Well then, I have of course been following the BBC’s coverage of the arrest and subsequent release of Gerry Adams. What struck me was the almost palpable euphoria expressed by SOME BBC correspondents when Grisly was released last evening.
The Today programme this morning summed it all up when, during an interview with one of Jean McConville’s children, the interview seemed struck dumb when he said he did not trust Gerry Adams. Further, he added that in 2005/2006 Adams had brokered meetings between him and IRA men. The interview interrupted to suggest they HAD BEEN in the IRA but obviously they were no longer. Mr McConville explained they were in IRA in the present tense.
The BBC has long sanitised the likes of Adams and McGuinness and the very idea that Gerry the Peacemaker is actually a terrorist godfather whose IRA are dripping in the blood of innocents such as Jean McConville, who it kidnapped, tortured and murdered in cold blood.
Why does it not ask Adams how can it be that if he was not in the IRA, others who were said he was their leader? Why does not it not ask Martin McGuinness, who by his own admission WAS an IRA commander, what exactly did he command be done? Why does the BBC give every impression of being pro-Sinn Fein???
‘Radical chic’ I think is one phrase that would sum up the BBC’s obscene pretensions.
And all this from the same organisation that breathlessly covers any member of UKIP making non-PC comments. If these people spent as much time poring over McGuiness’s CV as they do over facebook entries, they might actually be a serious news organisation.
An inconceivable thought for BBC-NUJ:-
‘Telegraph’ (£)-
“Gerry Adams should not be immune from justice.
Northern Ireland has for too long brushed the past under the carpet for the sake of peace.”
By Ruth Dudley Edwards.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/10808117/Gerry-Adams-should-not-be-immune-from-justice.html
If an organisation is anti-British/English/establishment/Tory then the BBC will side with the persecuted minority comrades, just like they have with the SNP (Scottish Nose Pickers). What disgusts me is the fact that the Lefty, sandal-wearing, west-end coffee-house frequenting BBC types can treat these terrorist scum as if they were statesmen and politicians when really they are a bunch of murdering filth who used Marxism as an excuse for their butchery. The bBC are an utter disgrace and should be privatised.
Now, David, I may be wrong as I am an Englishman who is perhaps ignorant of issues in northern Ireland, but as far as I know the majority of folk in the North WANT to remain as part of Britain but the IRA will not accept this. And because the IRA had backers in America we’ve been bullied into accepting these scum when in reality they should have been wiped off the face of the planet.
Surprise, surprise, DV thinks the coverage has been biased in favour of Sinn Fein, well there’s a shock.
It was of course a BBC programme that brought these accusations about Adams to the fore again. Nevermind that.
It seems a little odd to me that you call for medals for the British soldier who murders an unarmed, and mortally wounded enemy and covers it up, yet then rail against another type of murder. Is it just catholic/republican murder you have something against?
Maybe its just bitterness that the electorate prefers them by a ratio of 1000-1? Or that they have actually contributed something to peace in NI, whereas you just want to take us back.
Bollox!
It was RTE last October/November that blew the whistle on Saddams….but there was no mention of it over here!
Listen to Peter Taylor of the BBC-total IRA pawn, albeit wriggling on the barbed wire fence in being so.
You neeed to know that Adams cares only about the Irish elections, not the European ones-he wants a united Ireland remember, so it`s the Irish election collateral damage he cares about.
He knows the British elite are in his kitbag nowadays!
In all the BBC archive footage of St Gerald, I can`t help but notice a couple of(admittedly-understandable) breaches of Health and Safety Regulations.
It was a different time, I grant you…but rules is rules, and I am passionate about compliance with current best practice…and I cite DeMenezes v The Met in my defence.
1. It`s ll well and good firing rifles over your comrades…but I note no ear defenders whatsoever in all film of Gerry by the graveside…nor indeed his fellow co-workers for that matter.
Need I add the lack of gun licenses, Hi viz and suitable training in coffin carrying?
2. Mr Adams himself chose to wear berets and sunglasses on days where they would not have been needed. For Milltown Cemetery is not Cuba or San Sebastian…the weather was clearly cloudy and surely visual impairment was self-induced.
I shall leave the case of lack of suitable sunscreen for those sunny days when such berets and glasses would have been appropriate to Justice Hain to decide upon.
See-there`s always a solution-and we all know how seriously the BBC take violations of health and safety EU laws…so Gerry may yet find himself swapping pogs with the Skullcraker in due course.
Surprise, surprise you turn up like an unwelcome dose of the squirts. Have you skipped arts and craft class to come on here and pull the chain?
Surely they could have kept Gerry in for a few more days.
I`ve only told Amnestys Kate Allan to investigate for me, and sent my BBC License money to support the sending of cards and candles to Sir Gerald of Adams.
Did Shami know of this?
Nor did the BBC mention at the time of the Boston bombing, that for years the “good” citizens of Boston collected funds for the IRA to main and blow up innocent British citizens.
The reason no charges are upheld against Adams or McGuiness is that although they are guilty of murder without doubt, witnesses have been told they will be shot dead if they testify, if that does not prove their guilt, i’m a dutchman. Until witnesses are given protection and everything else that is afforded to terrorists, then these guilty sub-humans will never be held to account.
David. You write “the interview (sic) seemed struck dumb when he said he did not trust Gerry Adams”. The interviewer throughout allowed Michael McConville to develop his distressing story in his own time. This was not a typical Today grilling. It seems to me that this is another case of hearing what you want to hear.
Luvaduck they`re STILL going on about Gerry, and whether a few lives unaccounted for is a cheap price for the Peace Process.
It would certainly be OK to save the permatanned skins like Mandelson and Hain, the malodorous fakes like Blair and “our Mo Mowlem”…and the likes of Peter Taylor can go back to sleep.
Charles Moore asks us to note who the BBC chooses to put into the dock by way of their agenda.
Do they put in a sinister accomplice to murders, tortures and disappearing of “class traitors or whistleblowers”…with Armalites, balaclavas and berets?
Or do they put in the kids of a murdered mother/widow of ten…and the police and prosecutors who wonder who gave the signal to kill her and torture her kids?
No contest-of COURSE the BBC will side with the Brit-hating men with that whiff of terror and petrol about them…and , of course, they`ll shaft the dead and the broken if that prevents any embarrassment to Clinton.
That`s our BBC these days….Evil weevils…but at least we know it now.
Now they’re playing the death threat card – Adams as completely clean handed victim
The BBC seems to have quickly and quietly lost interest in investigating the past of McGuiness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27117190
Notice how McGuiness doesn’t even feature in the headline.
I’m sure if similar allegations were made against a Unionist politician the BBC would have shown equally little interest.
To answer David’s end question – Because they are.
The BBC is biased against Gerry Adams and Sinn fein. This ‘mud sticks’ kind of reporting an obvious sign of this.
Would that be the kind of mud that sticks to an executions boots while he drags the lifeless body of his victim through the woods to a nameless grave, is that the type of mud to which you refer?
i am not accusing gerry adams of anything,the man is legally innocent in the eyes of the law,but,and i mean a real big but,i think gerry adams will go to his grave with whatever or not so whatever he knows about the torture and murder of mrs mcconville,that is the reality of this situation,now here is a thing that nobody has mentioned in the media,do you think that in the next few weeks martin mcguiness might be getting a 6.am knock on the door from the psni for a bit of a griiling about his past links to the ira,i wonder,i just wonder.