Comments on The Pensive Quill: Felon Setting

Marty F, not just yet! On holiday simply. Glad som...

2009-08-06T11:04:25.273+01:00

Marty F, not just yet! On holiday simply. Glad somebody noticed!!

I,ve been logging on every day and no new postings...

2009-08-04T11:35:12.601+01:00

I,ve been logging on every day and no new postings,so I reckon your away and I hope not for your tea,have a good one, Marty F

Westie, sorry about the way these comments are com...

2009-07-31T19:12:55.171+01:00

Westie, sorry about the way these comments are coming but I am on holiday and getting a response out is not always easy.

Yes, you could be absolutely right. Gerry Kelly may well not have made any allegations against Tony Catney. The cop could have made them up. Which of course must make you ask yourself even more what are you doing giving political support to a force which does this

As someone who has also been blamed for starting t...

2009-07-30T00:02:57.640+01:00

As someone who has also been blamed for starting the trouble in Ardoyne on 13th July.

Gerry Kelly of S/F actually told the above to the RTE Northern Editor and the Editor of the Irish News.

Sad as it may well be but it is rightly called felon-setting and is a disgrace for anyone claiming to be an Irish Republican to do so.

Thanks Mackers again for highlighting

Larry I take on board your points. Maybe your fin...

2009-07-29T21:08:49.878+01:00

Larry

I take on board your points. Maybe your final point does outline an option for the long term strategy, even if it is a fall back position.

I don't think that is a bad position to have and it would indicate that Irish Unity is the ultimate goal of the Partyalong with it's supporters. It was never going to happen tomorrow or the next day, but it has to stay as a

Westie, look at the way the media are stone w...

2009-07-28T17:18:38.724+01:00

Westie,
look at the way the media are stone walling anything and anyone remotely anti GFA and the hype given to the SF leadership over the last years. If you look at the huge sea change in the SF position at every oportunity/necessity then I suggest the 'masses' and party activists are indeed hypnotised. Gullible was an unfortunate choice of word. The people can only play with

Larry Just on your last point, in West Belfast, a...

2009-07-27T22:46:20.623+01:00

Larry

Just on your last point, in West Belfast, a fair number of activists would have been involved in the late eighties and early nineties. Going beyond that and you are talking bout people in their fifties or sixties possibly.

That isn't bad given that political activists are difficult to come by in any era, and for any party.

Nor would I begrudge anyone who

Anthony, I mentioned in a previous post that ...

2009-07-26T12:30:37.164+01:00

Anthony,
I mentioned in a previous post that it was my contention that anyone not playing the peace process 'game' or anyone who might even slightly undermine it would soon feel as though they were being worked at/attacked from both ends. ie from [so called]Republicans and the security forces. This is by no means new. It's a disorienting experience but something that has

anthony One possible alternative to the journalis...

2009-07-25T18:34:16.206+01:00

anthony

One possible alternative to the journalist telling anything but the truth would be that the PSNI/RUC man told the journalist a mistruth, knowing that it would end up in one of the Sunday morning rags, and would cause further division between sinn Féin and the other Republican groups.

No-one, no matter what shade of Irish Republicanism they come from, would be

What a disheartening article, the way SF deals wit...

2009-07-25T12:18:29.034+01:00

What a disheartening article, the way SF deals with former members in the North has always been questionable, as it is not only designed to punish those who differ with the party's peace process strategy, but forewarn all those who are thinking of following in the likes of Tony Catney's footsteps to think again, and consider the consequences.

For a former republican prisoner