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Thread #52146   Message #800273
Posted By: Ireland
10-Oct-02 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
Subject: RE: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
Your at it again Mc G of H, your right on the irresponsibility point, we need SF to stand against the likes of Paisley. Remember when he got heaps of people to go to some hill and wave their shot gun licences at each other, we need saved from him. I thought it was funny!

BTW CB I could not defend the Rev if my life depended on it,he has been the main wooden spoon in N.I. politics for his own benefit.

Trimble has put himself on the line he can only go so far and take so much and it looks as though the SF intelligence gathering has done his position no favours. So if the GFA is as important to SF as they say it is they have to start working with Trimble and other pro GFA unionist. As I have said they have a lot to offer but unfortunately not at the price of security and peace of mind.

Teribus has a valid point we lump loyalist terrorists as one unit, and leave people to pick and choose between republican/nationalist terrorists. No one will ever convince me that there are no common links between the Real IRA and the IRA and all the other spin offs. So when people moan about not mentioning loyalist terrorists they do the same themselves by letting IRA spin offs of the hook.

He also makes the point which many conveniently over look no one in the republic of Ireland want SF with their present ties to the IRA, are they seen as anti GFA, or people who see it as it is.

Some forget an overwhelming number of people or so called unionists voted for the GFA, so for them to want it disbanded is not a lightly taken decision. They have been let down by SF considering they voted to let them into government and noe the anti GFA people can sit back and say I told you so.

Who is responsible for this certainly not the unionists who voted for the GFA nor the anti GFA unionists who if we believe was behind the raid, done nothing more than prove their mistrust in SF was right. And people try to hold them up as the group in the wrong, see it as it is SF caught with their hands in the cookie jar.