Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams have been called the "Godfathers
of Terrorism" by the UUP leadership. There are hundreds of Irish men and
women sitting in British prisons, convicted of terrorist activity. Whether they
are guilty or not, is not relevant to this story. What is relevant is that
despite the alleged crimes of these folks, there is one Irish Republican that is
considered so dangerous by the British Government, that they have kept her
locked securely away for her entire life! |
The fear that this woman's name must bring to the Blair
Administration, to continue the policy of detainment to this very day. One has
to feel sorry for poor Tony, imagine if this woman was to get a trial, she might
slip through the fingers of justice and
who knows what she might do. To
be fair, poor Tony has inherited the situation. That's not saying he's been any
better than Major ever was. The woman in question is Loinnir McCotter. Don't
know her? Don't remember the details of her case? Loinnir, daughter of Roisin
McAliskey
now remember? Loinnir has been in British custody her ENTIRE
life. Imagine such fear over a 6-month-old. Talk about having your reputation
preceding you. |
Perhaps we should give old Tony the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps
it's just his advisors that fear little Loinnir. (Perhaps that's a bunch of
gobshite.) Perhaps it's just a "stay-the-course" policy regarding
the Six Counties. This got us to thinking: we wondered what might have happened
in the transition of Tory to Labour? A possible scenario: |