I
do not understand why these gossip attacks against
the McCartney sisters are even taking place.
To
allow sadistic killers to use their trusted position
within the republican movement to protect themselves
against a vicious crime against their own community,
for a despicable and heinous butchering of a non-combatant
fellow Irishman, a community neighbor, has nothing
to do with Ireland's 800 year quest to expel a hostile
foreign government from its illegal occupation of
Ireland; it has nothing to do with Republicanism;
it has nothing to do with the totally disgraced
crawling-on-their-belly, once-upon-a-time Irish
Army.
To
allow this pretense to be a subject of logical discourse
is to lose site of reality, and to join in with
the hysteria of the politicians and the press. There
is nothing any more respectable about these thugs
and butchers than there was about the Orange Order
Death Gang who nailed that fellow to a fence a couple
of years ago. When these barbarians go to jail,
they should not be allowed on the same floor with
decent individual who are in jail for only one reason:
Britain’s point-of-a-gun occupation of the
Six Counties of Ulster. If Britain were not occupying
the Six Counties of Ulster at the point of a bayonet
and air-to-ground missiles, these men would not
be in jail; they would be home with their families;
just like the fellows of 1916.
To
compare the McCartney butchers to any one of over
100 Republican prisoners is a slap in the face to
the prisoners, to their families, and a slap in
the face of those heroes of 1916. To allow a morally
deficient local street gang to tarnish the just
cause of the Native Irish in their demand for national
sovereignty over an evil, corrupt, and criminal
foreign government is to rob the Irish of their
right to their own destiny. All nations have that
right, but only a small minority is demanding it
for Ireland. Do not allow immoral, empty criminals
to derail a just and historic cause.
To
take a single snip at the McCartney sisters for
their efforts to bring a lawful closure to the circumstances
of a lawless society is a disgrace. Their brother
was butchered: he and they are the victims. They
have every right to take whatever actions they deem
necessary, even if they had accepted the gang’s
offer to kill one of their own thugs; which the
sisters did not, to their own credit. They do not
have to justify themselves when they were the only
ones who spoke out against this injustice.
