Comments on The Pensive Quill: Getting Stopped

MH = life is to short for regrets! lol

2013-05-11T02:05:06.984+01:00

MH = life is to short for regrets! lol

Fenian- I know you mean Sinn Fein and i know i am...

2013-05-10T23:03:01.458+01:00

Fenian-

I know you mean Sinn Fein and i know i am going to regret asking this but what does SPF stand for-i have heard of the SPL but not your one-

Fenian ..so what. !

2013-05-10T21:49:43.457+01:00

Fenian ..so what. !

Sean, Mike Nesbitt has now pulled out of a SPF o...

2013-05-10T18:59:37.596+01:00

Sean,

Mike Nesbitt has now pulled out of a SPF organised conference on a shared future becuase of the attitude displayed last night by O'Dowd. When will we ever learn about pandering...

Wada ya expect Alec a cara a wee thingy like a se...

2013-05-10T13:58:18.887+01:00

Wada ya expect Alec a cara a wee thingy like a section number or the upholding of civil law and human rights will get in the way of the thugs in uniform doing their bigoted best,after all the people on the receiving end are not uvf...

Yesterday's decision by the British court to s...

2013-05-10T13:47:44.222+01:00

Yesterday's decision by the British court to suspend sections 21 and 24 represents a set back for the police who have used this particular piece of legislation to intimidate and harass republicans going about their lawful business.

Once again demonstrating their complete disregard for the legal system, the RUC-PSNI stopped one of the men responsible for bringing the challenge under a different section 43 of the same act. During the exchange a policeman made it clear they would continue to stop the man whatever the decision of the court yesterday.

Tallyhoo!

"The shame that befalls those Palestinians wh...

2013-05-10T11:20:27.946+01:00

"The shame that befalls those Palestinians who abandoned and denied their cause when they found a more profitable one is a double shame and is more shameful than the single shame of the Zionists of the shameful sinful cause."

A Lebanese friend of mine wrote that... Sounds familiar

Exactly Marty and if you think back it wasn't ...

2013-05-10T11:14:53.340+01:00

Exactly Marty and if you think back it wasn't that long ago they decried the position of the SDLP for "turning a blind eye". Hypocrites

Anthony the peace at any price brigade see none of...

2013-05-10T10:54:33.889+01:00

Anthony the peace at any price brigade see none of this,the much quoted Martin Niemoller,s First They Came Poem rings very true here,when these reconstructed ruc men/women are flexing their powers in the middle of Andytown its amazing how those unaffected attention always seem to be fixated in the opposite direction,

I don't usually bother with programmes like &#...

2013-05-10T10:11:55.680+01:00

I don't usually bother with programmes like 'The View' Fenian but for some reason I decided to check it out last night. All I seen were efforts to make the Northern Ireland state appear normal and as though it can actually work - enough to turn the stomach and no republican way to be going about things.

Sinn Fein are well and truly within the British model and John O'Dowd looked more than comfortable in his role as a minister of the British Crown. To see the Sinn Fein and DUP representation sitting together told me everything I need to know about what's going on at Stormont, tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, together they are administering the Northern state for Britain and that is all this sham process amounts to. And the worst of it is they are loving it, the suits and ties and prestige of British power. Disgusting. Long gone are the days of Barry McElduff throwing paper aeroplanes out Mary Nelis' window and making a mockery of the place.

The only issues recognised as unresolved were flags, parades and legacy - no mention of Maghaberry, Internment, MI5 or political policing. Despite Gerry Kelly's efforts to paint a hardline image of Sinn Fein's position at the Ard Fheis we can see already it's nothing but crap and that none of this is on Sinn Fein's agenda at all, it's all for the optics.

Tired of arguing the same points but what has to be said has to be said. No-one wants to be just a Sinn Fein basher but what else is there for it if they continue to try and ride two horses at the same time, they deserve to be exposed. You can't administer British rule and work for a republican agenda and that's becoming clearer all the time.

So it's not Sinn Fein I've the problem with per se but their role in administering British rule and the resulting impact this has on their ability to oppose what the British state is up to in this country - they can't go against the boss-man for fear of losing their jobs and this is never how it was meant to be. They've grown comfortable and the fact that they are comfortable within an internal British framework no longer matters to them.

Truly pathetic and O'Dowd's performance last night - in tandem with Jonathan Bell into-the-bargain - just demonstrates what I'm trying to out across here

Agreed mackers, but lets be honest the garda can b...

2013-05-10T01:39:08.796+01:00

Agreed mackers, but lets be honest the garda can be a nasty bunch too. ostensibly you make them seem like the "good" cops

ACAB! ;)

Sean, they are all humble servants of the crown..a...

2013-05-09T23:35:09.494+01:00

Sean, they are all humble servants of the crown..administrating British rule on behalf of HRM..

John O'Dowd just sat and called David Forde, C...

2013-05-09T22:54:27.947+01:00

John O'Dowd just sat and called David Forde, Conal McDevitt and Danny Kennedy "his colleagues" on 'The View'. Tells you everything you need to know - colleagues in administering British rule and proud of it, shows the road that's been travelled. This is all about normalisation, a united Ireland gets lipservice and that's as far as it goes

Power without principle is the operative phrase wh...

2013-05-09T21:58:33.793+01:00

Power without principle is the operative phrase when it comes to the position of Sinn Fein. I feel they took the policing decision for all the wrong reasons, they were playing political catchup because of self-inflicted problems to do with the murder of Robert McCartney and its association with the republican movement. Rather than accepting PSNI because it was genuinely the right thing to do they done so out of self-interest, to get themselves back on track in terms of the peace process and the high office they've attained as a result of it. This sadly is how they work, it was the same with decommissioning and it was the same with McGuinness meeting the Queen, all for nefarious purposes and neither to do with principle. The truth is that Sinn Fein leadership simply has no principles left, they've been sold off one by one as the price of continued political power. Quite disgraceful really when you think of where they came from