Adams and the Afrikaners
Unlike Fr. Reid he didn't use the "Nazi" word, but Gerry Adams has stirred the pot by talking about the "Afrikaner wing of unionism". He told US supporters at a New York fund raiser that "few human beings of my acquaintance are as petty and mean-spirited and
negative as those in the Afrikaner wing of unionism."
Remember this is on the eve of a DUP Executive meeting at which those alleged "Afrikaners" are due to be briefed on the latest state of the negotiations inside Stormont Castle.
The DUP's Robin Newton has countered by accusing the Sinn Fein President of indulging in a "hopelessly sectarian outburst, which bears no semblance to reality."
Now, as I was saying earlier, the mood music inside the Castle WAS improving recently...
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Mark
ADAMS IS RIGHT ABOUT THE AFRIKANER WING OF UNIONISM........................BUT
That's rich, coming from a Fascist Liar.
Anyone want to refute my accusations?
Susie
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Adam's comments show up his real feelings on the unionist people - as outsiders who don't belong. My views on Adams? That he represents the Milosevic/Karadzic wing of nationalism. The man is a compulsive liar. Right enough, if my past was as bloody and shameful as his, I might want to cover it up.
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there is clearly something very broken with unionism as a political force. it's all very well for supporters of unionism to fire insults at adams but the fact remains that outside this small place, in the wider world, his words ring true. the forced coalition and the assembly itself is becoming a machine to generate rope for unionists to hang themselves with. we have had 'die groot krokodil' maybe what we all need now is a F W de Klerk.
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Mark
ADAMS ABROAD, CHAOS AT HOME
I wonder what the Afrikaner wing of Unionism will make of Sinn Fein's involvement in the sanctuary given to a mass murderer.
Will Robinson raise the issue at tonight's DUP executive meeting? Or is this another one for brushing under the carpet, as was the case in respect of the McCartney, Donaldson and Quinn murders?
Susie
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billy_carryduff...
firing insults at Adams?
or demanding the truth from Adams that he is so keen to exact from others?
is nationalism also broken because Gerry was firing insults at the DUP?
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Gerry Adams, on contemporary western socio-economic political terms, is a complete and utter dud.
He went to the Republic on a mandate of 'equality' and lost it personally, now he thinks he can use it in the North with a different outcome.
Those who do similar things again and again (even this outburst) and expect a very different outcome (movement on policing and language) are insane.
Nuff said.
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Adams is of course a fully paid up member of the Mugabe-ite wing of Irish nationalism and is always looking for a way to destroy Northern Ireland.
His armed struggle failed when the IRA were frustrated and confounded by the determined resolution of the Protestant people who refused to give in to there murder and mayhem.
Now he is just trying the tried and trusted method of misinformation and lies.
Talk on Mr Adams till your blue or green in the face and you still won't get your way.
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I'm left wondering what South Africans make of all this? Especially white South Africans!!
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I don't think it's fair to use a different ethnic group to presume an insult. Especially when the Afrikaner reference is desiged to be as insulting as the converted term 'fenian'. Are Sinn Fein not really the BNP equivalent or is that too also utter insult and inflammatory? If so, I should get into NI politics, though I'm not sure I'm quite biggoted enough to manage it just yet, give me time...
I think that the depolaristion of politics in northern ireland has started and not overdue. Once each side has played for petty points the community in the North of Ireland, Ulster, will certainly be sick to death of forced politics based on the propogation of fear and traditional nostalgic stalemate.
Till we ignore Adams and he retires and curls up beside his best friend and partner in crime (ian!) this sort of nonsense will still make the press and take us away from the main goal of tackling real issues with actual importance without greater political weight than they carry.
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