tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6407906863826403613..comments2009-06-17T20:06:59.067+01:00AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-23323253927786881642009-06-17T20:06:59.067+01:002009-06-17T20:06:59.067+01:00Mick, I don&#39;t know if it is a direct reference to the article when you say it would be a mistake to blame Morrison alone. I have not blamed Morrison at all. I thought it was clearly laid out what was meant by the &#39;Morrison perspective.&#39; I think time will show the nature of the relationship between the council and the committee. You need to bear in mind that the Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of the time are said to have been on the committee. That was a lot of power concentrated in the committee.AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24165904900499071832009-06-17T10:58:33.897+01:002009-06-17T10:58:33.897+01:00I think it is fair comment you make. The Adams leadership had/has become so used to calling people to attention to get their own way it has become second nature to them.<br /><br />It is as if the only way people within the Provisional Republican movement can publicly disagree with the leadership, is if they make a clean break and walk away, as we have seen down the years.<br /><br /> It seems if they wish to remain in the &#39;family&#39; (I wonder who decided to call this movement a family with all the awful connotations this involves) and they make even the slightest criticism and refuse to walk out, all hell will break out around them and to be readmitted to the fold they must do a squinter.<br /><br />I feel it is a mistake to place the responsibility for what has occurred on Morrison alone, for if there is blame to apportion or responsibility to take it must lay with the Army Council of the day. If Morrison was a member of the A/C back then he will have to shoulder his share of the blame for this fiasco.<br /><br />If as some of the former A/C members now claim, they delegated to a sub committee led by Adams all responsibility for the daily running of the hunger strike, that is not good enough and no excuse at all, as overall responsibility must still have laid with the A/C to whom Adams must have reported back.<br /><br /> The latter decision to attack O&#39;Rawe over his claims in the book must also have been discussed at A/C level, and if not, there is surly a lesson for republicans here. ie is the over centralized methodology used by Republicans out lasted its usefulness.Mick Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627288401631451362noreply@blogger.com