Tommy Gorman with a letter to the Irish News. It featured today, 16 May 2014.
Some years ago, I was asked to take part in a
project which, it was hoped, would help enhance understanding of the decades
of political bloodletting that blighted our land and people.
I felt the plan to construct the archive by getting the
thoughts and experiences of former combatants, and to examine the factors
that led to people like us deciding to risk all in pursuance of our
differing causes, would be valuable and instructive to future generations who
may want to know what it was all about and hopefully help ensure it
doesn't happen again.
And with eyes wide open and no hesitation I offered to help
in any way I could.
I did the interviews in which I tried to describe the
feeling of the community and the mood within the republican movement when
the conflict was at different stages as well the prison struggle.
I didn't speak of any other volunteers just as I didn't
expect them to speak of me. They were, after all, personal reminiscences
from a very bloody period in our history.
Unfortunately, those at Boston College have not lived up to
declarations made at the onset of the project in regards to
confidentiality and assurances that the archive would remain secure from any
external snooping.
The resulting media frenzy has allowed Shinner spinners and
semi-literate graffitists to go into overdrive in attacking those of us
among the many interviewees who don’t agree that what is being peddled by
Sinn Fein as ‘the great leap forward’ is anything of the sort.
In socio-economic, constitutional and inter-community
development the opposite is true.
With the recent exposure of post-ceasefire gunrunning by those ‘fully committed to the peace process and support for
the PSNI’ we all should be dubious as to any excuse offered as to why, in
this period of peace, there is a need for guns that are untraceable with no
history or connection to any person or group.
One thing is sure: there is no way they are to be turned on
the old enemy.
In all of our actions we must always strive to comfort the
afflicted and afflict the comfortable by refusing to be silenced.
Early Retirement of head of PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET)
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ReplyDeleteFair play to Tommy. AND the cold hard fact that there are 'clean' guns at hand for one would imagine use against anti-peace (sic) individuals is nothing short of obscene.
ReplyDeleteIs there no way the tapes could be relocated and held until later? Somewhere not in cahoots with the British security services and SF agents?
I'm sure there was smiles wiped from countless faces.
ReplyDeleteHe covered it all. The lies the fabricated and exaggerated response to Adam's arrest and of course exposed the danger behind the importing of guns to say nothing of the ludicrous hypocrisy.
The deputy first minister was spot on when he talked about the dark forces within the psni. Though I would broaden it further, by suggesting that other influensive agencies have a hand in what unfolded over a weeks period.
ReplyDeleteThey tried on two fronts to draw the provos into making all the wrong sounds, by carrying out the arrest of Gerry Adams. In achieving this, they then set about making dubious claims, that Gerry Adams and Bobby Storeys lives were in danger.
Now that they have lit a fire under the provos. They will be sitting back waiting to see if the guns that were imported from Florida, will be used for some "internal house cleaning". After the elections of course.
There are people who are trying to direct the provos into murdering members of the nationalist/republican community. Though they are no strangers to this, as has been proved by scap and many others.
Meanwhile victims families are being strung along by successive governments, who have used every law and court to stop access to the information, that would reveal the truth in many cases of what happened to victims. The reason the government does not want the truth to come out, is that Margret Thatcher and others before her issued royal pardons to many who carried out their dirty deeds.
Many deeds not carried out by the brits, such as that which was to be visited upon Jean McConville and her family. They are solely the dirty deeds of republicans. Equally they need to be "dealt with", the words he used at the balmoral hotel. When he talked about victims in a broader terms,it was, all these issues need resolved. It sounded like Gerrys first public recognition that he, has a role to play in facing his own skeletons.
VICE: The Peace Process Is A Sham: the British Government are trying to access confidential IRA recordings
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