The Trouble with Stormont

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I picked this up from the Irish Independent website by the (near legendary)
Irish Republican hating 'Cruiser' - what was interesting is how he is
ascribing the whole thing in Stormont as CIA instigated (I'm not sure if
this is right - if so, we have the CIA and British securocrats trying to
take the Peace Process down). Interestingly also, the US Special Advisor on
Ireland Right-wing Richard Haas has just today been very vocal in his
demands for IRA disbandment:
full:
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=844018&issue_id
=8172

Adams has no answers to questions

Conor Cruise O'Brien was reluctantly impressed by Adams's cool effrontery

JUST a week ago, I was watching John Bowman's television show, on which
Gerry Adams turned out to be the star performer, this being just after the
police raids on Sinn Fein premises and the discovery of documents which the
Northern Ireland police claimed to be evidence of a successful conspiracy to
steal confidential documents, including correspondence between the British
Prime Minister and the President of the United States.

In its own ghastly way, Gerry Adams's broadcast performance was quite
impressive. John Bowman pressed him quite hard, particularly on the
continued retention of IRA weapons, but Adams responded with cool
effrontery. He brushed aside the awkward questions and developed the theme
of how awful it was for the Northern Ireland police to search the premises
of a legitimate political party. Such a thing, he thought, could not happen
in any other democratic country.

He didn't deign to consider the question of whether there is any other
democratic country in which a political party is the front for a private
army.

...snip...

IF these islands were left to themselves, I believe that Sinn Fein-IRA would
continue to flourish, while the IRA retained all the weapons they want to
retain, with the permanent and rewarding threat these pose. Both the British
and Irish governments are prepared to go along with that, though with some
differences of emphasis.

But the two governments are not about to be left to themselves. The shadow
of the United States is already falling over the political landscape of
these islands and is about to grow deeper.

The IRA's military involvement with a private army FARC which is hostile to
the United States was a huge mistake for which Sinn Fein has already paid a
high price, and which may yet cost Sinn Fein-IRA its very existence.

Already the so-called "Friends of Ireland" in America, once outstandingly
supportive of anything Sinn Fein-IRA said and did, have virtually ceased to
exist. The days when Gerry Adams was a welcome guest in the White House are
over for good.

After the convictions of the Colombia Three which I regard as virtually
certain the American pressure on the British and Irish generals to isolate
and then eliminate Sinn Fein-IRA will increase to the point where it can no
longer be resisted.

But even today there is already a powerful American presence in Northern
Ireland. After the FARC disclosures, it was inevitable that the CIA should
become involved in Northern Ireland and I believe they are there now in
force. The British government would have liked to hush up the disclosures
about the thefts of documents but couldn't because the CIA had got word of
the thefts.

I believe the growing American involvement will have proved fatal to Sinn
Fein-IRA before another year is out.


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