It's About You, Gerry

In an astonishingly vulgar display of anti-morality, the IRA have offered to shoot those that it has identified as being involved in the death of Robert McCartney.   His family, understandibly, to right-thinking people at least, have declined the offer.

Anthony Murnane was interviewing Gerry Adams on RTE 2 last night and made the fatal mistake of mentioning the British governement in the list of critics of the IRA's latest innovation - charity shootings.  It was like watching a juke-box. Anthony put in his 50 cent, Gerry lit up and the well worn Sinn Fein record dropped under the stylus: "Is that that same British Government that [insert preferred repressed nation under British bloodthirsty tyranny cliche here].  Another 45 seconds of bubblegum propaganda.

We're not buying your "damned if we talk to the IRA, damned if we don't" sympathy plea Gerry.   You complain about spin, Gerry; your party's view that this statement is a positive step is positively gyroscopic.   It's time to a call a spade, a spade.  Offering to kill people is just wrong, Gerry.

It's feeble -minded to think we'll believe otherwise. 

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