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Sinn Fein Sense of Humour Discovered
This is quality stuff. After republicans tried to force an innocent taxi-driver to become a reluctant bomber last night, and a crowd threw petrol bombs and other missiles at the police, a Sinn Fein councillor has today told us that as usual, it's all the police's fault.
You'll all be well aware that it is standard policy for Sinn Fein to blame everything that happens in Northern Ireland these days on PSNI "heavy-handedness" (perhaps they realise how ridiculous the term brutality sounded when used to refer to over-sized water pistols?) but this really is a new low.
Police are called about a bomb in a car in a GAA club car park. They arrive, concerned that such calls are sometimes made to lure them into an ambush, discover the threat is real and call in the army to make the device safe.
While guarding the scene a mob assembles and begins to pelt them with petrol bombs, bricks, bottles etc. and Sinn Fein councillor Michael Fallon did condemn what happened but in a bid to hold on to the votes of the scumbags who elected him in the first place, he went on to claim the police brought the attack on themselves.
Heavy-handedness? Someone needs to take a heavy hand to Michael Fallon, preferably one adorned with a knuckle-duster*.
Follow up:
While Fallon rambled on about building an Ireland of equals or whatever Sinn Fein talk about these days, some politicans had more rational comments to make on the issue.
"The taxi driver, understandably, abandoned the vehicle in an area probably where there was the least number of houses and then informed the police. When the police cordoned off the area, a crowd gathered and started to petrol bomb the police. It is known that there are dissidents in that area and we are very much aware of dissidents continuing to corrupt our young people."
Dolores Kelly, SDLP
"I understand the device was in a barrel form and was a very credible device and could have done damage and we could have had fatalities in the Lurgan police station.
This comes days after we are given another statement from the Provisional IRA saying they have ordered their men to stand down and everything is going to be hunky-dory. Now we see the credibility of that statement again."
Upper Bann DUP MP David Simpson
* Everything Ulster and the site operator(s) do not condone the use of violence. The vocabulary used in this post is solely intended to illustrate the author's anger at the complete and utter moral bankruptcy of the councillor in question.