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While
agreeing with almost everything that you said in your
article " Republicanism: Relevant and Not Going
Away", there was one small paragraph with which
I disagreed, ie:
"I'm
not saying I completely or even mostly agreed with
the IRA's actions...but I don't believe that the
failure of a terrorist-nationalist group discredits
republican guerillaism."
You
mentioned terrorist when referring to the IRA, I for
one, have never believed that to be the case and have
always believed that the real terrorists in Northern
Ireland were in fact the British Occupation Forces.
We only have to look at the murders of Pat Finucane
and Rosemary Nelson amongst hundreds of others to
come to this realisation, but the real acts of terror
committed on the Republican/Nationalist community
were the treatment of the families of the the people
who were unlawfully interned (and I use INTERNED deliberately)
by the Diplock Courts.
I refer to the physical and mental abuse heaped on
the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters (especially
sisters, and you know what I am referring to here)
of Republicans by the British Non-Security Forces
and their sub-human lackies the RUC, sorry, PSNI,
sorry, RUC.
So in closing out I would ask all Republican supporters,
when writing about acts of bravery, not to use the
words terrorism or terrorist, it only gives strength
to the elbow of the people whose mindset we have been
trying to change for so many, many years.
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