In a tweet, which she later deleted, regarding victims' pensions, Martina Anderson referred to those who fought Britain's dirty war in Ireland, those involved in collusion and British troops like the Paras who murdered people on Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy.
Lest we also forget, Raymond McCartney was deputy chair & Jennifer McCann sat on the committee which gave screws with 40 years 'service' a payout of £120,000 or more. (Let that sink in ). In doing so he used words like 'rehabilitation' in saying that he thought, "It's accepted that over many, many years customs and practices have led to the 'prison service' not being run in the most efficient way."
McCartney effectively criminalised those Republicans still enduring incarceration in the British penal system.
It's as if, from time to time, that someone in Sinn Féin leaves a gate open and one of their members gets out to run wild before being pulled back in and the gate is closed again.
How can Republicans, or anyone for that matter, trust a party which changes like the Irish weather?
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Did she forget that her party colleague, Declan Kearney apologised to those to whom she referred; the British military forces and the RUC, for the hurt and pain they experienced during the war?
Has it totally slipped her mind that the Colonel-in-Chief of the Paras can't set foot in Ireland these days but members of Sinn Féin are there to meet and greet him?
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It's as if, from time to time, that someone in Sinn Féin leaves a gate open and one of their members gets out to run wild before being pulled back in and the gate is closed again.
How can Republicans, or anyone for that matter, trust a party which changes like the Irish weather?
Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.
Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie
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