A Tangled Web

The State in Retreat



How many times have we heard the Brownshirts banging on about 'demilitarisation'? If you believe the words of Adams, McGuinness, Doherty, Kelly et al (as sadly many thousands of contemptible jackasses on the island of Ireland now do), you would hardly think there had been any retreat by the legitimate forces of the British State. However, the Belfast Telegraph has come across statistics showing up to a third of the original troop levels have disappeared since the signing of the Belfast Agreement.



Terrorism still continues. The IRA recruits, trains, targets and acquires weapons under its own name; and performs acts of terrorism with explosives under one of its 'dissident' labels of convenience. It has made a few measly gestures in ridding itself of old weapons for nothing other than propagandistic emboldenment, though nothing which normal standards of democracy could countenance. Simultaneously, so-called 'loyalist' terrorists busily carve working class Unionist area into fiefdoms of paramilitary control without so much as a peep from elements of the PSNI. In spite of all this the essential back-up forces of legal authority in a part of the United Kingdom have been ordered out in droves.



If a time ever exists when terrorists in Ulster have been obliterated, that's when troop levels should return to 'normal peace time levels'. Not one moment before!!