http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html en-gb 30 Thu 24 Dec 2009 17:54:27 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=17#comment8 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. Wed 19 Nov 2008 10:25:02 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=15#comment7 I'm left wondering what South Africans make of all this? Especially white South Africans!! Tue 18 Nov 2008 13:06:22 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=13#comment6 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. Mon 17 Nov 2008 09:08:50 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=11#comment5 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. Fri 14 Nov 2008 14:02:18 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=8#comment4 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? Fri 14 Nov 2008 12:10:34 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=6#comment3 MarkADAMS ABROAD, CHAOS AT HOMEI 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?SusieCarryduff Fri 14 Nov 2008 09:09:06 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=4#comment2 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. Fri 14 Nov 2008 08:47:22 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=2#comment1 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. Thu 13 Nov 2008 23:30:36 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2008/11/adams_and_the_afrikaners.html?page=0#comment0 MarkADAMS IS RIGHT ABOUT THE AFRIKANER WING OF UNIONISM........................BUTThat's rich, coming from a Fascist Liar.Anyone want to refute my accusations?SusieCarryduff Thu 13 Nov 2008 19:51:28 GMT+1