McGuinness comments show true nature of Republicanism
26 May 2009
Statement by sitting TUV MEP Jim Allister:
“McGuinness’s comments at an event to commemorate the Hunger Strikers are a telling reminder of the just what the DUP embraced to their bosom when they went into government with Sinn Fein/IRA.
“McGuinness displayed the pride in the role his party colleagues have played in the murderous IRA. The Joint First Minister boats not the democratic credentials of his party but, instead, recalls the part that they played in bringing murder and mayhem to the streets of Northern Ireland.
“In what other part of the world would the co-leader of government boast about his party’s role in a gang of genocide murderers?
“When McGuinness observes that when we see the Assembly on TV should “always remember” that standing alongside Adams or himself are “the women and the men who stood at the front of the struggle when there was no alternative option but war” it is evident that he does not accept that the IRA were engaged in criminality. He still believes it was perfectly acceptable to murder off duty police officers and ordinary Protestants in order to further the Republican objective of a United Ireland.
“And make no mistake about it. McGuinness sees Stormont and the Belfast Agreement’s all-Ireland institutions as simply a “new phase” in Republicans’ age old struggle.
“As I have traveled around this Province I have been greatly encouraged by the number of ordinary Unionists who share my disgust at McGuinness and Kelly holding office in the government of our Province. Thankfully in just a few days the Unionist electorate will have their opportunity to pass judgment on Sinn Fein/IRA and those who elevated them to the cabinet table.”
