A Tangled Web

Less Reasons to Stop at Morrison's



Sinn Fein/IRA's own DH Lawrence and interrogator extraordinaire (just ask Martin McGartland), Danny Morrison, takes a bold step towards rewriting history to suit the 'truth' according to warped republicanism, in a recent edition of the Andersonstown News. Believing that we democrats have the memory span of a goldfish, republicans twist the actual turn of events in ways which would make Peter Mandelson incandescent with envy.



The willingness of the Andersonstown News to publicise the writings of a man with a bloody and highly dubious history says much about the calibre of the rag. That said, the conviction with which republican terrorist propagandists project their own stomach-churning lies in a vain attempt to proselytise decent people is, frankly, astonishing. In Morrison's view, the Troubles were the fault of the British State in having the audacity to uphold its territorial integrity in accordance with conventional defensive procedures: a territorial integrity validated by international law and given credence by the democratic preferences of the general populace. As we know, democracy and Sinn Fein/IRA don't mix very well. For Morrison and his ilk, 'righteousness' only pertains to Irish republican fundamentalism and those prepared to butcher innocents in its name.



Oh, and how they could butcher. Notwithstanding Morrison's contention that: 'it wasn't just the IRA which was fighting - but all sides were still at war and entrenched, including the British Army and loyalist paramilitaries', the statistical attributions of murder to the respective groups tell a different story. As the vast majority of the Unionist people (in sharp contrast to their nationalist counterparts) hold no affection for loyalist paramilitarism, it would be wise to view the following table in terms of terrorists versus State forces. We can clearly see which groups had a virtual monopoly on human misery. Yet today, the terrorist groups are still intact whilst the forces employed to lawfully subdue them have been disbanded at the behest of terrorist proxies.



Meanwhile, the most comprehensive anti-discrimination measures anywhere in the Western world have been implemented to give Irish nationalists a better sense of themselves over the last three decades. They respond by electorally endorsing IRA puppeteers in larger numbers than ever before. When it comes to comprehending what passes for elementary human propriety, I think Irish nationalists are the slowest learners of all.