Action in South Atlantic provides ammunition
to counter
anti-republican propaganda
Glaring examples of hypocrisy from church and political leaders
and newspapers over British violence in the South Atlantic
continue to provide valuable ammunition in defence of the IRA's
use of force in the North which republicans should be exploiting
to the full.
In the last week the IRA have carried out a number of attacks on
crown forces in the occupied six counties which left one British
soldier and an RUC man dead and an RUC woman seriously injured.
The RUC casualties were inflicted in Derry last Tuesday, and it
was there at the weekend that a group of Catholic priests - in
response to an earlier successful IRA operation which left a UDR
lieutenant dead - issued a statement condemning the operation as
``murder ... a vicious act''.
This is what is supposed to be called `leadership' and `moral
direction'. It is, of course, all one-sided and totally
pro-British.
In last weekend's editions of the Universe and Catholic Herald
Cardinal Basil Hume, Catholic primate of England, had no such
qualms about the use of violence by Britain, just as last year he
sided with Thatcher whilst she murdered the hunger-strikers. In
an interview Hume claimed that Britain had a moral right to use
military force to regain `the Falklands'. Sinn Féin in a
statement called upon Cardinal O Fiaich to dissociate himself
from Hume's violent comments ``or else explain to the perplexed
nationalist community in the North why it is morally right for
Britain to use force against `invaders' but not for Irish
republicans.''
Phoblacht 6 May 1982
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