A Tangled Web

Reynolds' Disgusting Flattery

 

Stop Press!!  'Today, representatives of nationalist Ireland were up in arms after former British Prime Minister, John Major, praised prominent loyalist terrorists, Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and Michael Stone.  Mr Major also said what an angelic figure Billy Wright had proven to be and that, following a brief handshake with the former leader of the LVF back in 1996, confessed to not washing his hands for a week.  He said it was a great pity that a superstar such as Billy Wright had been taken in a cruel, premature way - adding that "our loss was heaven's gain."'

 

There is, thankfully, no such article.  British Prime Ministers (past and present) are not in the habit of lionising foul terrorist murderers for the purposes of cheap publicity.  The same, self-evidently, cannot be said for prominent ex-leaders of the Irish Republic.  Yesterday, as one of the most evil men of 20th Century British society was sent packing to the conflagrating Hades where he will, hopefully, languish for a long time, former Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, heaped praise on Joe Cahill at his West Belfast funeral.  Reynolds opined 'he was a remarkable man and he played a major part.'

 

He was indeed a remarkable man, Albert.  He dedicated much of his woefully long life to ensuring that decent, innocent men, women and children had comparatively short lives.  He helped to establish, unarguably, the most prolific murder machine in western Europe: a machine well oiled by its evil, its obsession with an erroneous take on history, and its determination to wreak as much havoc as possible.   Will Albert now be rushing to atone for his revolting flattery by speaking to the living relatives of victims cut down in their prime thanks to the 'remarkable' Cahill?  Don't be silly, of course he won't.  We couldn't expect any measure of rectitude from a man who had to resign his position as Fianna Fail party leader over a political cover-up involving a known paedophile priest.



One distant day, the ever-dwindling constitutionally-minded proponents of Irish nationalism, their supporters, and the idiotic Irish American lobby will wake up to the fact that people who perpetrate acts such as this are no different from the people who perpetrated acts such as this.