A Tangled Web

Remember Sha-La-La



David Ervine, the only man in British politics who requires a sentence of 42 words to say 'good morning', has confidently predicted the transformation of the IRA into something resembling an old soldiers organisation. So reports Henry McDonald in today's Observer. Yesterday, at the PUP 'party conference' (with an audience probably consisting of three morons, two drug dealers and an anti-Christ), the moustachioed multiloquent forecast the end of the Provisional Movement by way of some sort of ceremony. I wonder if it could be a saturnalian piss-up where Provisional scum gather round to tell ripping yarns of all the murders they carried out? Ervine then went on to say that 'loyalists will respond positively' if the IRA goes out of business.



First of all, Davy needs to be told that 'loyalists' were anything but. The organisation of which he was a member was, and is, a brutal killing outfit, loyal only to the ideology of sectarian slaughter. Those in the Unionist community who were really loyal to the Union demonstrated their affinity through participation in the legal forces, not in a pseudo-Mafia contingent who chose to murder at will. Secondly, the very sight of a man who claims a mantle of sanctimoniousness by reassuring us that the end of his own illegal crew is dependent only upon the disappearance of another illegal crew, is nauseating in the extreme. Like the IRA, the UVF must be given an ultimatum: disarm and disband otherwise the forces of the State will take appropriate action.



How wise the mass of Unionist were to avoid indulging in the electoral legitimacy of terror. Their example is a lead most nationalists should choose to follow.