A Tangled Web

THE RISE OF THE IRISH BROWNSHIRTS...



A very good article by Alan Ruddock in the ST here on the success of the IRA's proxies in the Irish elections held on Friday.



Two excerpts make the point;



"It was a grim election day for Fianna Fail and its Progressive Democrat partners, but it was an even grimmer one for our democracy. Out of all the mixed messages from the Irish voters there was one that was stridently clear: we have no problem with a party that operates its own private army, that beats and mutilates teenagers and which engages in daily criminality.

Sinn Fein, unreformed, unrepentant and run by some of the people who run the Provisional IRA, is now an accepted part of our political system and well on course to join the next government of this state. Its electoral support can no longer be seen as just a protest vote or a passing trend: Sinn Fein is firmly established across the country. Even Limerick, home to Jerry McCabe, the garda gunned down by its armed wing, happily gave its votes to the party."



And then this..



"We should hang our heads in shame, but instead we will pretend that by rewarding moral bankruptcy we somehow defeat it, and that by choosing to ignore Sinn Fein’s links to criminality we somehow hasten the day when Adams accepts that it must end. Instead, all we do is embolden him and his ilk to believe that they can get away with any lies, with any deceit and with any crime: they have raised their fingers in our face and we have kissed them. It couldn’t get any grimmer than that."