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Now
I am a granny and I live on the Falls and I too read
Tom Luby's article.
I thought it was the best analysis I had read in a
very long time. Firstly, Enoch Powell did not say
anything about Gerry Adams in Tom's article, what
Powell said was 'that all political careers end in
failure'. Tom then goes on to point to politicians
once at the pinnacle of their political careers, who
are now consigned to the historical dust bin. Tom
did leave out Gorbachev who in my view is the forerunner
of Gerry Adam's. The Gorbachev syndrome - being loved
abroad but not at home - will be the downfall of Adams
also.
There is no vendetta in this magazine against Adams
for as I see it, Adams' actions speak for themselves.
In an interview with Fortnight magazine Adams
states that it has been eight or nine years since
he has spent a St. Patricks day on the Falls. Where
was he? In New York, most likely at the Waldorf Astoria.
During
the first week of the election campaign where is Adams,
in New Orleans. Since March, according to public records
in America Adams has raised seven hundred thousand
dollars for the coffers of Sinn Fein. Yesterday I
was not at home but I heard that Alex Attwood and
Joe Hendron had been around the doors canvassing.
I have no love for Attwood whom I think is a weasel
but Joe Hendron I have great respect for. He was my
doctor until he semi-retired some years ago. I would
never vote for constitutional nationalism, but at
least the SDLP came to the door. Sinn Fein have been
here twice. On both occasions young people aged between
19 - 22 called, knew who lived here and asked ' 'will
ye give us yer votes'. Where is Adams? I have not
seen him about. Where is Fra McCann? Just back from
his cruise for his fiftieth birthday. Happy birthday,
Fra, haven't seen you out canvassing of late! This
is just typical of the contempt held by Sinn Fein
for their own people, relying on old loyalty that
is definitely on the wane.
Now
as for Adams, is he a money grabber. Well he came
from the back streets of Ballymurphy to now reside
in Norfolk on the Glen Road. At today's market prices
his house in Norfolk would cost at least £105,000
if you are lucky. Small change for Gerry. His house
in Donegal is not a wee place in Donegal, it's of
a fairly grand scale and would cost much more than
his house in Norfolk ever would. There is no doubt
that the fortunes of the Adams family have greatly
improved since Gerry has been broadcasting his Republican
credentials all over America. To me this fella has
been bought.
During this last thirty years while Kathleen Donnelly
(last issue's From A Granny
-ed.) has been in the
States we have all been living here at the coal face
so to speak. Mr. Adams and the provisional republican
movement was waging a war here against Britain. To
make this place ungovernable. Thirty years later,
which translates in to thousands of deaths later,
the provisional republican movement now wants to govern
this place. State republicans are now suing the British
Broadcasting over air time, in order to increase their
chances of getting in to a British assembly to administer
British rule! How's that for a u-turn?
I
was in St. Paul's Church when they had Requiem Mass
for Jean McConville. Who just like Kathleen Donnelly
also lived in the lower Falls some thirty years ago.
I saw her ten adult children still not united even
in their mothers death. A family ravaged by the evils
of this last thirty years that Mr. Adams no doubt
participated in. Kathleen wasn't singing praises for
Gerry then. It says on the front of the Funeral Mass
leaflet:
Born
- 7th May 1934
Taken from us - 7 December 1972
Recovered - 27th August 2003
Laid to Rest - 1 November 2003.
So
next time Kathleen says a wee prayer, when she puts
her head down say one for the McConvilles and the
other victims of a useless war waged not entirely
but at least managed by Messrs Adams and McGuinness.
May I point out to Kathleen that when McGuinness was
second in command it wasn't the Legion Of Mary he
was in.
The
SDLP were at the Mass in force, Mark Durkan, Attwood,
Alban McGuinness, all of them. Not one single member
of Sinn Fein was present even in a private capacity.
I followed the cortege down the Falls Road and for
a minute I thought it was going to stop outside the
Sinn Fein offices. Regretfully it did not but proceeded
on down to Divis Tower. All the families of the disappeared
were there. If anything brings home to you that there
are families out there missing a loved one, it was
the look on all their faces. As McIntyre says, it
is only when you have children yourself that you realise
what these people are missing. Later on, on my way
back up the Falls after the funeral I witnessed Sinn
Fein putting up their election posters almost outside
St Paul's Church were Requiem Mass had been held.
Evidence in my opinion that Jean McConville shamed
them.
Belfast
granny, as opposed to USA granny votes for Tom Luby
- from the Making The Most Sense Party, and for now
it's the Belfast granny's vote that counts!
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