Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Good bye Good Friday Elsewhere in this magazine, John McAnulty argues that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is effectively dead. It's difficult to find fault with this observation. The political arrangement that was the GFA (as distinct from the cease-fires that still appear solid) is currently in Limbo and has little prospect of re-emerging in its intended format. The Agreement, if such it can be called, depended on the mutual acceptance of; full recognition of the 6-Co state by Sinn Fein and the SDLP in return for unionism agreeing to full nationalist participation in the administration of the region. Eventually, and in spite of very great attempts at appeasement by Sinn Fein, a majority within Unionism has found administration-sharing too much to endure. [Fourthwrite: Good bye Good Friday] Comments: Google It! 1:30:41 PM

Special Court internment Joe Lynch The continued use of the Special Non-Jury Court to imprison people on the word of a senior policeman is an abuse of civil liberties and tantamount to internment, the Limerick Branch of Republican Sinn Féin stated today. [Saoirse: Special Court internment] Comments: Google It! 1:25:02 PM

The PSNI Threat Anthony McIntyre Martin Salter, a British Labour MP, a couple of years past posed the question, what on earth has happened to the early 1970 radicals like myself who have found themselves in Parliament 25 years later. Have we sold out - or simply grown up? An interesting question, and one that should be considered by any 1970s radical considering embracing all the things their radicalism once pitted them against. But the force of the question was blunted by the answer it only half sought to disguise. Suggesting a maturation attained by simply growing up is yet another self-justificatory discourse aimed at alienating alternative voices by ascribing to them the characteristics of infantilism. Obliterate one's own egregious metamorphosis, not by explanation, but by silencing those who would flag it up. And when backs are against the wall what more useful a weapon to impose silence than the police? [The Blanket: The PSNI Threat] Comments: Google It! 1:22:16 PM

The Lollipop Man Danny Morrison One Sunday during the recent election SDLP leader Mark Durkan went for a photo-shoot on the bridge between Strabane and Lifford. On another occasion he stopped traffic on a main road to be photographed as a lollipop man carrying a pole bearing the circular sign, Stop The DUP. [dannymorrison.com: The Lollipop Man] Comments: Google It! 1:14:48 PM

True Believers Part 6 Web Mayfield So what ever happened to the Official IRA? By 1972 or so they had been eclipsed as the main IRA by the Provos. Their leadership was increasingly interested in the political approach to Ireland's problems and viewed the armed wing of the movement as an anchor that was weighing them down. Finally in 1972 they declared a ceasefire that has more or less held to this day. In 1974 some of the ones that didn't want to end the armed struggle split off to form the INLA, and a feud ensued for several months between the remains of the Official IRA and the INLA. Then all was quiet again until Seamus Costello, the leader of the INLA and it's political wing, the IRSP. was shot to death in Dublin in 1977, a killing that has been generally attributed to the Official IRA. After that the Officials faded from view. [Proceedings of the Radial Symmetry Institute: True Believers Part 6] Comments: Google It! 1:09:18 PM

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