New IRA, new atrocity

Brown condemns N Ireland killings

Gordon Brown: "The whole country is shocked and outraged"

Gordon Brown has condemned an attack on an army base in Northern Ireland which killed two soldiers.

Four other people were also injured when gunmen struck at Massereene army base in County Antrim, 16 miles north of Belfast, on Saturday night.

The prime minister described the attack as "evil" and said "no murderer" would derail the peace process.

The IRA murders again. For all those who have lived and served in that wonderful part of this once great nation, this is not surprising.

Having listened to the utterances of McGuiness and Adams since September 1969 I have only one question for all those who think the troubles are over, what did you expect?

The validity of IRA republicanism lost all credibility when the Free State President, Éamon de Valera, executed IRA henchmen as they were perceived then as a threat to Irish sovereignty. They have practise and rehearsed their slant on the truths so that in Republican papers this murderous attack will soon be a British suicide gone hopelessly correct. As long as Adams and McGuiness draw unearned monies from Westminster and subsequently from the 300.000 plus men and women who served in the Province, then there is little chance of any good happening in Ulster.

On the morning after another atrocity I will make this pronouncement. Tomorrow, those murdering cowards of this new IRA will be standing in queues waiting for handouts from the British public in the guise of dole money. Your and my taxes are being used to subsidise terrorism whether it is from the 8^th century Muslim community or the anti-establishment Catholic bigots. In a Democracy the majority has the right to say no to these outrages. If McGuiness and Adams want my money then they should do something to earn it. Being elected on pure dogma is not enough. Not accepting democratic principles is sufficient to have themselves debarred from politic because their method of political indoctrination should be buried along with the murderous antics of Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Moa Tse Tung and the mad Mullahs of the Middle East.

While much is being said, there is much that is being avoided. The Kennedy Knighthood is a slap for all loyalists and again those who stood on the barricades in warring Ulster. Shahid Malek still holds the competence of this corrupt Government, even when his words are seen as seditious and insulting to those of us who were actually involved in the historical events; woe betide any Englishman who dare public castigate this rotten dilution of a once great tribe.