A Tangled Web

Terrorists Preach Pacifism



Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein candidate for Dublin in the forthcoming European elections, has launched an attack on what she sees as the 'militarisation of the EU'. Coming from a party that has considerable expertise on 'militarisation', such an announcement should have the capacity to cause convulsions of laughter across the democratic world.



Let's just pause and consider the magnitude of the duplicity on display here. Sinn Fein is a thinly-veiled front for a murder machine without statistical comparison in contemporary Europe. The 'Republican Movement' (of which Sinn Fein is an integral part) murdered - in cold blood - over 1800 people throughout the Troubles: it has murdered over thirty more since the signing of the Belfast Agreement. It is a movement that has done nothing about decommissioning its weapons of mass destruction, other than the most nugatory of gestures designed to curry favour with a compliant media and a gullible, ethically bereft constituency. It is a movement that inflicts terrible physical punishments on a daily basis; and it is a movement that is far from reticent in demonstrating its contemptuous ambivalence towards the loved ones of those it executed.



Beneath the combination of political schmaltz and Armani suits there lies a force that is utterly ruthless in its desire to take power on the island of Ireland. Moreover, it is a force that will employ every 'militaristic' means at its disposal if it deems the circumstances prudent to do so. Taking all of this into account, one should think it a little hypocritical for this collection of thugs to articulate any policies that seek to remove the very legitimate weaponry harboured by democratic states as a means to defend themselves.



Finally, I thought I would end this thread on a humorous note. If one cares to study the link in detail, McDonald takes the concept of hypocrisy to stratospheric heights. She actually has the gall to say that one of the party's priorities will be to campaign for: 'an end to Irish involvement in the arms trade and profit from war.' How deliciously refreshing!!! Sinn Fein/IRA - the force that involves itself every single day in the imbroglio of clandestine arms trading; the force that churns its profits from street warfare, drugs, prostitution and racketeering into further stomach-churning propaganda, now seeks to lecture a democratic government on the conduct of its affairs. Pass the sick bag please!!!