Terrorism - not The Union - caused sectarianism and violence
06 August 2010
Responding to Sinn Fein/IRA leader Gerry Adams’s article in today’s News Letter TUV leader Jim Allister said:
“Gerry Adams’s condescending lecture will cut no ice with Unionists. Indeed rather than being won over by his facile arguments on Irish unity they will be deeply offended. His claim that it was the Union which caused “decades of division, sectarianism and violence” is particularly obnoxious.
“It was terrorists who engaged in violence and Adams’s own IRA frequently had no other excuse for its actions than naked sectarianism. What of Kingsmill - one of dozens of examples which could be cited?
“To listen to lectures on an Ireland characterized by “full civil and religious liberties” from such an individual is truly nauseating.
“The most telling feature of Adams’s article is that the Republican movement’s involvement in creating and perpetuating thirty years of bloody terrorism is ignored. There is certainly no hint of an apology or even regret for what took place.
“It is evident that Republicanism has not changed and remains unrepentant about its involvement in bloodshed. That being so they remain unfit for government and their lectures on the merits of a united Ireland will certainly go unheeded by Unionists.”
