Why the Conspiracy of Silence?
17 June 2010
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister
“Why has it been concealed from the
“The fact that it is run by 3 current Sinn Fein members and a convicted IRA murderer - so precious to the Sinn Fein leadership that a special pardon was negotiated for him - makes this not just another criminal enterprise but something inextricably linked to a party of government. Sinn Fein was supposed to have abandoned all criminality and was obligingly given a clean bill of health by the
“Why the media silence on the Co Laois discovery? Why the complicit silence from those that bought the spin about IRA/Sinn Fein’s transformation so that they could get into government with them?
“Anywhere else linkage of a party in government to such criminality would be headline news for days, with multiple enquiries and investigations, and political fall-out, but in Northern Ireland total silence! The reason, sadly, is that ‘protecting the process’ is more important than the uncomfortable truth. Keeping IRA/Sinn Fein in government, no matter what they do, is the mantra. In consequence they have a licence to kill, as in the case of Paul Quinn, and now, it seems, a licence to print money.
“I have already written to the First Minister, the Justice Ministers, north and south, and the Chief Constable, inviting their responses and urging full investigations, but, I fear, collectively they will turn a blind eye.”
For earlier TUV statement see: http://www.jimallister.org/default.asp?blogID=1986
