Friday, August 22, 2008

Strong, Strong, Strong . . . But a certain logic reasonates

Wednesday August 20, 2008
Fundraising For Good Old Martin
By Charley Brady

Here is a bedroom story for you, boys and girls. Are you sitting comfortably? You are? Good. Then I'll begin.

There once was a monster in Ireland who was responsible in, oh say many ways for killings and knee cappings, but that was all right because he was a freedom fighter.
So it didn't really matter that he was responsible for putting poor souls through years of unrelieved misery as they grieved for their dead, many of whom are missing and whose bodies still lie in unmarked graves.

Later, much much later, he decided that he would become a good monster. He decided that he would become a - wait for it - Good Guy. Because you see now boys and girls, he had become a grown up. Or pretended to be for his own ends. And on that note we shall return to things as they are in the real world.

I've never tried to hide my loathing of these people, mainly because of disappointment at how badly they have let us down with their grubby murdering and drug-running ways while they pretend to speak in our name.

This, of course, has nothing at all to do with the fact that Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister had the bare-faced cheek and lack of sensitivity to appear at the very moving ceremony for the people who were murdered in Omagh ten years ago this week.
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