The sanitisation of IRA to be speeded up to give cover to DUP surrender of Judicial powers to McGuinness - Allister
06 August 2008
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister MEP:
"The hasty arrangement for the IMC to report on the IRA Army Council is patently a choreographed move to ease the implementation of the DUP's deal with IRA/Sinn Fein over policing and justice.
Given the IMC's compliant whitewash of the Paul Quinn murder I have no confidence that an answer other than suits the Governments will be produced and that in contrast to its one time healthy scepticism of convenient IMC findings, the DUP will play the game and seek refuge in this further process of sanitisation of the wicked IRA.
Whatever the IMC agrees to say, no IRA accolyte, such as McGuinness, should ever be allowed to exercise justice powers and, yet, this is precisely what the DUP is preparing to do since OFMDFM control over the Judiciary is the most important dimension of devolved policing and justice."
