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Northern Ireland - The History of Terrorism Repeats Itself.
By The Anglo American | September 22, 2009
Omagh N. Ireland
This month has seen has seen an event typical of the past 30 years of violence in Ulster. A 600-pound bomb was defused before killing its intended target of senior police officers. Such was the size of the device the collateral damage would have been high. Several houses would have been destroyed along with the families inhabiting them.
Where is Tony Blair’s hand of history now?
In June 2008 The Anglo American published Northern Ireland The Phoney Peace. We asked the question - had Tony Blair and Jonathan Powell really negotiated peace in our time?
Sadly, like Neville Chamberlain before them, their peace is not worth the paper it is written on.
Despite spending a large amount of his political capital on the province Tony Blair opted, in the end, for the quick fix. He ruthlessly jettisoned the moderate voices and their politicians by focusing on the extremists - elected or otherwise.
The Six counties of Northern Ireland
If ever there was proof that terrorism could win against a democratic mandate this was it. Ulster’s constitution was adapted to accommodate Sean Fein/IRA in a political structure where they could beat the united Ireland drum with words not bullets.
Blair’s fatal mistake was to believe that a united Ireland was the key issue. It is certainly the central thrust for Sinn Fein/IRA but there is a difference.
The Sinn Fein/IRA leadership has done much to distort the argument, especially in the United States. Their well-oiled propaganda machine toured many US University campuses. That the Northern Irish people have democratically voted not to become a part of Ireland appears to be mere technicality. This was hardly surprising for an organization with little democratic mandate.
What makes society crumble, like the cliffs on the North Antrim coast, is the lack of human rights in Northern Ireland. It remains so today as it did 40 years ago when “one man one vote” was painted all over the walls of Ulster.
Blair failed to realize that human rights were never a major issue for Sinn Fein/IRA. On the contrary the lack of human rights played into their hands. It allowed them to influence and recruit unemployed, frustrated catholic youth for their grander purpose - power.
Now that Sinn Fein/IRA has power it should be no surprise that are still large numbers of unemployed, frustrated catholic youth, pushed to the margins as they always have been, in living history.
The Best of Enemies Now the Best of Friends
How ironic that the perpetrators of their plight are Sinn Fein/IRA’s partners in the constitutional process. One hopes that Orwell’s Animal Farm is still a part of the Ulster school curriculum as it is difficult to tell the political pigs from the farmers.
Blair lacked the intestinal fortitude and, probably, the political comprehension, to attack the heart of the beast - The Orange Order. This male only, Protestant, secret society, spreads its tentacles far beyond Northern Ireland’s political forum. Its influence is felt in every single hall of every government body. The Chicago gangster aspects of Sinn Fein/ IRA and their bank robbing ways are mirrored by the suffocating corruption in the government corridors. There is a deck of cards that have always worked against Ulster Catholics. It has always been institutional and it remains so.
No wonder young catholic people do what they have always done right across Ireland - they leave. The alternative is doing the bidding of some old decrepit, unreformed terrorist. For the moment, they appear to be the only people interested in them.
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