Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Robert Frost Harper’s Magazine December 1920
I’m surprised that there is no beauty pageant to mark this important day. Shatner was available,I’m told.
There can be nothing more repellent than the British press in full pursuit of a traitor, Johnny Foreigner or his cohorts.
How would this person, whoever he is , get a fair trial or do such principles not apply, in the same way as they did not apply to many people from Northern Ireland, over forty years?
I must pick up my copy of the Daily Mail tomorrow ,for a succinct summary of his human rights .
Have the British public learned nothing about either human rights or the gutter press?
While the poor people of Northern Ireland worry about their benefits and fret about visiting A&E , out there in the wicked world of slick people, Sharon O’Connor is moving from one highly paid public job, picking up £275 k of public money and then becoming “chair” of a new education body, also funded by you and me.
No doubt she will reflect that her golden handshake would employ ten teachers for a year, as she watches them being made redundant under her watch.
Such is Northern Ireland , where we pay the person in charge of emptying the bins and burying the dead, in each local council area, as much as the Prime Minister.
The masses are happy that this occurs as long as the orange and green are upheld.
As the Great Liberator said, after independence you will still be digging peat.
Enjoy the experience, peasants!
While I have great respect for many of the issues that Nolan raises on his radio programme, the television programme is awful. It is a freak show. I would be unsurprised if he were to produce the Elephant Man.
Stick to being the official opposition along with Jim Allister and the Green.
The newspapers , in May and July 2014, including the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, carried a story that the PM had appointed Sir Kim Darroch to “secure compensation for British victims” of Libyan/PIRA/Sinn Fein terrorism. It was reported that he would negotiate on behalf of the families. I have no doubt that this information came from Number Ten and that it was the same line peddled to the DUP when they had tea with Cameron in the garden. He was looking for their votes of course. The same story was given to my lawyers.
Here is what Sir Kim told me about his role: “This is a broad remit to lead discussions with the Libyans to facilitate progress for all UK victims of Qadhafi sponsored terrorism. It is not a mandate to secure payment of individual compensation claims.’ Cameron told him to “build a dialogue”.
So there you have it, misled again by Cameron, the man who almost daily tells you how tough he is on terrorism. The deaths from semtex occurred twenty five years ago.
This British Government is a laughing stock abroad. It contributes almost nothing to the war on IS. It has left Libya prey to IS, Cameron having got his photo opportunity there. Afghanistan was a military disaster. Despite hectoring NATO allies to spend two percent of GDP on defence, he refuses to implement that spending here.
If any British citizen thinks that the world of terrorism fears us, think again. The Government of Toffs is incompetent.
I trust that the DUP will not promise their support in the event of a hung parliament.
If one Googles “Families acting for innocent relatives”, one is directed to http://www.victims.org.uk
One is then told that “this site belongs to and is the sole property of William Frazer..unless otherwise indicated this website and its contents are the property of William Frazer.”
The queer thing is that on 16th November 2012 the BBC reported that “Willie Frazer steps down from victims’ group FAIR.”
There is another site http://www.fairvictims.co.uk which is hard to find and which looks like the Mary Celeste. It contains little re events ,no details of who runs the organisation and appears frozen in time.
I understood that this organisation had received substantial sums of public money [hundreds of thousands of pounds] to help victims. I am at a loss to know where that money is , or was spent. I wonder is FAIR registered with the Charity Commission?
I’d like to see some accounts and an account of its activities over the last three years. Any offers?
Geraldine Finucane is reported as saying “gunmen were two-a-penny in Northern Ireland. They don’t interest me. I’m interested in the chain of command.’ If she did say that , I agree with her. I, too, on the ninetieth anniversary of my father’s birth, am interested in the chain of command that led to his murder and the murder of my mother.
The chain of command led from the ASU , through Spike Murray, Bobby Storey and Brian Gillen , to Martin McGuinness. At least one of this group and possibly more, were State agents.
The murder of Pat Finucane, whom I knew, is no more replete with State involvement than many murders in Northern Ireland. Paramilitary organisations were so heavily infiltrated by the late 1980s that the State had overall control of who lived and who died.
The line parroted by the police , that “there are no fresh evidential leads” is a barefaced lie in many cases.
What government in the West does not target the leaders of terrorist organisations? Consider the behaviour of the Americans and the Israelis. Does it not strike the ordinary citizen of Northern Ireland that not one senior terrorist leader was prosecuted after the 1970s?
I am sure that there is information, given by State agents, which would lead to the prosecution of many senior paramilitary figures. To blame, for example, the Republic of Ireland for withholding information on Kingsmills is a clever red herring, dangled by the British and swallowed by people like Wiilliam Frazer. The truth is sitting in British files.
It’s time to prise it free and do justice for all those killed by the State.
So far , of course, unlike the Finucane family I have not had the advantage of any inquiry.
Sadly, the level of lazy, inaccurate, journalism in Belfast, and not confined to the Irish News
The new British press watchdog set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal involving newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch has given the management of The Irish News fourteen days to resolve a complaint from myself that the paper breached the Editor’s Code of Practice in its coverage of the subpoena served against the former Loyalist activist Winston ‘Winky’ Rea.
Allison Morris on a happier day. She may not win an award for her ‘Winky’ Rea coverage however
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) has written to The Irish News informing the newspaper that if it fails to resolve the matter to my satisfaction the IPSO can then formally consider the complaint. The IPSO can then choose to impose sanctions against TheIrish News, if necessary.
The complaint arose out of a front page story written by Allison Morris claiming that ‘Winky’ Rea had told interviewers from the…
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This is the title of a book by Peter Pomerantsev. He paints a picture of a counterfeit democracy ruled by television, where all trappings of freedom are present, elections, an opposition, a functioning judiciary and a free media but little reality. It is “a strange and effective confection of propaganda, disinformation and entertainment.”
He is describing Russia, I don’t think he has been to “our wee country”. Would he notice much difference? At least Russia has an opposition.
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