Comments on The Pensive Quill: Reneging

Roisin, ‘And all i could do was point got that he...

2011-05-08T09:40:25.049+01:00

Roisin,

‘And all i could do was point got that he may not be one of your prisoners BUT HES ONE OF YOUR CASUALTY'S
OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT AS IS GERRY MCGOUGH’.
A very apt way of putting it.

Frankie,

Good point to raise. Yet it is well suppressed in public discussion

we had a very similar report for bl,any one in jai...

2011-04-29T22:07:41.276+01:00

we had a very similar report for bl,any one in jail now and being kept under political licence really have a fight on their hands as iv witnessed with BL,and i have to assume that psf have indeed accepted these men as criminals as they are not active in getting them released. I had sinnfein at my door yesterday and again challenged them about BL and the answer i got as they walked away from my door is BL ISNT ONE OF OUR PRISONERS. SAYS IT ALL REALLY. And all i could do was point got that he may not be one of your prisoners BUT HES ONE OF YOUR CASUALTY'S OF THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT AS IS GERRY MCGOUGH

Helen, I think the date on the release letter was ...

2011-04-29T17:24:01.507+01:00

Helen,
I think the date on the release letter was a typing error. Probably deliberate (more than likey a silly mind game)...
If Gerry McGeough has to spend two yrs in prision then why isn't it applied everyone?
Martin McGuiness was the OC (or involved at a high level) with the PIRA in Derry at the time of Joanne Mathers death...So why isn't he charged with with holding information, complicity in murder....Or at the very least why wont he tell everything he know that went on in his watch and become an informer himself and lead from the front....?
http://smokey.homelinux.net:8080/irl/news.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1300712497&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&
Both events happened in the same time period (during the '81 hunger strikes) and for the same reasons. To end British occupation in ireland.
Same could be asked to Gerry Adams concerning the death off Jean McConville. Brendan Huhes has already stated his version of events..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brVN1A6pG_Q
JMO.. It wasn't too long ago when volunteers were set up as in Loughgall once they started upsetting the apple cart..But today 'they' can't have blood on their hands. So instead of setting them up (people who upset the apple cart)...'they' shut them up instead.
Orwell was close to the truth...."All men are born equal....."
I guess Gerry isn't equal enough in some peoples eyes....

frankie, 'I'm disgusted that hand-picked &...

2011-04-29T13:40:02.190+01:00

frankie,
'I'm disgusted that hand-picked 'on the runs' have received preferential treatment – and can come home and lead normal lives with their families – while others can't or if they do return are living in fear, always looking over their shoulders."

I totally agree with you. The GFA should have included EVERYONE not just a 'few.'

I'm probably not the brightest spark in the wo...

2011-04-28T23:40:10.427+01:00

I'm probably not the brightest spark in the world but even I understood this....

“This is to certify that Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to extend Her Grace and Mercy unto (name removed) and to pardon and remit to him the unserved portion of all the fixed term sentences of imprisonment imposed on him at Belfast on 12 June 1981.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/queen-pardoned-ira-fugitive-14753412.html#ixzz1KrNd1Gy6

Maybe the truth lies behind cloesd door's....

"There was a secret deal between the British and Sinn Féin. A meeting was held in a Dundalk hotel. I'm disgusted that hand-picked 'on the runs' have received preferential treatment – and can come home and lead normal lives with their families – while others can't or if they do return are living in fear, always looking over their shoulders."

http://www.tribune.ie/article/2010/mar/07/former-ira-men-given-immunity-in-secret-deal/#c10933

It's wrong....

You hit the nail on the head, Dixie. That some ci...

2011-04-28T21:25:12.760+01:00

You hit the nail on the head, Dixie.

That some civil servant can still write in such an insulting and dismissive manner to a republican prisoner is aggravating. The almost casual usage of that dreaded word 'criminal' would give any self respecting blanket man nightmares.

What were the years 1976-81 all about?

Did ten of our bravest and finest die on hunger strike so that some jumped up bureaucrat at the NIO could refer to the past activities of a 'provisional' IRA volunteer as "habitual criminal behaviour", thirty years later.?

This is another example of a systemic disregard for all things republican despite what Gerry and Martin claim to have achieved to the contrary.

Expect little in the way of protest from that quater of the park.

Dixie abbsolutely perfectly put. SF are constituti...

2011-04-28T13:14:09.311+01:00

Dixie
abbsolutely perfectly put. SF are constitutional unionists in a green coat. No need for a fuss. Only SF deny it, everyone else knows it.
But of course for some reason, God only knows what that reason is, they cannot let go of the green rag and rhetoric.

If PSF accept this then they might as well accept ...

2011-04-27T21:35:50.046+01:00

If PSF accept this then they might as well accept that Bobby Sands and his nine comrades were after all criminals and what therefore did they die for?

Or is the image of Bobby which looks down on us from giant SF election propaganda posters saying that Republicans opposed to Sinn Fein are criminals?

I doubt Bobby or any of the nine other brave men would have died on Hunger Strike if they had for one moment envisaged that the so called leadership would one day become the most powerful propaganda weapon in the hands of the Brits and could so brazenly use the criminalising wordage of Thatcher...

To Quote Bobby:

"They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal."

They have done all of the above to what remains of the Provos.