N. Ireland Protestants don't want peace
What else could explain this?BELFAST (Reuters) - Protestant leader Ian Paisley on Tuesday accused the IRA of a cover-up after monitors said it had scrapped its entire arsenal used to wage war on British rule in Northern Ireland.
The international monitors said on Monday they had seen put beyond use all of the IRA's weapons, including rifles, flame throwers, explosives, machine guns and surface-to-air missiles.
"The more the search-light is put on this, the more we discover there is a cover-up," said Paisley, a firebrand cleric and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the province's biggest party.
Paisley is incapable of bargaining in good faith. All parties to the peace process should henceforth marginalize Paisley and the DUP. They have repeatedly torpedoed the process.
posted by the spook @ 4:06 PM
4 Comments:
At 1:45 PM,
Anonymous said…
I don't like the way the word 'Protestants' is used as it impllies that this is a religious issue. It is not. It's a political issue.
Paisley does not speak for all unionists and certainly not for all protestants, he speaks for a disillusioned and untrusting aspect of unionism which is understandably wary of IRA moves.
I do agree that he needs to accept the principle of sharing power with nationalists.
You will find good commentary on events in Ireland at United Irelander.
At 12:38 PM,
the spook said…
You are correct. But as the article says, the DUP is the largest political party in Ulster.
At 1:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
'Ulster' is actually a nine county province. 'Northern Ireland' is six counties.
Calling the 6 counties Ulster is quite offensive to Irish people, especially those in the south seeing as three Ulster counties make up the Republic of Ireland.
At 10:59 AM,
the spook said…
Sorry. I should probably limit my commentary on things I know little about, and this is something I knew a little about 30 years ago. As for the hed, I was being melodramatic.
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