"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
Scumbags, Hopefully Murphy keeps his head up and carries on.
Dolores Kelly has been attacked a lot here in Lurgan, but she keeps going.
These attacks just make ordinary people respect the councillors even more, as none of them seem to let the attacks stop them.
Its sad to think that so called 'republicans' have turned to violence on their own community representitives.
These people are driven by violence and not politics, theyre nothing but hoodlems.
These SF councillors usually live live amongst the community terraced houses in unprotected property, they are vulnerable.
Its all well and good to revert to the "thugs" and "hoodlems" labels, but these attacks are politically motivated. Politics and violence are not mutually exclusive, actually I find they usually go hand in hand. Just more of the same old felon setting from the former felons.
Last edited by groundhog day; 4th June 2009 at 02:52 PM.
These are people with violent tendancies, who use a flimsy political excuse to justify their cravings for arson and attacks.
If it was all about politics they wouldnt attack random innocent people , pull them out of their cars and burn their cars.
They're scumbags who have found a justification for their spiteful attacks, but realistically its not political and changes nothing politically.
This is not 'politically motivated' but criminal. To give it some air of legitimacy is a grave mistake. These are criminal elements in South Armagh that will have to be dealt with.
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
This thread could be retitled " Murphy has a Gerry Fitt experience ".
Conor Murphy’s property suffers an arson attack. Something totally different came to mind when I read the thread title.
I'm not too fond of the guy, but such attacks are unacceptable. I disliked “Lord” Fitt a lot more, but his family didn’t deserve to be targeted either. Very few people deserve it.
whenever political violence doesn't meet with the aims of the state, it is described as thuggery. There is nothing random about the attack on Murphy, Dolores Kelly or those whose cars were hijacked. There were solid politcal reasoning behind it all. You may not agree with their politics, but all you are doing by calling it thuggery and criminality is doing exactly what the brits and constitutional nationalists have always done. Constitutionalism cannot tolerate any dissent to its decision to adopt and work within the british system and tries at every turn to de-politicise and de-legitimise it. But political violence aimed at an illegitimate state and those who prop it up is, and always has been, a legitimate activity.
Dissent is fine, but to equate this violence with some political aspect is naive. The purpose of this arson was to kill or at least to inflict injury, on Murphy and his family. There is nothing political about that.
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
Obviously I do not agree with such an attack, and believe that they have no justification...
But he is administering British Rule in their eyes...
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