PLACATING TERRORISM...

I wanted to start this week proper by getting "back to basics" with a post on a theme central to both ATW and everything I believe in; namely that it is absolutely wrong on both moral and political grounds to ever appease terrorists and their enablers.

This is a cardinal theme in my writings. Take this story by Northern Ireland's best journalist Suzanne Breen revealing that...

"Recently-defected Provisional IRA members will join forces with Real IRA and Continuity IRA activists at a public meeting on Tuesday in what they believe could lead to a ground-breaking challenge to the peace process.

Real IRA, INLA and Continuity IRA members, who will attend the meeting, said they hoped to develop a way forward and put an end to the marginalisation of dissident republicans. Political activists with no military involvement are also involved in organising the meeting and will be in attendance.

It has been advertised as taking place in Toome, Co Derry, chosen because last month – as reported in the Sunday Tribune – up to 40 members of the South Derry brigade of the Provisional IRA defected amidst disillusionment with the leadership's strategy.

Now then, let me make it clear that the fact these people are "Irish Republicans" means little to me. They could be "dissident loyalists" for all I care. But it is clear that they are a motley crew of both terrorists and terrorist enablers. Therefore the fact that this meeting is ALLOWED to happen is an absolute disgrace. Those attending should be taken into police custody and questioned for ANY information they may have on terrorist crimes. They should be interrogated until the authorities are certain they have no knowledge that could lead to possible convictions of terrorists.

Now that is NOT going to happen. Why? Because the authorities in Northern Ireland have become so profoundly corrupted by the toxicity of maintaining the alleged "peace process" that they view with benigh indifference a public meeting by such a dangerous group of people.

The stupifying folly of trying to appease terrorists is summed up in the words of that great man, Sir Walter Scott (The original "tangled web" guy!) when he noted..

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

Comments

[NRG]

I have thought for a long time that a new IRA campaign will begin in earnest next year, in the tradition of Gerry Adams' Long War it will take a couple of years to crank up.

The "Provisional" movement meanwhile will make occasional Tut Tut noises and issue weasel worlds of condemnation (while crossing their fingers) and demand to keep their political gains.

[Patrician]

It is obvious that the forces of lawlessness and disorder are trying to keep the people down. "Back to war I say"
Tiocfadh ar la.

[Alex]

Apparently this "meeting" has now been cancelled/postponed.

[daytripper]

what pisses me off is that paisley et al will be happier to see violence return to the streets purely so they can say "i told you so". they never wanted to govern along side any type of nationalist, so failures in the peace process are as much theirs as anyone elses.

had to be said.

[Armaghlite]

These people are idiots - pure and simple. I'd bet that they are small in number and are generally unhappy people - unhappy at all the progress that has been made. They should be left for the British and indeed Irish security forces to deal with.

If they actually do begin any kind of campaign it will have no support. People have become used to peace and are not willing to go backwards.

[Colm]

Surely any group of people preparing to launch a terrorist campaign would hardly do so by way of a public meeting ?

[NRG]

Colm, I wish it were so. The assorted nuts, fruits, extortionists, psychopaths and drug dealers that passes itself off as UDA seem to be able to book public halls for public meetings unhindered.

Meanwhile Provos are openly running a perversion of justice in their ghettos under the Restorative Justice banner (Cunningham - don’t moan at me for stating this uncomfortable truth – SDLP are main opposition to SF / IRA run "justice" programmes)

David is right about the peace process being an excuse to allow all sorts of mad stuff to be allowed.

[the submariner]

I believe in; namely that it is absolutely wrong on both moral and political grounds to ever appease terrorists and their enablers.

Unless they happen to be the Stern gang or Mr Sharon or Mr Shamiror Mr Begin.eh Dave.

[aileen]

"what pisses me off is that paisley et al will be happier to see violence return to the streets purely so they can say "i told you so". they never wanted to govern along side any type of nationalist, so failures in the peace process are as much theirs as anyone elses.

had to be said"

Paisley et al would love to go into goivernment with the SDLP. Failures in the "Peace Process" re due to it being an appeasment process and that doesn't lie at the door of the Paisleyites.

[Cunningham]

>>Paisley et al would love to go into goivernment with the SDLP<<

Aileen, why then did he personally oppose every attempt to form a Unionist-SDLP government when that option was still available?

[aileen]

Cunningham

I don't know I'm not him. I suspect that a big part of the reason is that forced coalitions are profoundly undemocratic.

Whatever the reasons in the past, the current DUP people that I have spoken too would be happy enough to.