Comments on The Pensive Quill: How could it get better for the British?

In answer to your question Martin, the alleged hig...

2013-04-08T20:18:12.208+01:00

In answer to your question Martin, the alleged high number of unionist catholics might exist, so affording them the place to put their WMD once Scotland ceeds from the union! Derry or Belfast docks.
Your piece on 'internment by licence', what do you expect? They bought the leaders and let those they could not buy rant from the sidelines in Brendan, Dolorus, Gerry, et. al.
They use their new friends up in Stormont to talk down to all whom disagree.
If only an Dorchas and Dolorus had survived longer to put the bowsies in their boxes before the next election with truth rather than spin.

2 Official IRA volunteers remembered

Martin, a good piece. Did they see it coming? If ...

2013-04-07T12:37:49.299+01:00

Martin,

a good piece. Did they see it coming? If they negotiated a top man's agreement which allowed certain leaders to avoid the drop, but not activists in general, then we have strong grounds to suspect that they did see it coming but in the rush for office decided to let the devil take the grassroots. Others may not have seen it coming. Those who have consistently displayed no foresight can hardly be accused of seeing anything coming one way or the other.

I think that Feeney is right in suggesting the leadership were led to believe that there would be an unspoken amnesty. Did they believe it when it was conveyed to them? We don't know. They have enough experience of the British to mistrust them. But there was an atmosphere at the time which probably lent istelf to being confident about the future. But like the Pat Finucane matter it seems not to have survived the Tories. Now we have drift and increasing disillusionment as the failure of the struggle becomes all too hard to deny. A few suits in office does not a victory make.

The fact that quisling $inn £ein were duped and ou...

2013-04-06T23:33:15.530+01:00

The fact that quisling $inn £ein were duped and outmaneuvered in the negotiations that led up to the signing of the gfa is now beyond doubt,had that party leadership or its members been in anyway true to the republican ideals that so many suffered for including many of those in the leadership, been honest and accepted that the brits being the masters of double speak were not serious about bringing true and lasting peace to this part of the world,they could have and should have walked a long time ago,and retained some right to call themselves republican,however the illusion of power and greed has not only embedded them into the corruption that is Stormont it has morphed republican revolutionaries into fully fledged members of the british establishment willing to meet and greet the big chief Liz the brit herself,denounce former comrades and implement conservative policies to the detriment of the very people they claim to represent,as stated in other posts on TPQ quisling $inn £ein have lost any right to be referred to as republican.I would go even further and say that they have no right to claim they represent the underprivileged members of this society,its against this background that the british need never worry about truth and reconciliation when they have puppets like q$£ doing their bidding for them ..