"Do you support a Bill of Rights which is unique to Northern Ireland, which imposes an array of socio-economic commitments upon the Assembly which are incalculable in scale, incapable of being costed and will require substantial funding which will almost certainly have to be borne by the local taxpayer?"

Ask that question and see if you can get three-quarters of respondents to say "Yes". Alex Kane thinks you'd struggle and I'd say he might be right.

People's responses can be easily shaped using meaningless platitudes some feel-good buzzwords. It's a fact that politicians frequently rely on. Surely you'd have to be a monster to object to something with the word "Rights" in it. You're not a monster, are you?

Kane also points out the fallacy of the arguments used in favour of the Bill of Rights (as well as the proposed Truth Commission): "It worked in South Africa so it is necessary here."

Northern Ireland is not and never was like South Africa or central America. To argue that it was is simply to play along with the Republican propaganda that "justified" a terrorist campaign against a majority population.