The vomit-inducing obsequies to a murdering torturer

Until now, I have refrained from commenting on the death of Martin McGuiness, the well-known mass murderer - OK, perhaps not 'well-known' because there's none so deaf, dumb and blind as those, and there are many of them, who are determined to ignore 'the bleedin' obvious'.  However, today at The Coffee House there are two articles on the subject of McGuiness, and over at The Telegraph another one by a man who knows where-of he speaks - Lord Norman Tebbit.

To be fair to Stephen Paisley who offers an unconvincing shroud to partially cover the memory of a mass murderer, he makes no attempt to shield McGuiness from the crimes he committed but he maintains, in effect, that his reversion to a 'peace process' at the end absolves him of some of his sins.

McGuinness chose to sit down, make peace, and allow his legacy to take care of itself. He put the lives of his community ahead of the allure of ideological purity, set his course against every impulse and doctrine of his movement, and as a result Northern Ireland was able to move forward.

Total twaddle, as Lord Tebbit makes clear when he reminds us that the main motivation for McGuinness and his gangster buddies to cut a peace deal was to save their own necks! 

The Army and our intelligence services had penetrated the IRA organisation right up to the governing Army Council. No one in that organisation knew who he could trust as a fellow terrorist, or who had been suborned and was a British spy.

McGuinness, himself, knew that there were several detailed police investigations into past murders, particularly that of Frank Hegarty, in which he had played a leading role.  It was only a matter of time before he would be arrested and charged with murder and so, miraculously, the IRA decided to sue for peace.  John Major, desperate to end his miserable era in an office which was forever over-shadowed by 'that woman', seized the proffered olive branch and agreed that the police dossiers on McGuinness would be 'disappeared'.  Needless to say, his successor at No. 10, Tony Blair, even more eager to strut his stuff on the world's stage, continued the sell-out by ensuring that no IRA killers would ever face trial - but numerous soldiers and policemen would!

Douglas Murray describes the obituaries to McGuiness as being "morally illiterate".  However, he hopes that now the psycho-killer is dead, perhaps the deeply buried files on his criminality will be resurrected.

As I pointed out in the Spectator six years ago, the British government somewhere has the files on McGuinness’s involvement in multiple murders, in particular his involvement in the killing of Frank Hegarty. The government of John Major deliberately ‘disappeared’ these files in order to pursue their negotiations with the almost defeated IRA (the now textbook example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory). And as I imply in my book on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry there are many facts around McGuinness’s involvement on that and many other days which are yet to come out. They were never going to come out in McGuinness’s lifetime, but perhaps we can now hope that they will come out in ours.

Perhaps the least surprising obituary comes from that malignant pile of Scottish offal, Alex Salmond, who praised McGuinness as "a friend of Scotland".  With 'friends' like that, who needs enemies and perhaps someone will ask Salmond how many Scottish soldiers were killed by McGuinness and his fellow psychos?

 

Comments

[AussieD]

May he rot in hell. Politicians always sell out the service personnel they expect to put their lives on the line.

[Whitewall]

Sounds like some of this could have the potential to restart trouble in Northern Ireland?

[Penseivat]

I'll be visiting Northern Ireland next year to see some ex Army colleagues and would like to visit McGuiness' grave........ with a full bladder.

[Whyaxye]

Thanks for the excerpts and summaries, DD. My favourite so far is the one by Alistair Campbell (for whom the term "moral illiterate could have been coined!) in the Guardian. It is entitled "Tough-minded, abrupt, likable, human: Martin McGuinness". That's a bit like an obituary entitled "Uncompromising, widely travelled, devout, family man: Bin Laden".

The most thought-provoking quote of yesterday was from John Humphrys on the Today programme. He said he found McGuinness to be "personally terrifying". This from a legendarily tough interviewer who talked to him in a nice warm studio over coffee. Makes you think, doesn't it?

I think there is some truth in the view that the IRA was compromised by infiltration, but it leaves the question as to why the UK government surrendered so abjectly to them. When you have the advantage, then surely you follow through. I guess the answer is a mixture of fatigue and that cretin Blair.

Anyway, he's gone. Let's hope that Douglas Murray is correct, and a post mortem examination of McGuinness' career will send his reputation to join the man himself.

[Penseivat]

Whyaxye,
There was a rumour some years ago that McGuiness threatened to name Republican supporters in British high society if he was ever arrested and charged. It was therefore decided he be left alone "for the greater good".

[Whyaxye]

Penseivat,

Ah, interesting. Let's hope somebody names them now!

I guess McGuinness was just the type of psychopath who gets lucky whenever a community breaks down into turmoil. Of all the atrocities committed by the IRA,the one that I still find hardest to bear is Warrington. Three year old Jonathan Ball killed by a bomb while buying a Mother's Day card. Twelve year old Tim Parry died a month later. Two bombs were placed in cast-iron litter bins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks

God have mercy on us all.

[Whitewall]

I'm trying to keep up with the terrorist attack events outside Parliament. Sick.

[jimmy glesga]

David, YOU ARE BEING KIND BY USING THE WORD OFFAL TOWARDS THAT PIECE OF SHIT.
Fundamentalists think they have the right to kill or maim anyone for their cause. What a tragedy in human history for them to promise not to kill and they get to collect their salaries.
I do not wish to be unkind to our USA readers but the PIRA had support from certain US politicians that probably made it impossible for the British to wipe out the genocidal PIRA.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, not only known pols, but many thousands of Irish Catholics in Boston, NY and Chicago. Plenty of bloody hands over here.

[rapscallion]

Jimmy Glesga - I remember going to Boston on a ship visit in the early 90's. I clearly remember talking to some of those Bosonites who thought so highly of the IRA until it was pointed out what they actually did. Some were horrified, but some were unrepentant. Hopefully 9/11 will have put that right in their minds. They still have blood on their hands though.