More BBC double standards. They ran an item this morning concerning whether tape recorded confessions of IRA terrorists made at Boston College in the States should be handed over to the Police. There is information in these recordings which allegedly nails Provo boss Gerry Adams so you can imagine the “sensitivity”. The BBC brought on two people to discuss this. One was quangocrat Baroness O’Loan (pro IRA appeasement) and journalist Barney Rowan (pro IRA appeasement). For some reason, they decided NOT to invite someone who was a VICTIM of IRA barbarism. Nicely loaded. All points of view except those who suffered at the hands of the IRA.
THOSE IRA TAPES
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To be fair, they’d probably have had a victim on if they could have foiund one with Tourettes.
The item mentioned specifically that Gerry Adams’ alleged involvement was with the “disappeared” – the many Catholic people who were ruthlessly murdered because they were suspected of being informers. And whose bodies are seldom found. Could the BBC not find anyone to speak up for their families today ?
Nah, they had gone missing…
The panel may have been loaded – that was the point of the post – but I’ve just listened to the clip on the above link and the baroness said that the there was no privilege attached to the interviews, the law applies to one and all and should take its course; the children of a murdered woman have the right to justice and any information about the murder by the IRA of their mother Mrs McConville should be handed over to the police.
It is good to know that the work is going on to get justice for the murdered people. I hope and expect the American court to rule that the information should be disclosed.
Meant to say I noticed the use of the word terrorist in the intro by Humphrys: When former members of the IRA and loyalist terrorist organisations gave frank interviews…
The Beeboids have never hesitated to use the word, except in regard to certain other terrorists who are treated with an unusual degree of careful sensitivity as if they were special, almost saintly people.
“former members of the IRA and loyalist terrorist organisations” means –
former members of the IRA
AND
loyalist terrorist organisations
True to form, the beeb depicts the loyalists as the real terrorists, even though the lion’s share of the atrocities has been the work of the IRA and its splinter groups..
That reading is possible, yes.
However, on your other point, the Beeboid Corporation has over many years used the term Irish terrorists to mean IRA or other republican terrorist groups.
Islam , IRA…all the same to the BBC.
Men with beards, passion and conviction-pliers and Semtex too, so rather scary and so thrilling to the BBC sucker fish that enjoy being cosy with the shark.
That they hate the West, freedom and capitalism helps…and maybe the BBC could be of service come the great day!
Utterly pitiful, spineless and craven…providing succour to terrorists since 1981.
Maybe we can ask for a 30th anniversary “Lie down and roll over for Mecca Day” …but align ourselves in the direction of Buenos Aires come April 2nd.
I almost didn’t listen to this just because of the blurb, “There is no such thing as absolute truth.” Although, while Rowan was clearly pro-amnesty, pro-appeasement, the O’Loan had the decency to point out that the families of victims had a right to want some kind of result.
But the premise of the segment seemed geared from the pro-amnesty viewpoint. Should names be revealed at all, because doing so would mean that the perpetrators might end up getting punished, which isn’t what they did in South Africa, etc. As if amnesty/appeasement is the correct approach simply because South Africa sort of did it. Why not just bring up Rwanda or something and be done with it?
Cue defender of the indefensible cries of “You just want the BBC to tell you what you want to hear”.