The media were quick to point out this morning that Gerry Adams has "apologised" to the family of a 12-year old boy his comrades blew to pieces 14 years ago. In reality it was more a series of excuses than an apology and the fact that the media report it in the way that they have is just one example of their will to happily stoop to scary levels to promote the current DUP/IRA administration here.

Anyway, in an attempt to explain away why his buddies saw fit to blow the shit out of people, Gerry came off with a few doozies. I especially liked this MOPE.

"nationalists and republicans ... were denied basic human and civil rights, including the right to vote"
Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein President, Canary Wharf, 2007

We're all used to Sinn Fein playing it a bit fast and loose with the "truth", but this is blatant over-simplification to the point where I'm content it constitutes a lie.

One man one vote operated for all elections in Northern Ireland to Stormont and Westminster. The property franchise (basically one ratepayer one vote) used in local council elections was not a demonic plot hatched by evil unionists to stop nationalists voting. It was a system in use for and inherited from British local elections and was changed to one man one vote in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s - a piffling 23 years before the IRA felt so oppressed they had to go blow some people up at Canary Wharf.

Go on Gerry, pull the other one.

The fact that Adams still, in a time of so-called peace and co-operation, has to perpetuate these myths to demonise unionists and unionism and use lies to retrospectively justify a murder campaign waged against Northern Ireland (and Great Britain) for thirty years belies the fact that there was no justification for the damage Gerry and his friends have done to this country and its people.

I feel compelled to once again direct readers to John Whyte's excellent How much discrimination was there under the unionist regime, 1921-68