A Tangled Web

WHAT IS A "PARAMILITARY STYLE" BEATING?



The moral and political equivocation of the BBC is exemplified in this report of what they call "a paramilitary-style" mutilation of a man in Newtownards. Let's be clear. It either WAS or WAS NOT a paramilitary beating. It is not good enough to imply it is a paramilitary beating whilst attaching a caveat suggesting that it may not have been after all! We all know that this word formation is designed to soothe the nerves of those lotus-eaters in high political office whose job is to pretend that we have peace when we do not.



This attack was assuredly carried out by the UDA or UVF. Therefore it WAS a paramilitary beating. It was one more breach of their ludicrous oxymoronic cease-fires.