As election looms next year on the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising, the Irish Independent, in tandem with this sitting Government, will stop at nothing in trying to derail Sinn Fein from being in the next government. And I mean nothing!
The order has already been out for decades: round up the usual suspects that are not so usual for they are always Sinn Fein. No charge against them is ever followed through for there is never any crime, and without that no evidence is ever procured that simply did not exist in the first place.
Lofty statements like, “A file has been sent to the DPP” never arrives and they don't expect them too either, and then there is their beloved sources. They come in all shapes and sizes and can be a bit throaty: informed sources, inside sources, sources close to Gerry Adams and, well, sources close to all the usual suspects as well.
Then there is the close friend sources, people close to sources of sources; and If all of that does not work there is the ‘allegations’ of rape, suspects for rape, the un-convicted rapists, the cover-up of rapists and the paedophillia rings within.
Just like the shoot to kill policies by the police forces in northern Ireland, just being suspected of being in the IRA or Sinn Fein would get you murdered by them without even the benefit of a ‘kangaroo court.’ At least the enemy was in plain sight in the north but in the republic it is harder to see. In fact it would be a mark of democracy for the Irish government if all the fictitious and false ‘allegations’ against Sinn Fein were even given the benefit of at least a kangaroo court. But that would mean there is a chance that the allegations will prove to be untrue once again, and that is a risk that is too big a leap for them to take. So it is back to trial by media, false arrests, and stories written based upon the permanently anonymous sources.
When Mary Lou Mc Donald can be found guilty by her peers for abusing Dail privilege for outing off- shore Ansbacher accounts by corrupt politicians, where does that leave Joan Burton for liking Gerry Adams, in a public platform, to the the North Korean dictator, comparing his democratically elected position of Sinn Fein of 32 years as “authoritarian.” The mind doth boggle!!
The last time Mary Lou Mc Donald was censured this way was when she robustly challenged the same Joan Burton on water charges; charges that have already been paid in taxes and is the one that'll bring this government to its knees.
As always, when a government is cornered by their own unaccountability and that of the previous governments, that lasted a lot longer than 32 years and elected on a manifesto of complete lies, their reaction is not to address the issues at hand but the complainant. They feel pressed now and the usual suspects will be rounded on like never before.
For the undecided voter out there it will be time to make a decision. Can we now afford to go back to “politics as usual”? Can we afford another shifty Bertie, a drunken Cowen, or a gut wrenching duracell battery monologue of the needless and listless lies of Mary Harney. Can we now afford too to go back to Aunty Burton, the economical diatribes of Enda Kenny, as he talks to his imaginary friends, both here and abroad, while trying to tell us how good we really have it? Can we go back to Alan Shatter teaching us that the boys in blue are as straight as arrows and all beyond reproach? Yet, he has never met a protester that he didn't like or pretend he did not see. There is more than that at stake as we all know, for if that was all there was to it then we would be in good shape.
This coming election decisions must be made by the undecided voter. The worse decision you can ever make is to do nothing, and if it is a first that you decide to vote Sinn Fein, then that is the only time you will ever know whether they are the party of the future or just a relic of the past. They are always busy on the ground where politics begins and ends and that is local. This cannot be said about the rest.
As a voter I do not always agree with them, but their integrity is bound with their determinism and that will keep me voting this way for the alternatives that have been tried for decades have turned the values, hopes and aspirations of our founding fathers of this Republic in their graves. Someone died in order that successive generations of Irishmen may be free and I cannot ever ignore that. It is emotive and we owe it to this generation and the future one’s that those values must be restored somewhat. It is not enough to return to the melancholy cry of deep meaning from Samuel Beckett when he said: “I would rather die in chains in France than live in freedom in Ireland.” That freedom based on equality still eludes that has keep the corruption of politics in a permanent theocracy on this small but beautiful land.
Give Sinn Fein the chance for the first time if not reverse way in the next election. This time around, please vote for the usual suspects: Sinn Fein, and give truth a chance with them.
Barry Clifford
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