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paul connor [Visitor] in response to: More "Anything You Can Do..." Action

paul connor [Visitor] — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:39:45 +0000

Mr. Levee,
I think your right about the S.F. response,
Given the past ideology of â€œthe Republican family" - it was even the name of a party in the South, I think, this response ,for me as a Protestant, will hardly mitigate the suspicion that the separation of the dissidents is not far as they say, and that overlapping commitments for large numbers of Republican activists is a very real possibility.

However even if separation is absolute, it still (prehaps more so) justifies a much, much slower pace of demilitarisation, (now let me say I support (mutual) normalisation passionately - I'd love to go on nature walks and that in south Armagh*............), as if these guys have said 'so long' too the sophisticated political engine of S.F., then they will no longer be restrained by S.F.'s commitment to international popularism, and, without concern for the judgements of daddy America, who knows what atrocities they'll go for ..........
(Priority number one for these boyos is going to be making a big statement to hoist up the banner for all the young 'uns to see, I'd say)
* dont laugh, im serious ! maybe baskin' Gaskin could show me round, introduce me to his mates............

levee [Visitor] in response to: More "Anything You Can Do..." Action

levee [Visitor] — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:54:25 +0000

Paul

Wait and see. I predicted something like this when the 'big statement' came out.

The Sinn Fein line will be "The are dissidents and don't have the sanction of the IRA, therefore nothing to do with us. Sorry, you can't pin this one on us."

It'll be like trying to blame the DUP for the Loyalist feud. Fantastic smokescreen!

paul connor [Visitor] in response to: More "Anything You Can Do..." Action

paul connor [Visitor] — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:18:58 +0000

It will be interesting to note whether or not Mr. Hain reacts with the same determined swiftness to protect the community and up hold law and order on the strength of these actual incidents as he was to grant concessions galore on the grounds of the supposed intentions of the I.R.A. to stop doing these things

Now that we have 100% proof that we have not seen the last of Republican terrorism - how can the further reduction in security be justified? surly this should be a time for the maximum security, given that the Sinn Fein command has now (apparently) lost all authority/commonality with those still intent on killing the prods, are these terrorists not now at their most dangerous ?
Or is it "acceptable level of violence" time again?
( N.B. I often wonder if Hain does indeed still hold a romantic view of 'anti-establishment' terrorism and violence like his colleges Livingstone and Short or his former college Galloway...
When I think of some of the pigies in the labour movement, I donâ€™t know......how
do people like Galloway sleep at night?
and when the shit hits the fan over here, when the blatant mistake of lowering security at the border is revealed not only by an increase of the operational capacity of the Republicans , but by the U.V.F./U.F.F. teams merrily driving back and forth ......will Hain feel even the slightest pang of remorse or responsibility?)