Comments on The Pensive Quill: Revisiting 1981

How can SF deputy 'dawg' stand at Stormont...

2011-08-05T10:45:18.317+01:00

How can SF deputy 'dawg' stand at Stormont with darth-vader calling republicans traitors and O'Dowd call them murderers and then SF demand someone's release.

Wise up folks, maybe it's not just SF who are involved in self delusion. Are people waiting for SF to see sense? What, since 1996?
Wake the fuck up people.

I see that bigot and waster Campbell has put his t...

2011-08-04T20:04:32.227+01:00

I see that bigot and waster Campbell has put his twopence worth into this despicable and blatant abuse of human rights,ie the release of Brendan Lillis on humanitarian grounds,if it was near to impossible for that dipstick of a so called justice minister Ford to make a reasonable decision.in wades Campbell to crank up the secterian tension,he says Brendan should remain in gaol and be treated there untill he is better and fit to stand trial, that bigot is the man who said that the paras involved in the Bloody Sunday murders were innocent, yet again when it comes to justice for anyone from the nationalist community,Campbell and others show their true colours.psf should now show some balls and make sure Brendan is released if just to show the dup bigots that they they have some say in the way this joke of a country is run,

Statement from The Friends of Brendan Lillis. Fol...

2011-08-04T14:48:16.714+01:00

Statement from The Friends of Brendan Lillis.

Following from the depressing and non-productive meeting yesterday during which David Ford adopted a Pontius Pilot attitude to the plight of Brendan Lillis we wish to state that we have absolutely no confidence in David Ford as a Justice Minister.

David Ford serves no agenda commensurate with justice, by his own admissions he is a powerless figure within a justice system which has failed to address the case of Brendan Lillis.

We appeal to all political parties in the Stormont Assembly and to all people concerned with human rights and the dignity of man to support our calls for the removal of a man unqualified and incapable of doing the job of administering justice.

David Ford is a political appointee; he can be removed from his position as quickly as he was awarded it. ends.

Gerard Hodgins 07549663246

Roisin Kane 07543800824

There doesn't seem to be much mention af Raymo...

2011-08-04T12:07:57.082+01:00

There doesn't seem to be much mention af Raymond McCartneys input at the meeting. Did he speak?

A meeting took place today with Justice Minister D...

2011-08-04T09:18:40.259+01:00

A meeting took place today with Justice Minister David Ford over the continued imprisonment of Brendan Lillis.

Present at the meeting was Roisin Lynch, partner of Brendan Lillis, along with Gerard Hodgins; Tim Atwoood and Colm Eastwwod from the SDLP, and Jennifer McCann and Raymond McCartney from Sinn Fein; Brendan’s solicitor, Sean O’Neill, also attended the meeting.

Commenting after the meeting Roisin Lynch said:

“It was a very depressing and sad meeting. David Ford gave me the run-around again, placing the onus on the Life Review Commission and claiming he can do nothing about the case.

“We appealed to him to make the correct decision from a humanitarian point of view, but our pleas feel on deaf and indifferent ears.

“I fear now that David Ford will not release Brendan until he is either dead or only a matter of hours from death. I did not detect any compassion or justice from the Justice Minister today.”

Roisin Lynch 07543800824

Gerard Hodgins 07549663246

Dixie spot on. Adams always wheeled out old timer...

2011-08-04T00:14:17.911+01:00

Dixie

spot on. Adams always wheeled out old timers to gain credibility for his antics/agenda.

Perhaps a few profile ex prisoners turning up at Stormont with a support crowd would finally expose SF. That would be something I would travel to support.

Ford just so happens to be a diluted Orange Man wh...

2011-08-03T23:16:27.877+01:00

Ford just so happens to be a diluted Orange Man who got the job because the DUP didn't want a Gerry Kelly about the place and the Shinners didn't want a Stoop there either.

You're right Mackers I'm sure a protest of former prisoners would shake up Stormont. Imagine all the former internees, Cage men, Armagh women, Blanket men etc marching on Stormont or wherever Ford dispenses British justice from?

The problem sadly seems to be apathy.

I wonder if BL had been from the loyalist communit...

2011-08-03T22:34:47.036+01:00

I wonder if BL had been from the loyalist community would we be witnessing such a travesty,I somehow doubt it,

Aine, The shinners just sold a horse and bought a...

2011-08-03T22:31:54.025+01:00

Aine,

The shinners just sold a horse and bought a saddle. That's what all the suffering and dying amounted to.

Nuala,

I guess you are right about him being dragged there.

Mackers, depressing news indeed. I'm not quit...

2011-08-03T22:27:12.280+01:00

Mackers,
depressing news indeed. I'm not quite sure if Mc Guinness stepped up to the plate or if political expediency demanded he be forcibly dragged there.
Everything Sinn Fein has done in relation to the prison crisis is both laboured and choreographed.
It would be such a delightful twist of fate if the issue that actually made Sinn Fein became the issue that would eventually break them.

Well Said Mackers - I honestly had hope today for ...

2011-08-03T22:13:28.089+01:00

Well Said Mackers - I honestly had hope today for Roisin's meeting with that cunt but I was obviously to bloody stupid thinking that he might actually act like a fellow human being and release a dying man into the arms of his family !!!
It makes me sick - and also glad that i no longer have to live around such excuses of human beings who feel that it is ok to let a fellow human literally rot away in a prison cell.

I wish that people would wake the fuck up and realise that their society hasn't got better ...... the fuckin brits released the price sisters on compassionate grounds once if i'm not wrong (even though they've locked up poor Marion again).

In regard to 1981 - I know what i'd like to do to those fuckers who call themselves politicians.

I feel nothing but hate and rage right now so i'm probably not even making sense !!!!!