TUV says don’t pander to republican culture of victimhood
18 April 2011
Commenting on press reports that on her visit to Croke Park the Queen might apologise for the so called ‘Bloody Sunday’ event away back in 1920, TUV Leader Jim Allister said she would be ill-advised to start down the one way street of pandering to the insatiable republican culture of victimhood.
“Is this to be a state visit or an attempt to humiliate the British State by having our Queen jump through the hoops of republican mythology? We still wait in vain for an apology from the Dublin Government for its role in arming and establishing the Provisional IRA, which unleashed decades of terror, or for the open house which the Republic offered IRA gunmen for cross-border genocidal attacks, with no extradition for years. Nor has there been an apology for the failure to protect Lord Mountbatten from IRA murder.
“It would therefore be wholly inappropriate for the Queen to be required to lay wreaths at the memorial to terrorists who fought the legitimate Crown forces or in Croke Park. It seems that moving on is only applicable when it facilitates ignoring republican’s terror campaign, but when it comes to their factory of grievances they require to be constantly revisited.”
