A Tangled Web

A Silver Lining?



A few months ago I wrote a letter to the Belfast Telegraph urging Unionist voters to boycott goods and services made in the Republic of Ireland if Sinn Fein/IRA received a significant mandate there. I have since made good my advice, and I now refuse to purchase items (as far as is possible) which have origins in that particular country. My stance is simple: if a sizeable proportion of the Republic's electorate are prepared to subsume decency and moral rectitude beneath a perverse enchantment with a foul and bloody militia, then the economy of that country should be penalised in the same way South Africa was during the apartheid years.



I now appears the ramifications of Sinn Fein/IRA lickspittling may be far more severe than my principled tokenism. Justice Minister, Willie O'Dea, expresses concern about the implications for American investment in the Southern economy should Sinn Fein continue their infestation of the democratic arena. I suspect those American investors are far more cognizant of Sinn Fein's Marxian economic policies than most of the axiologically amateurish cretins who gave them a mandate.



People in the Republic now face a stark choice. They can either continue elevating a terrorist-linked organisation whose constitutional objective are - ultimately - unattainable, and risk destabilising the entire socio-political and economic fabric of the State; or they can work to ensure the success of the territory they inherited after 1921. It is their call. Should they opt for the former, they deserve every economic sanction the international business community can bring to bear.