Blurred Keys

As
suggested by ex-(London) Times man Simon Jenkins in the Guardian on Friday, and ‘Drapier’ in the
Irish Times on Saturday, if the Gerry, Bertie, Blair, and Co, see it as ‘ok’ to
give an pardon to the IRA’s “on the runs”, and of course ‘otrs’ from other
terrorist groups, they must see that this pardon should apply to the people
involved with Bloody Sunday and the Dublin-Monaghan bombing. Right?

With Bloody
Sunday and the Dublin-Monaghan bombing, the possible thought of justice never
been done, or at least the truth never been made a fact by a court or tribunal,
is something most in Mr Adams’ camp could never stomach, but their style of
bloody-handed Irish Republicanism is all but blind to the exact same thought by
their Comrades’ victims, or their families and friends.

Excues me
for this - The planed pardons for on the runs will most like not be ‘water
under the bridge’, but ‘skeletons in the closet’.

On a personal note, my above attitude towards
the Provos may surprise some people that think they know my views. Just to make
it clear for the record, I don’t think it’s alright for anyone to kill another
person, unless it real is in defence (in Nally’s case it wasn’t, but that’s
another story). Some people, mostly in the anti-SF (note anti-SF, not the
anti-IRA, or anti the whole prove ‘movement’), don’t like when I draw parallels
to armies and terrorists indiscriminately killing people, some think one is
‘collateral damage’, they think drawing parallels is to decriminalise one, it’s
not, it’s to drag both into the gutter where they belong. ‘Collateral damage’,
in any kind of civil sense, was only reality before the term came in to being,
and at least pre-WWII when it became ok to indiscriminately bomb whole towns
and cities – and the current Iraq war proves it still is ok to kill lik this.
States and their armies should hold them selves to higher standards to the
terrorists who are scum. A state has no right to indiscriminately kill, no one
has – so all indiscriminate killing are just as wrong as each other, no matter
what the ‘cause’. Back to the centre point of this long ending note – me… my
political leanings if translated into any Irish political party would end up
closest to the Greens, not the party who are green in another way. This
shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who know I morally offset my five or six
flights in the last year to the fact I don’t own a car and now cycle to work
(not that I would’nt buy a car if I actually needed one), or that I have a
slightly worrying interest in public transport, planning, waste, energy etc.
But, I’ve no plans for joinging any party at the moment. Anyway, I love how the personal note turns out longer then the main point of
this post!