A Tangled Web

Selective Amnesia



Today marks the 25th anniversary of the cold-blooded, calculated murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten. He was sailing on his private yacht, Shadow V, off the coast of Mullaghmore in the Republic of Ireland, when an IRA bomb killed him, his grandson Nicholas (14), Paul Maxwell (15), and the mother-in-law of his own daughter. Hours later, 6 soldiers of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment and 12 soldiers of the Queen's Own Highlanders were murdered in separate explosions near Warrenpoint in Co Down.



Given that today marks a 1/4 of a century since the slaughter, I decided to have a look on Sinn Fein's website to see if there was any trace of repentance or remorse at such an evil act. Silly me, of course not!! Why should this movement need to feel apologetic for its heinous crimes when its supposed historical legitimacy has now been approved by 180,000 moilers at the ballot box? All I could actually find on the Brownshirts' web was this story about some terrorist low-life who mercifully starved himself to death in Parkhurst prison.



Seems strange that a party which is soooo quick to remind everybody else of their alleged misdeeds is notably reticent in bringing closure to the atrocities it committed. Never mind, it just gives we democrats another excuse to increase our level of indescribable loathing for Irish republicanism and the plebs who subscribe to its doctrines.