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Rebellion against the forces of good

 

Ian Paisley tells us (16/4/07) that we’ll not be going back to the days of violence. Wouldn’t you rather hear that from Gerry Adams? Gerry Adams assures us regularly that we’ll not be going back to the bad old days of unionist intransigence. Wouldn’t you rather hear that from Ian Paisley?

Notice something? These coalition leaders are blaming each other for the Troubles. Wouldn’t you rather they accepted responsibility for their own roles?

This is a dangerous situation because we have no guarantee that they will not repeat their pasts or that new leaders will feel it rewarding to go down the violence or intransigence route because there appears to be no price to pay for these “scapegoating” leaders.

Ian Paisley is only in power at the moment because he has for many years twisted the truth when he told the unionist electorate that there was a better way than the UUP one.

The truth for Nationalists is more complex. Not only did Gerry Adams lead his people into a depraved slavery to violence, he practically destroyed them before Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Hume of the SDLP, a non-violence leader in the mode of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and indeed Jesus Christ himself, stepped in and saved the Nationalist people from complete demoralization.

The truth about Gerry Adams is that he led a rebellion against the forces of good in our society here in the North, leading Catholics (mainly) away from Christ and towards an alien antichristian agenda. His rebellion failed miserably and for the moment he is being rewarded by the public because of the “prodigal son” syndrome in us that loves to see a sinner convert.

Wouldn’t you rather Paisley and Adams pay a price in order to deter other would-be destroyers from coming forward? Well, that price can only be the acceptance of responsibility for the Troubles.

 

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*John O’Connell is Derry-based author.

 

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