The PSNI Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, in a leaked memo to senior staff has apparently criticised SF and the SDLP for their attacks on RUC members for covering up loyalist killers. Now leaving aside the fact that 'leaked' is normally a euphamism for 'press release', someone needs to grab Hugh and say NO NO NO.
You can't spin this one as being Sinn Feins fault. You cant accuse nationalists in the SDLP of making up these reports and over reacting. This isn't unfortunate or unlucky in the Malcolm McArthur sense, this is collusion, this is perversion of justice. Blaming those who criticise you is missing the wood for the splinter on the edge of the twig, on the branch on the tree in the bog down in the valley - oh.
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Wednesday 31 January 2007
Thursday 25 January 2007
Unionists Accuse SF / SDLP of Grandstanding Tactics - No Debate on Collusion
The two main unionist parties in Norn Iron have ruled out any attempts to debate RUC collusion in the murder of Catholics on the grounds that it would lead to Grandstanding by Nationalist parties.
This is of course a similar tactic to that used by Stalin in an attempt to remove critics of the fourth five year plan, (the one that was big into tractors and betamax video machines) by ruling out all debate and ruling in pogroms.
To compound their sins on this one, the DUP are defending the rights of police officers to obstruct the investigation into this matter.
The DUP's Ian Paisley Jnr claims they were within their rights to withhold co-operation because Ms O'Loan was engaged in a "fishing exercise" without any hard evidence of collusion.He has also rejected suggestions that they had moral obligation to co-operate, saying: "At the end of the day, it boils down to what is your legal right."
This is of course akin to saying a murderer being questioned by police has a legal right not to assist the policeman with his investigations, because a. the cop is only fishing for information without the evidence to prove it and b. he is acting within his legal rights.
As stupid positions go, this one really takes the biscuit.
This is of course a similar tactic to that used by Stalin in an attempt to remove critics of the fourth five year plan, (the one that was big into tractors and betamax video machines) by ruling out all debate and ruling in pogroms.
To compound their sins on this one, the DUP are defending the rights of police officers to obstruct the investigation into this matter.
The DUP's Ian Paisley Jnr claims they were within their rights to withhold co-operation because Ms O'Loan was engaged in a "fishing exercise" without any hard evidence of collusion.He has also rejected suggestions that they had moral obligation to co-operate, saying: "At the end of the day, it boils down to what is your legal right."
This is of course akin to saying a murderer being questioned by police has a legal right not to assist the policeman with his investigations, because a. the cop is only fishing for information without the evidence to prove it and b. he is acting within his legal rights.
As stupid positions go, this one really takes the biscuit.
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