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Sinn Fein/I.R.A. should not be allowed into executive positions
in the Northern Ireland Assembly. This is the view of the
great mass of people in the unionist majority community, who
have been greatly alarmed and concerned over recent months
by the political drift towards pan-nationalism in this supposedly
integral part of the United Kingdom.
It is a view which must be heeded by not just the unionist
members of the Stormont Assembly and MP.'s at Westminster,
but by Her Majesty's Government, if the Union is to be preserved
in this Province and proper democracy upheld.
There must be combined unionist resistance to the insidious
proposals such as the admittance of unrepentant terrorists
into an Assembly executive and all-Ireland bodies with powers
that give a foreign government the right to interfere in the
day-to-day running of Northern Ireland.
Otherwise, our Province is rapidly moving down a road which
will ultimately lead to a united Ireland, and the gradual
erosion of Protestant and Unionist identity on this island.
The time for fudge and compromise of the Unionist position
is over. Unionists of all shades have got to recognise the
dangers inherent in the present political process and they
must take steps to totally disentangle themselves from it
- NOW!
Irrespective of whether or not there is decommissioning of
illegal weaponry, the militant republican movement, has forfeited
the right to be in government, as a result of the murderous
campaign that it had directed against innocent people during
the past three decades.
What is spuriously described as "a peace process"
has in effect been a charter to facilitate wrong-doers and
the more disruptive elements in our society, and to cause
further pain and suffering to the innocent victims of the
Troubles.
Tragically, we have a Government in power in Westminster
which sets its stall be appeasing terrorists and other destabilising
influences at work in this community.
Every Government initiative, and every pronouncement, is
directed towards placating those who are still in possession
of their large caches of guns and explosives and who show
no desire to decommission, or to disband their organisations.
Permanent peace and stability is the ultimate goal of the
overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland, both
Protestant and Roman Catholics, but when the price to pay
for such a scenario is allowing representatives of terrorists
to take seats in government without a total hand-over of their
illegal weaponry and an absolute commitment to democratic
and peaceful means, then the answer of all right-thinking
people must surely be NO.
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