A Tangled Web

Feeney Watch - 28.08.04



This week, Bigoted Bri (BB) concentrates on the re-shuffle in the Irish Republic's cabinet. Customarily exaggerating the degree to which Northern Ireland influences the internal politics of the Irish State, BB expresses disappointment that the present incumbent at the DFA, Brian Cowen, has 'been a disappointment for northern nationalists, never developing any agenda to drive the Good Friday Agreement.' Presumably BB is slightly pissed off at the fact that Cowen could never make good his aspiration to see all vestiges of Britishness removed from the governance of Northern Ireland. Me thinks BB would only have been satisfied with the sight of Cowen on horseback, leading an army of genocidal maniacs across the border with the express intention of forcibly removing every Unionist from the island of Ireland.



BB dangles the prospect of IRA disbandment in front of an wearied electorate, stating that 'it is entirely in the interest of republicans to surrender weapons and stand down the IRA in order to compete with Fianna Fail in the Republic's next election.' Mmmm, let's look at how the retention of a fully-armed Provisional movement has hampered Sinn Fein's success so far shall we, folks! In 1996, two years after the so-called 'ceasefire', Sinn Fein received 116,377 votes at the Forum elections. At last year's Assembly elections they received 162, 758 votes. Simultaneously, they have increased representation exponentially in the Republic, and have received an incalculable plethora of undeserved concessions due to the threat of a private army.



Correct me if I'm wrong, people, but the presence of the IRA hasn't done much to stymie the growth of Sinn Fein as they seek to ingratiate themselves with an ever more disgusting electorate. As long as the IRA hovers in the background, Sinn Fein will accrue strength - not see it diminished. Irish people have prostrated themselves by the thousand at the feet of these murderers, so why should the political fumigation of cordite further increase their appeal?