DUP has lost its moral compass: MEP
26 January 2008
Speaking to the Ballymena branch of Traditional Unionist Voice on 26 January, Jim Allister MEP reflected on the imminent third anniversary of the murder of Robert McCartney and what current political attitudes to it tell us of the laissez faire attitude to murder and criminality.
In the course of his remarks Jim Allister said:-
"Three years ago the murder of Robert McCartney was an embarrassment to Sinn Fein, now, alas, it is an embarrassment to the DUP. Three years ago the DUP rightly demanded full delivery up by Sinn Fein of the murderers, now though Sinn Fein has done nothing to help, the DUP no longer seems to care about justice for this innocent man. It is secondary to maintaining the Chuckle Coalition in office. In those 3 years Sinn Fein, despite a phoney pledge to the 'rule of law', hasn't changed; their priority in the McCartney case is still protecting their own, and the DUP's is protecting the coalition.
When you sup with the devil you soon come to terms with his ways.
We are seeing the same with the IRA murder of Paul Quinn, an even more premeditated crime, carried out by Sinn Fein's still existing military wing. Again both Sinn Fein and the DUP are furiously sweeping it under the carpet. Why? because the fact that the IRA murdered Quinn is an inconvenient truth which will not be faced. With weasel words that would do Sinn Fein themselves proud, we've had talk about "organisational acts", "corporate planning", and "unsanctioned actions" by individual IRA members.
If a gang of 15 IRA men beat a man to death, then it is an IRA murder. No ifs and no buts. The military wing of the DUP's partner in government, Sinn Fein, murdered this young man and yet, the First Minister chuckles his way through each day with McGuinness as if nothing had happened. What has really happened alas is that the DUP has lost its moral compass. That which is morally wrong is for them now politically right!"
