So, let’s look at the story first;
The shooting of a 36-year-old man in Newtownabbey on the outskirts of north Belfast has been described as a “ruthless, careless killing”.It is understood the victim was shot six times and died at the scene. At least two men are believed to have been involved in the attack.
Now, who does the BBC go to for a quote? Yes…
Sinn Fein Newtownabbey Councillor Gerry O’Reilly said there was “shock and anger” in the area at the murder. He said there was speculation among residents that dissident republicans were responsible for the attack, which he said happened in the man’s home.
Now, then, would that be the SAME Sinn Fein whose IRA brutally murdered almost 2000 people, maiming thousands more? Asking THEM for a quote on an alleged terrorist murder is akin to asking Ian Brady for a quote on child care provision. Also note how O’Reilly is allowed to speculate on the nature of the killers..”dissident republicans” in this instance. This story is designed to make the IRA seem quite a decent lot, with Sinn Fein the caring face of republicanism. BBC Northern Ireland’s infatuation with Sinn Fein/IRA is repulsive but also significant. It helps sanitise their vile deeds and sustains the illusion that all is well.
They interviewed him because he’s the local councillor.
Vance likes to play the terrorist card to cover up his blatant bigotry. See his many references to Islam. Typical far right demonization.
Are left wing ever bigots? And Islam is as far right as it gets, WTF are you on about?
What about the Rainbow Alliance?
Your enemy is my enemy so you are my friend.
The left is using Islam to help them get their Marxist wolrd government. Same way they are using the LGBT community.
Radical Islam wants to kill all homosexuals. But the left doesn’t care as long as it get them their Marxist world government.
‘Play the terrorist card’?
Is that the same as pointing out that someone belongs to a terrorist organisation?
riiiight, so after crimes the BBC always interviews the local councillor. Right. Always happens.
Its obviously worked on you two. Perhaps you are too young to remember Sinn Fein in its hay day They were quite ruthless at killing anybody also scaring the sh*t out of the population. Not being bigoted does that mean we have to forget. I have the feeling they could revert at the drop of a hat.
…unlike the loyalist paramilitaries, who helped old ladies across the road and drew pretty pictures on the sides of houses. The IRA are a bunch of utter thugs, but SF has the second biggest contingent of elected representatives in the national assembly. Given that BNP is regularly defended on this site on the ground that they have been elected by the people,m we should perhaps apply the same standards to SF.
Treating Sin Fein like the BNP would be a start.
In so far as every mention of the BNP has to be larded with references to the ‘far right; and ‘extremism’, it’s hard not to notice that when the BBC interviews folks who wet dreams about an ethnically-pure Greater Ireland, they treat them as though they were interviewing parish councillors in England.
Which is it? Do fascist nutters deserve the man walking in fron with a red flag treatment, or should they be treated as though blowing up Chrtismas shoppers is just another policy area, like school choice or taxing fizzy drinks?
Treating Sin Fein like the BNP would be a start.
Well said except the SF shouldn’t be treated like the BNP simply because the BNP isn’t associated with – or connected to any group that has perpetrated – the murder and torture of hundreds of innocents.
I think awkwardsod would find very few on this site (Earl’s Court excepted) who routinely defend the BNP. Most of us on here despise them as much as we do any extreme socialist group. And most would agree that the loyalist “paramilitaries” were just as bad as Sinn Fein/IRA.
I also agree that the local councillor, despite belonging to a terrorist party, is the person to interview in this situation. However, I can understand David Vance’s frustration that these are the evil people elected by a significant portion of the electorate, and agree with him about the hypocrisy of an IRA person attacking another one for murder.
As DJ says it is amazing that the BBC treat people from a party whose “paramilitary” branch murdered thousands a lot more fairly than one whose party just spout racist claptrap. They also treat the viloent anti-semitic UAF very sympathetically too.
I don’t despise the BNP, and in my comment above I am defending them. They are a political party with a small but broad-ish voter base: some of their ideas may not be to many people’s liking, hence they don’t get multiple millions of votes BUT they are a legal political entity…and not connected to any multiple murderers either.
If you insist on living in the 80s, or are a member of a splinter unionist group representing a tiny proportion of the population, I can see how this might be a problem. For most of us it isn’t. NI voted for Good Friday. If you don’t like that fact, move elsewhere.
“If you don’t like that fact, move elsewhere.”
Read much Voltaire, have we? Mill? Adams? de Tocqueville?
No. Are you going to be an intellectual snob or actually defend what’s been written? They interviewed the local elected representative who condemned the attacks. If they hadn’t you’d be saying SF had failed to speak out. I have no time for these dinosaurs who’d prefer to live in the bad old days.
Are those the ‘bad old days’ when people used to get shot in the street?
And bombs used to be put under policemen’s cars?
And masses of youths would riot night after night?
Those ‘bad old days’?
That David Vance should find it objectionable that bloodthirsty terrorists are now lauded as pillars of the community is understandable.
But you telling him he should “move elsewhere” because he doesn’t agree with you is in itself reminiscent of the ‘bad old days’ which you claim to decry. People and families were often driven out of areas because they didn’t submit to ‘the tyranny of the majority’ (as some of those writers would phrase it).
I suspect, though, that you are actually too young to remember that, otherwise you wouldn’t come out with such complete and utter bollocks.
So, the cherry vultures are indeed alive and wel after all!
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