Provos Have Adopted Unionist Position
Referring to a Republican protest in Cobh, Co. Cork, Martin McGuinness commented that outgoing DUP leader Ian Paisley has done more to end division than Republican Sinn Féin. A spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin said that this was unsurprising as his party had now adopted the Unionist position. RSF Director of Publicity, Richard Walsh, said: “Mr. McGuinness asked who has done more to end division in Ireland – Ian Paisley or Republican Sinn Féin? Republican Sinn Féin has sought to address the root cause of conflict in Ireland, namely the cancerous British presence. However the removal of the British presence was precluded from the negotiations on the Stormont Agreement – a document which his party has signed up to. “The Provos have tried to silence any opposition to the Stormont sell-out of 1998. On the 22nd April, members of Republican Sinn Féin were refused entry to what was allegedly a public meeting in Silverbridge, Co. Armagh. They had gone there to confront Provo leaders, who were seeking to promote the Stormont Agreement on its tenth anniversary, and the first anniversary of the resurrection of the Stormont Assembly. But they did not wish for people to hear the opposing view – let alone in the heart of South Armagh. “Martin McGuinness says that he will entertain Ian Paisley over Republicans any day. This is hardly surprising given the fact that both he and his party have now adopted the Unionist position. But we in Republican Sinn Féin are committed to the ending of English rule in Ireland and the emancipation of the Irish people.”

wee Marty is such a loser. But even accounting for his loathesome, pathetic need to sell out, hyping Paisley at the expense of RSF is beyond sad.

RSF represents everything he is no longer (if he ever was that is), Republican. It is the public organized manifestation of it. It isn't about personalities or cummain numbers or votes its about the ideal that he walked away from long ago and has worked against since. Thats whats he's knocking. Republicanism itself, and those who didn't find it as easy as himself to walk away from it.

I found these while looking in Robert Whites ROB biography for some numbers for another thread on another board and Thought they were Quite appropriate for this thread, Quotations from 1986: Ruarí Ó Brádaigh: A Chairdre, I put it to you this way: we have not been wrong for 65 years. we have not been wrong for all those 70(0?) years -we have been right and we should continue to be right... In God's name, don't let it come out that tomorrow, the next day or the day after, that Haughey, Fitzgerald, Spring, and all in London, can come out and say, "Ah it took 65 years but we have them at last," And those in Leinster House who have done everything, the firing squads, the prison cells, the internment camps, the hunger strike, the lot, and weren't able to break this movement, they can come and say "at last we have them toeing the line. It took as 65 years but they have come in from the cold, now they have come in from the wilderness and we have them now" NEVER! that is what I say to you--- never. Martin McGuinness, later that same day: First of all, I would Like to give a commitment on behalf of the leadership that we have absolutely no intention of going into Westminster or Stormount... I reject the notion that entering Leinster House would mean an end to Sinn Féin's unapologetic support of the Irish people to oppose in arms the british forces of occupation. That, my friends is a principle which a minority in this hall might doubt, but which I believe all out opponents clearly understand.

PSF long ago became parodies of themselves; this is just another sad chapter in their already sorrowful demise.

Good Point, I cant for the life of me understand why the rank and file can't, don't or won't see that.