A chilling glimpse into republican indifference to the law

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

Paul Williams Email

November 13 2014 12:58 AM

THIS child sex abuse scandal has inadvertently given the public a rare, if fleeting, glimpse of the chilling truth which lies at the heart of the republican movement - they consider themselves above the law.

Gerry Adams and others within Sinn Fein wrap themselves in the cloak of obfuscation and keep their real persona tightly secured behind a wall of silence - for fear that if it were unleashed it would scare the life out of the impressionable electorate.

The Dail debate yesterday illustrated the reality that Sinn Fein's self-appointed moral watchdogs really have scant respect for the rule of law or the human rights of crime victims, anywhere on this island.

Since 2011 they have presided on the highest peak of the high moral ground, churning out populist empty rhetoric to a disillusioned electorate, while ignoring their own hypocrisy.

Sinn Fein have enjoyed a measure of success because - behind the facade - their fanatical core belief is that they alone are the righteous rulers of the island of Ireland.

Micheal Martin's account to the Dail of what allegedly happened abuse victim 'John' in 2002 confirms this theory.

This man and his brother were both sexually abused and raped by an IRA 'volunteer' who was hiding in their home in Co Louth - the Irish Republic - in the early 1990s.

After their father contacted the local Sinn Fein representative Pearse McGeough in 2002 the Provisionals again began sinister internal investigation procedures.

It is not surprising that, according to John, the chairman of this unlawful, unqualified tribunal was Padraic Wilson, the same senior Provo who presided over Mairia Cahill's kangaroo court.

Mary Lou McDonald and the rest of the republican movement have spun propaganda that they were forced to run such courts because there was no trust in the RUC in the North.

But John's case suggests perversion of the course of justice in the Irish Republic in 2002 - which was several years after the Good Friday Agreement.

The current scandal, like so many in the past, is unlikely to force Gerry Adams to resign because he is not like Enda Kenny or Michael Martin or Joan Burton.

He is the leader, the fuhrer, of a cult-like organisation.

And everyone should also remember how Gerry's acolytes sniggered with mirth when he made a thinly-veiled threat about holding the editors in the Irish Independent group at gunpoint.

Every time some aspect of the appalling crimes of the republican movement leaks out, the Shinners successfully push them back under the carpet by shouting down their detractors.

If the Irish public put them into government at the next election, imagine how they will put down dissension and opposition.

This sorry saga is only a foretaste of what is yet to come.