A Tangled Web

TURNING JUSTICE ON IT'S HEAD.



Once more onto the breach. Ubercop Hugh Orde has agreed to meet the representatives of those killed allegedly by a "notorious loyalist death squad" in South Armagh following a damning documentary that implicated several former RUC and the UDR officers in its murder campaign. The gang, which is also believed to be behind the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, was exposed last week in the BBC documentary (where else?) which claimed it had killed scores of Catholics with impunity in South Armagh and Tyrone. Orde said he was prepared to meet with the victims' representatives to discuss the allegations made in the documentary.



"I am happy to meet with the representatives of the Pat Finucane Center and a delegation of international human rights lawyers so that we can pursue a genuine and meaningful approach to dealing with the difficult issues of the past for all of the people who have been hurt," Orde said.



Hang on one moment. Is the same Hugh Orde who recently talked about providing amnesty for brutal IRA killers on the run - the sort that infested and were given succour in South Armagh? Is the same Hugh Orde who has made it clear that all those thousands of unresolved terrorist murders committed by the IRA may never be solved because of lack of resource? The sort planned and executed from South Armagh?



It seems to me that Hugh Orde has become the paramilitary's preferred choice as Chief Constable. His political-dealing and empty-headed posturing to suit his masters in the NIO sickens me, and I suggest that a large section of the law abiding pro-Union community are increasingly repelled by the antics the PSNI's top man. What does it profit a man that he gains the salary of a Chief Constable but loses his soul?