But nations evolve. And that antipathy should have faded away. When you start targeting innocent people, there's a problem.
Posted on 04/14/2005 3:20:52 AM PDT by cooper72
A sister of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney has said she was threatened at her home in the Short Strand area.
Paula McCartney said a woman told her she would be put out of the area.
The family also said they had to stop handing out leaflets about a vigil in her brother's memory when they were confronted by about a dozen people.
Mr McCartney, 33, was stabbed after a row in a Belfast bar. The IRA has been blamed for the murder and interference with evidence and witnesses.
The family said Mr McCartney's partner, Bridgeen Hagans, was also told to get out of the area.
The incidents happened on Wednesday in the Short Strand area of east Belfast.
Paula McCartney said the crowd who confronted them as they handed out the leaflets "were screaming and shouting abuse and telling us to get out of the district".
She said it was a very threatening situation and that the family had made a complaint to the police.
Vigil
Sisters Paula, Gemma, Donna and Clare McCartney, along with Ms Hagans, were distributing leaflets seeking support for a vigil outside Magennis's bar in Belfast.
Paula said the crowd which gathered "tried to provoke us into physical confrontation but we did not rise to it".
"This was blatant discrimination, very loud and threatening and they were trying to blacken Robert's name," she said.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster on Thursday, Sinn Fein councillor Joe O'Donnell said he was aware "an altercation had taken place in the area while the McCartney family were distributing leaflets".
"I had been approached by some members of the family and asked to assist in helping them resolve the situation," Mr O'Donnell said.
"Subsequently other residents claimed they had been the victim of threats and abusive language by some members of the McCartney family."
Mr McCartney had been involved in a row in Magennis's bar on 30 January. He was later found seriously injured near the bar and died in hospital.
No-one has been charged in connection with the murder.
You both said it perfectly. But this was always going to happen. Sinn Fein/IRA cannot do this publicly so they get their apologists to harass the widow and sisters of a man not just murdered, but butchered like an animal by the IRA.
The irony is the family were previously Sinn Feinn voters and did not not complain when Protestants or Britons were similarly slaughtered by the IRA.
Watch the movie Michael Collins. There was once a good reason to fight.
But nations evolve. And that antipathy should have faded away. When you start targeting innocent people, there's a problem.
The strange thing is the Republic of Ireland doesn't want a united Ireland. It would change their whole political and economic system and it would probably lead to a civil war as bad as Yugoslavia.
But as Ireland was the only democracy to send commiserations to Germany on Hitler's death, who knows what they would do?
Well, they've been pissed ever since he left the Beatles.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
So has the IRA executed the thugs yet?
Or were they just sayin' that to get the heat off?
IRA terrorists would never lie, would they?
The sisters told the IRA they didn't want revenge, they wanted justice.
>>>Mr McCartney, 33, was stabbed after a row in a Belfast bar.<<<<<<
It was a little more than a simple stabbing.
When you pass out leaflets in an area where people butchered your brother you have to know you are in for some unpleasantries. One day these sisters will be murdered, they kept Sinn Fein out of the White House this year,they even made Fat Teddy afraid to meet with IRA gangsters they will pay for that some day.
"It was a little more than a simple stabbing."
Indeed, the article really downplayed the brutality of this guy's murder. Over some BS argument too.
To whom did they send their commiserations since Germany was nearly an occupied country by time the Hitler was dead? There wasn't a functioning government left to communicate with.
I used to support these scum. I feel terrible about it now.
It doesn't matter who he sent his condolences, the fact that De Valera did is a national disgrace.
If France sent condolences to Saddam on his son's death, even though there was no Iraqi government and Saddam was hiding down a hole, would you make excuses, or be rightly angry?
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story.asp?j=1727
Many Americans had/have a romantic notion of Ireland, you are not alone.
But these people have been murdering anyone that disagrees with them for years. In the 1970's a catholic woman from Northern Ireland called Jean McConville, who was a 37 year old mother, went to comfort a young British soldier who was dying on her doorstep. Now she was a good, decent woman who was comforting a young boy, far from home, who probably couldn't care less about Irish politics, and who was dying.
For her humanity she was taken by the IRA in front of her children and murdered. They even refused to tell where her body was so the family couldn't bury her.
They have always been savages.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3210967.stm
Are you talking about Ireland or Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and fought Hitler. The Irish Free State did not.
Apparently some Sinn Fein/IRA councillor said "the McCartneys are as much to blame" - more Moral Equivocation from the Morally Redundant
But nations evolve. And that antipathy should have faded away. When you start targeting innocent people, there's a problem.
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