Comments on The Pensive Quill: Position Document: Non-Conforming Republican Pris...

dejavu and DEPRESSING. a tired community is unfort...

2011-03-05T13:17:52.270Z

dejavu and DEPRESSING.
a tired community is unfortunately more or less disinterested. if SF learned anything it would be pulling out all the stops to defuse this.

SF are too busy celebrating in the South. They are...

2011-03-02T18:24:12.098Z

SF are too busy celebrating in the South. They are even more disgusting than Gorby time's CPSU.

Spot on Fionnula!

2011-03-02T10:31:25.197Z

Spot on Fionnula!

People should be demanding answers from political ...

2011-03-02T09:46:16.967Z

People should be demanding answers from political representatives in relation to this.
I can't help feeling we are actually letting them off the hook, letting them turn a blind eye.
Sinn Fein are due to gain a lot of political mileage using the legacy of what took place in the prisons in 81, should they be allowed to totally obscure the events taking place in the prisons in 2011, surely not!

This is totally obscene! Until Alec raised this is...

2011-03-01T22:49:44.936Z

This is totally obscene! Until Alec raised this issue a few days ago I think people genuinely believed that the strip searching had stopped.
It is almost surreal to think all this is happening to Republican prisoners and it has been practically kept contained.
I think all of us should feel more than a little ashamed about this one.

30 years ago this day Bobby Sands began his hunger...

2011-03-01T20:06:32.542Z

30 years ago this day Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. What was it for if this type of regime is allowed to prevail? Every brutal act or degrading strip search devalues any gains achieved by that hunger strike and associated protests. In this day and age strip searching is a primitive in your face act of aggression. Anybody who refuses to submit to one deserves support