Collusion

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Provisional Sinn Fein had secured legislation which will cover up the truth about collusion between members of the security forces and loyalist terror groups.

Provisional Sinn Fein had negotiated an amnesty for rogue members of the police and Army which would keep them out of jail. That may not bother the British Government or Provisional Sinn Fein.

It will certainly go down well with the Army`s secret Forces Research Unit that spearheaded collusion. But it will bother victims of state planned murder. They have not been consulted about a word of this.

We have seen collusion in the past between the state and paramilitaries. Now we are seeing collusion on the past between Provisional Sinn Fein and the British Government - each helping the other to cover up their dirty secrets.

The hypocrisy and barefaced dishonesty of Provisional Sinn Fein in its collusion with the British Government in covering up the past has caused great offence to many victims families

Provisional Sinn Fein now ignores victims of collusion when they travel to Westminster and Stormont.

This Bill will deny victims of collusion, state killings the truth about what happened.

It covers not just Provisionals, but loyalists and people in the police or Army who committed murder. Not one of them will do time, and that is what Provisional Sinn Fein has signed up to.

It is seen as a good deal for Provisional Sinn Fein, it is also an even better deal for the British Government, which can close the books on everything from the Finucane murder to the Dublin/Monaghan bombings without answering awkward questions.

But it is a very bad deal for everyone else.

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OK Collusion is Collusion, who have been the touts????? :wink:

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'OTR' DEAL IS "DISGUSTING" SAYS FUGITIVE.

A BELFAST man currently on the run in the 26 Counties said on November 11 that he was "disgusted" with the deal struck between the Provisionals and the British government over the proposed return of people "on-the-run" to the Six Counties.

Under the terms of the deal, announced by the British supreme in the Six Counties, Peter Hain, in British House of Commons at Westminster on November 9, on-the-runs wanted for offences committed before the Stormont Agreement will face a two-stage legal process.

If they are granted a certificate allowing them to take part in the scheme, they will be brought before a special tribunal, which will have the same powers as a British Crown court. They will, however, be exempt from arrest, questioning and remand in relation to the offences. There will be no jury sitting at the tribunals.

In the event of a conviction, the person will be eligible to receive a licence guaranteeing that he or she will not be jailed. The same amnesty applies to members of the British Crown Forces wanted for crimes committed on civilians before the Stormont Agreement.

Stiofán Mac Gib was 19 when he arrested at his home in west Belfast in 1978 for membership of the IRA and possession of a weapon. He said he is totally disgusted with the terms of the amnesty.

"I was neither a member of the IRA or in possession of a weapon when I was arrested just before my 20th birthday," he told a Belfast newspaper.

"For 27 years, I have had to live in the Free State for something I did not do and now [Provisional] Sinn Féin tells me - through the media - that I have to stand trial in a British court.

"I do not even recognise the state, never mind the court."

Stiofán MacGib said he was struck by the legitimacy the deal gives to the British state and court system.

"I now have to put myself at the mercy of a British court and to do so would be to own up to the legitimacy of the British presence in the North," he said. "It seems like the British are happy to accept the [Provisional] IRA's disbandment and decommissioning but will still assert their authority.

"How can we, as Republicans, say that the British have no legitimate right to be in the North and yet expect people to attend their court?"

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