Terrorists reach decomission deadline and are given another deadline!

[st333ve]

That'll teach them!

When is terrorism not terrorism?
When its unionist terrorism.

If they dont hand over their racketeering and gun running weapons then they will get hit with more deadlines lol!

How many more years are these gangsters going to be allowed to threaten communities?

Why does the anti-terrorist laws not apply?

Why do we have to live in a place with many armed terrorist organisations that the British refuse to disarm?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7764359.stm

The government must stand firm on its deadline for loyalist decommissioning, SDLP leader Mark Durkan has said.

Loyalist paramilitaries have been given yet another year to get rid of their weapons, but the Government said this was their last chance.

Mr Durkan said loyalists had to take the deadline seriously.

"This is the Johnny Logan rule of government 'What's Another Year'," he said, referring to the Eurovison song....

[Aindriu]

I was just about to post this myself. My immediate question when I read it was why FFS?????

Have the eejits in the NI office no sense at all? Have they no idea what this could do to the assembly and the whole peace process?? Talk about feeding dissident republicans, let alone telling the loyalist eejits that they are immune!!

Morons the lot of them

[Theobald]

Now is the time for SF and SDLP to threaten bringing down the executive and initialising joint rule.

[Aindriu]

Now is the time for SF and SDLP to threaten bringing down the executive and initialising joint rule.

But they won't because they are like the Greens here - desperate to cling on to their bit of power.

[clearview]

SF will never bring down the assembly - being there is their only strategy and pays the mortgages of their senior members. Some Unionists would welcome the collapse of said assembly. As regards Loyalist weapons - it's hard to see them handing them in with the dissident threat being so current. I personally doubt they'll ever decommission.

[blinding]

Maybe just maybe some things just have not changed that much in Northern Ireland.

Certain types of terrorist were always exceptable to the british.

The softly softly approach to loyalist terrorists exposes the british eastablishment for the hypocritical sham that it always was and evidently still is.

[slap_harry]

Pretty typical, even Jeffrey Donaldson's reaction to an extension being somehow the right decision. Does anyone remember the furor when the PIRA were actually decommissioning and that wasn't good enough for them that they had to have so snaps for the album? Extremely hypocritical.

The British government will not chase loyalist paramilitaries to disarm because:

1. they are no threat to english people or Londons economy (although indirectly they are as they ensure that the areas in which they infest cannot develop properly)

2. The British establishment was up to it's oxters in colluding with them. If they were to go in gung ho and start arresting and shooting like they were Brazillians trying to catch a tube, the loyalists wouldn't be long spilling the beans on how involved the British government was in terrorism.

[Aindriu]

The British establishment was up to it's oxters in colluding with them. If they were to go in gung ho and start arresting and shooting like they were Brazillians trying to catch a tube, the loyalists wouldn't be long spilling the beans on how involved the British government was in terrorism.

What is more likely is that the loyalists would turn on the PSNI and army. Remember the loyalist reaction to Druncree some years ago? How many RUC (as was) officers were burned and/or intimidated out of their homes by so called 'loyalists'?

[clearview]

The interesting thing about Loyalist paramilitaries is how many were sent to jail. You'd have thought that if they were in deep collusion with The Security Forces that very few would have seen the inside of a prison, let alone the thousands who actually did. In most countries attempting to put down a rebellion, paramilitaries work in collusion with the state and don't go to jail - in fact they get paid. The UK seems to have been the exception.

[blinding]

The interesting thing about Loyalist paramilitaries is how many were sent to jail. You'd have thought that if they were in deep collusion with The Security Forces that very few would have seen the inside of a prison, let alone the thousands who actually did. In most countries attempting to put down a rebellion, paramilitaries work in collusion with the state and don't go to jail - in fact they get paid. The UK seems to have been the exception.

Plenty of them were on the payroll and an occasional stay in jail was necessary to boost their standing.
They certainly did not make the sacifices that republican prisoners made.