Gerry Adams arrested

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MalteseMick said:
I am not sure what information she would have had that was useful to the security forces. The Police and British Army did try to recruit informants all the time though, and they were very useful in the early 1970's when PIRA had no idea what they were doing (Adams was only like 21 and McGuinness about 19 at the time - it was a bunch of angry kids playing war with no organisational skill).

Anyway, I don't buy that she was shot simply for being a former Protestant (she converted to Catholicism, and half my mother's side were actual Protestants married to Catholics - there were much easier targets than widowed mothers of 10 if you wanted to be sectarian) - and I think it more likely they actually did suspect of her informing, whether that was true, or whether they tried to embellish the evidence they had or not.
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The IRA (through Brendan Hughes) alleged she had a transmitter in her house, they also said she ran off with a soldier, both tales have been shown to have been blatant lies. The IRA hierarchy have modified their story over the years because they know it was unjustifiable, but some are still clinging desperately to any feeble remnant of justification.
 
The real point of this is that the PNSI have tried to stitch Adams up at the risk of kicking it all off again.It's playing into the hands of the loons who are trying to reignite The Troubles, and for what? They have no real prospect of pinning anything on Adams I suspect that Ciaran is right and he will have been twisting them round his finger.
 
Cruyff's Turn said:
The real point of this is that the PNSI have tried to stitch Adams up at the risk of kicking it all off again.It's playing into the hands of the loons who are trying to reignite The Troubles, and for what? They have no real prospect of pinning anything on Adams I suspect that Ciaran is right and he will have been twisting them round his finger.
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Is that right?
 
DevAdvocate said:
He's a proven liar Mick or do you really believe him when he says he was never a member of the IRA?
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I'm not one for the cult of personality - and Adams doesn't do much for me. I think it's quite clear that he was involved with the IRA, whether or not he gets off on a technicality because he never put his hand up and said the pledge is another thing.

Also, when it comes to lies, at the time your boys were prone to spreading quite a few themselves if the propaganda suited http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12517843
 
As I understand it Adams was always Sinn Fein rather than at the operational end.Of course the British Government have an unblemished record when it comes to telling the truth so in view of that I suppose we should take their word without questioning.
 
MalteseMick said:
I'm not one for the cult of personality - and Adams doesn't do much for me. I think it's quite clear that he was involved with the IRA, whether or not he gets off on a technicality because he never put his hand up and said the pledge is another thing.

Also, when it comes to lies, at the time your boys were prone to spreading quite a few themselves if the propaganda suited http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12517843
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Indeed and if there is any truth in it one would hope the culprits are punished whoever they happen to be, the difference is though in that case no one is claiming the Pub's occupants kinda deserved it.

Cruyff's Turn said:
As I understand it Adams was always Sinn Fein rather than at the operational end.Of course the British Government have an unblemished record when it comes to telling the truth so in view of that I suppose we should take their word without questioning.
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Adams was IRA, it's a fact and I was hoping we could avoid the road that leads to whataboutery but nevertheless here we are so let me ask you a question, where did I ever say the British Government have an unblemished record?
 
MalteseMick said:
I'm not one for the cult of personality - and Adams doesn't do much for me. I think it's quite clear that he was involved with the IRA, whether or not he gets off on a technicality because he never put his hand up and said the pledge is another thing.

Also, when it comes to lies, at the time your boys were prone to spreading quite a few themselves if the propaganda suited http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12517843
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^^^^ Typical oirish ****. Lying, murdering, thieving, it wisny me sir.
 
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