many other IRA terrorists out there, many of them ex-provos willing and able and taking up were the provisional republican movement left of. The political wing of the provisional republican movement, Sinn Fein, will take any advantage gained from the current crop of IRA terrorists. So the two mantras above are as relevant today, as the time they were uttered by Gerry Adams and Danny Morrison.
In this era of republican peace you would think the provisional republican movement would assist the PSNI or the Historical Enquiries Team; in the handing over of information on their former IRA colleges the alleged dissident IRA murderers and bombers. Especially those from the provisional republican movement who are in positions power and leadership at Stormont. Well they haven't be helping the PSNI or HET. This can only be seen as evidence of the provisional republican movement strategic political thinking and riding two campaigns at once.
I said alleged dissident IRA because this is a media term that is over emphasized at every report. The glaring issue is there are too many provisional IRA members in their ranks for them to be dissident. Only a short time ago these same provisional IRA members were regarded as mainstream and heroes.
The provisional republican movement have taken this strategic decision, judging that at this moment in time is a good time to go through a politically expedient non-murdering phase? As I mentioned above the provisional republican movement’s current non murdering phase and current political position has to be seen in the context of their and in particular Sinn Fein’s slump in support in the US post 9/11. They never fully bought into the GFA, not until it was politically expedient for them.
To save face the republican movement had to sell the peace as a win for them, to their submissive sycophant supporters. However the reality was very different. The republican movement did not achieve the united Ireland they murdered for. The Irish government changed their constitution the remove articles 2 and 3. And the leaders of the republican movement are now at Stormont administrating British rule (very poorly) in Ireland. Overturning 90years of their anti-British opposition to any British rule in Ireland, a very strange type of provisional republican win?
That said we should not forget as many Unionist politicians seem to have. That the provisional republican movement did not come out and fully support the Good Friday Agreement. However to listen to any spokesperson from the provisional republican movement, you would think it was they alone who dragged the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist people screaming and kicking to vote for the peace through the GFA. How ironic and classic republican revisionism!!!
The provisional republican movement came to this new phase in their campaign with an inbuilt insecurity, as it was infiltrated at the highest levels, by British Intelligence (Dennis Donaldson and Freddie Scappaticci). This has given them a complex where they see collusion everywhere. And isn’t it ironic that Dennis Donaldson was murdered by IRA dissidents. These same IRA dissidents who Martin McGuinness’s later called Irish traitors, expedient or what?
Politically the provisional republican movement refuses or should that be can’t throw off the shackles of their past, especially that of the hunger strikers. They are therefore shackled to their ex IRA prisoners and their past. Add to this their own very special brand of victim-hood, revisionism and perceived insecurity; and they are in a political paralysis. Therefore the provisional republican movement are caught on the horns of a dilemma.
To move forward means leaving their past behind, and to do so would mean leaving their ex IRA prisoners behind. However they have a too many ex-prisoners, who are now looking for their payback. Not just in cash terms but in terms of republican community power and influence. The ex IRA prisoners are now using their influence to ensure political nepotism. The price the ex IRA prisoners are demanding is in jobs at Stormont. This is because as ex IRA prisoners they have had an exclusive and commanding roll as alleged community workers in republican areas for many years. Having to constantly look over its shoulder at these ex IRA prisoners and this constant ex-prisoner navel gazing leaves the provisional republican movement in a political paralysis.
This position of ex IRA prisoner special adviser and election candidate is seen to have a secondary benefit that of irritating Unionists. This is notwithstanding the very real hurt and distress it causes the victims of these ex IRA prisoners. As IRA victims, the provisional republican movement don’t these victims as victims and regard them as irrelevant, insignificant and invisible. Just look at the provisional republican movement indignant rage at the media’s faux fury at the appointment of convicted IRA murderer Mary McArdle(McArdle now well established as special advisor to Sinn Fein minister Carol Cullen).
The provisional republican movement’s inability or more likely their reluctance to improve the prospects for their electorate leaves them in a paradox and this is systematic of their political revisionism and political paralysis. This paradox means that a more affluent, socially mobile and middle class nationalist/republican electorate is less likely to vote for a party/movement that is Marxist.
For verification of this we just need to look at the reaction from middle class nationalists and the roman catholic churches maintained education sector’s. Just look at the furore there was from these groups at Sinn Fein’s decision to scrap the 11+. However due to the provisional republican movement dogma and desire to be seen to be punishing the Unionist middle classes, they pushed on and scraped the 11+ regardless. And to ensure that this dogma is continued they have held on to the education portfolio at Stormont.
A prosperous nationalist/republican electorate is an oxymoron, and counterproductive to the provisional republican movement. This is why the provisional republican movement puts their ex-prisoners in front line of their politics. They are their best foot soldiers at promoting the provisional republican movement’s Marxist dogma. In limiting of the life chances of the vast majority of nationalist children and their electorate, and in keeping their electorate ghettoised and insecure, who better to do this than the IRA ex-prisoner foot soldiers. Ex-IRA prisoners who know how to take orders and repress republican communities.
We the Protestant/Unionists /Loyalist people are constantly being told by the republican movement, to move on and put our past behind us. But how are we collectively the Protestant/Unionists /Loyalist people along with wider society supposed to move on. When the provisional republican movement holds onto their past like a comfort blanket and trail it out with childish regularity.
The core of this issue is the only people the provisional republican movement are deluding is that of their electorate. They have never deluded Protestant/Unionists /Loyalist people. All this talk from the provisional republican movement, on moving on is only empty rhetoric. The only thing that the provisional republican movement is doing is antagonizing the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist people. However that seems to be playing well to the republican gallery.
With little in the way of economic or social gains the provisional republican movement’s, drone like electorate will still be there making their X’s and 123’s. To think republicans used to claim that Unionist voters were blinded by their narrow view of events. It seems that the provisional republican movement’s electorate will vote Sinn Fein no matter how little prosperity and social mobility they achieve for their children or themselves, strange type of logic. At least they can’t lay that at the door of Unionists.
So there you have it, no matter how little Sinn Fein delivers for their electorate, no matter how much hypocrisy and Sinn Fein/IRA nepotism they indulge in. The provisional republican movement’s electoral cannon fodder will continue to vote for them, sheep like. Can it be that it is more important that provisional republican movement’s electorate perceive Sinn Fein as teaching the nasty Unionists and British a lesson. And this perceived teaching a lesson to Unionists and the British is far more important than making their electorate more prosperous.
The provisional republican movement’s electorate needs to wake up and start smelling the coffee. The provisional republican movement are carrying on their squalid petty sectarian campaign form Stormont, in councils and on the ground and the more effort they put into this the less time they have for the real needs of their electorate.
To all those who voted Sinn Fein, you need to ask yourself two simple questions? 1 Do I want Sinn Fein carry on their petty sectarian campaign?
or
2 Do I want Sinn Fein to provide the education that our children need in the 21stcentury, to bringing the jobs we all need and want and provide the health and social care we all need?
If you answered 1 you are getting great value for your vote. If however you want 2. The more time Sinn Fein spends on the first question, the less time they can spend on doing what is really needed in the second question.
So it comes down to this, vote Sinn Fein and keep IRA/Sinn Fein paramilitary nepotism, limited social mobility and limited life opportunities!
Sinn Fein is living up to their Most Oppressed People Ever (M.O.P.E) title with renewed vigour.
Please check out the following link to get an insight into some clear thinking in republican west Belfast.
http://sluggerotoole.com/2008/03/20/gerry-must-go…
Watch the clips in the links below to listen to the republican movement’s never ending revisionism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgL9VxxwMdA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXu8fIxRFQ
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