BACKING THE IRA...

BACKING THE IRA...: "For decades, the IRA has had a very sympathetic hearing from the BBC. I do not suggest that the BBC supported the killings, the bombings, the maimings carried out by Irish Republicans but it did seem to have a visceral sympathy with the IRA ideal that 'Britain' needs to get out of Northern Ireland.

This morning, the BBC was coming to terms with an attempted massive car bombing of the Policing Board offices in Belfast by Irish republican 'dissidents.' The BBC is forced to report that these 'dissidents' are in fact IRA terrorists who simply seek to further advance their cause by violence but it spins it in a way that suggests that Adams and McGuinness are the 'good' IRA whereas these weekend bombers are the 'bad' IRA. In this way, all the atrocities of the past decades are sanitised.

The BBC had convicted Old Bailey bomber Gerry Kelly on - a man who subsequently put a bullet in a prison officer's head - and let him spout about how dreadful this attempted bombing was and how those who have any information should tell the police all they know. Fine words, but why did the BBC not ask why Kelly and his kin do not tell the police all they know about bombings that DID take innocent life? The hypocrisy is staggering but the BBC do not pursue it. Might it be that the BBC still sees itself as a participant rather than a reporter in what passes for 'peace'?

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