{"id":2863,"date":"2014-11-14T08:23:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T08:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T08:23:57","slug":"a-very-irish-hypocrisy-ceartas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longkeshinsideout.co.uk\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"A Very Irish Hypocrisy: Ceartas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Very Irish Hypocrisy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What do people believe? I have been following the Maria Cahill story like so many other people but I have been more fascinated by the people who support and vote Sinn Fein.\u00a0 As an old loyalist I can understand (but oppose) the IRA stance of fighting to get the \u2018Brits\u2019 (that includes me and my family) out of N.Ireland. I have studied how historically violence has been used to achieve political aims. It produced the Irish Republic, the State of Israel. It drove the French out of Algeria and defeated the Argies on the Falklands.\u00a0 Violence drove the British out of America.\u00a0 Violence took the land from the Native American Indians. \u00a0And as an ex prisoner, \u00a0I understand the Republican \u2018hunger strikes\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0 It was an amazing testament to the belief and ideals of those Republican prisoners.\u00a0 There was principle and sacrifice. Even if they were on the opposite side to me.
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But more importantly I understand the need and principles for defending woman and children from sexual predators.\u00a0 Forget for a moment politics and dogmas and culture. Before I explain my puzzlement, I clearly note that there are predators everywhere. In \u2018Prod\u2019 districts, in the middle classes, in ethnic minority groups, in the security forces, etc.\u00a0 Even famous T.V. celebrities from the \u201870s. Prods have only to look at the examples of Margaret Wright (1994) and Ann Ogilby (1974) and know that not all the monsters are in Republican districts.\u00a0 But during the madness of the \u201870s Catholic\/nationalist victims of sexual assault could not go to the RUC because of the prevailing feelings and attitudes within their community. A young woman or child from say \u2018Andytown\u2019 would be in the horrible position of not being allowed to go to the police and perhaps the police would not exactly be overzealous in wishing to help them. It fell upon the Republicans, \u2018the Provos\u2019, to do something. I am sure they took some men out and beat them, kneecapped or whatever.\u00a0 But where it all falls down is when the Provos protect themselves and leave their victims without any meaningful recourse. Totally defenceless. Is it not somewhat ironic, \u00a0that after the all the years that Sinn Fein have criticising \u00a0the RUC and Army about protecting themselves, withholding information, \u00a0dragging feet, \u00a0being obstructive, twisting the truth, etc., that they themselves have been doing exactly the same thing.\u00a0 A very Irish hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

But what of the electorate, the ordinary Nationalist person in the Republican stronghold? Or the Irish Republic? The ability to turn a blind eye, to turn logic on its head?\u00a0 Do Sinn Fein voters say; my political loyalty overrides disgraceful actions against my own people? \u00a0I can live with that? Ask yourself if you recall in the \u201870s or \u201880s a newspaper headline; \u00a0\u2018Provos claim they have buried a tout?\u00a0 They didn\u2019t \u2018fess\u2019 up until they were pushed. Their leader still denies that he was a member of the Provos which still beggars\u2019 belief. Maybe his jaunt over to Downing Street in 1973 was an administrative error? It\u2019s still an insult to all who know the truth. Maybe Gusty wasn\u2019t really in the UVF?<\/p>\n

Do people know how many punishment shootings the Provos carried out on their own members for alleged sexual offences? Let\u2019s face it, a person is shot in both knees, the police ask; what was this is for? Can you imagine someone saying; \u2018I raped that woman\u2019? I suspect the standard answer is; I don\u2019t know why. And would the police chase down this kneecapping; one of thousands? \u00a0Unlikely.<\/p>\n

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So, as I see it, thousands of Nationalists will put their vote to Sinn Fein when the opportunity arises and turn a blind eye to all this \u201cpropaganda\u201d. But what does it mean for other non-Sinn Fein Nationalists and Protestants? I have met many Nationalists and Republican ex-prisoners. They are as decent and straight a people as you could meet. Same with Loyalists, Security Forces, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Good and bad everywhere.\u00a0 But if Sinn Fein got into power in the Republic then that <\/span>population can expect this type of behaviour to continue. Shinners always right; everyone else wrong.<\/p>\n

The right to criticise them will be severely curtailed if not extinguished. For Loyalist and Protestants in the north the idea of Sinn Fein in power in a United Ireland is truly frightening. \u00a0\u00a0If they can excuse some of their own brutalising of their own community in a sexual way then what can the rest of us expect? \u00a0Anything British will be slowly expunged. People will be forced to leave the country. Killings would start again (Look to the precedents in history). Any wrong \u00a0that Sinn Fein would do could be explained or lied away. \u2018It\u2019s the Brits fault\u2019. \u00a0This monster in power would assume totalitarian and dictatorial proportions. Any criticism from non-Sinn Fein Nationalist or British would be snuffed out.\u00a0\u00a0 If Sinn Fein can\u2019t be honest to nationalist victims about its own predator members how would it be honest and fair to anyone who wasn\u2019t of their way of thinking?<\/p>\n

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The last point about the electoral blindness concerns Germany in 1930.\u00a0 The Federal election saw the rise of Hitler\u2019s party to second place in the Reichstag. There was much wrong about that land in those days and the woes are well recorded elsewhere.\u00a0 But on the back of rhetoric, on the back of fears about Communism, on the back of the promise to give jobs to all, the people started voting in mass for this party with disastrous consequences. \u00a0But even at that time the electorate had been ignoring uncomfortable truths. \u00a0Turning a blind eye didn\u2019t help anyone and created a monster that took the world to the brink of hell. Could the blind-eye electorate do the same for the people of Ireland?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIf you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0through it will blow up everything in its way.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Emile Zola. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ceartas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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