A Tangled Web

Good Riddance!

 

One less terrorist in the world makes it that little bit cleaner for the rest of us.  Thus, I was overjoyed this morning to wake up to the news that 'veteran republican' (a euphemism for an advocate of murder), Joe Cahill, has shuffled off this mortal coil (hopefully to a plain significantly hotter).  In an obsequious, nay, hagiographic obituary provided on the Sinn Fein website, the present leader pays homage to a man 'who fought when he felt that was the only option.'

 

For the readers of A Tangled Web unfamiliar with the nuances of republican-speak, Adams is simply excusing the man who led the IRA in the early 1970's when it was engaged in its most devastating killing campaign of innocent men, women, children and servants of the Crown.    Cahill was IRA Chief of Staff at the time of Bloody Friday; though I would guess Mr Adams would find some sort of weasel excuse to justify the holocaust which took place in Belfast during that fateful July day in 1972.



Moreover, Cahill was not averse to terminating human life himself.  In 1942 he killed a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and was only granted a reprieve from the death penalty on the intervention of the Vatican:  a church which became talented a few years later by helping prominent Nazis escape to Argentina.    I have yet to find out the name of the officer who was murdered.  It certainly does not appear on any republican website I have trawled through.  Then again, releasing his name might have made the murdering bastards realise that he was a person, as opposed to a target to be slain in the name of the IRA's bloodthirsty lustings.



Doubtless the streets of Belfast's republican ghettos will be thronged with well-wishers as the Godfather is wheeled to his final resting place.  The republican guard will have dug deep into their pockets to fund a funeral led by a stately hearse.  Given Cahill's morals, I think it would be more fitting if the coffin was placed in a garbage cart.