A Tangled Web

Feeney and Nationalist Sclerosis



I won't dwell for too long on this week's whinge by Brian Feeney. Extensive concentration on the literary bile produced by this self-serving, petulant hack leaves one feeling distinctly nauseous.



Nonetheless, one noteworthy paragraph in this week's example of Feeney's customary lucubration, is his take on the political leanings of Northern Ireland civil servants. By arguing that: 'Pro-Union civil servants at Stormont have once again their dead hand on the administration of the Good Friday Agreement', Feeney offers an insight into Irish nationalist perspectives on the exequaturs of UK sovereignty. Civil servants are employed by the State to uphold the rules, regulations, vested interests and integrity of the State. Do idiots such as Feeney automatically equate a sense of duty to the State with partisan attitudes in favour of Unionist culture and believes? Probably!!! It is this view, for example, which led to the destruction of the RUC, and the reason why Sinn Fein/IRA will never endorse the present police service. It has nothing to do with the police acting as the 'armed wing of Unionism' and everything to do with the raison d'etre of police forces throughout the world - upholding the authority and legitimacy of the State in which they operate.



Feeney has, once again, overlooked sensible argument to enable him to retreat into a quagmire of eternal nationalist grievances just because the State will not override the wishes of an obvious majority within a portion of its realm. How sad he is, and how pathetic!!!