Post by Wasp on Dec 22, 2009 21:44:25 GMT
The IRA boasted about shooting child abusers. How very odd that they ignored the vile crimes of Gerry Adams' father and brother
Shed a tear for Gerry Adams MP, as he tours the TV studios trying to save his career and his reputation in the face of those 'with political axes to grind' who are determined to judge a good man harshly just because of family embarrassments.
Well, no. Please don't. This horrible man is now rightly on the rack because his niece Aine - who as a 13-year-old in 1987 told Uncle Gerry that his brother Liam had raped and abused her from the age of four - has very belatedly gone public on the allegations.
What's more, Uncle Gerry admits that he believed her all those years ago, which makes it inexplicable that Liam was later allowed to work for several years with the young in Adams's West Belfast fiefdom.
The IRA heartlands such as West Belfast are areas where Republicans proudly claim they look after their own community, and punish drug pushers and sex abusers - except, it now appears, where those criminals are related to the elite.
Yet Adams, who covered up the crime - thus almost colluding in it - is looking for sympathy. 'For me, it's like a permanent bereavement,' he says, with a sob in his voice. 'My focus is on the plight of Aine.'
Like hell it is. Gerry Adams's focus is where it always is: on the well-being of Gerry Adams, the murderous thugs he calls freedom fighters and on their pursuit of power at any cost.
To beef up his pleas for sympathy, Adams has revealed that he learned for the first time ten years ago that his father, Gerry Snr, had sexually, emotionally, psychologically and physically abused members of the family.
When his father died in 2003, Gerry Jnr now reveals he regretted that this convicted Republican terrorist - who has been referred to as 'the dirty wee man' and 'the babysitter' - had the Irish tricolour on his coffin: 'I think he besmirched it, but it was a dilemma for other members of my family who felt that they didn't want this, at that time, out in the open.'
This is a perfect example of Adams's perverted vision. He was upset to discover his father's dirty little secret, but he had no problems about giving Republican funerals to people who killed children with their bombs, knee-capped and tortured teenagers and left thousands of little ones traumatised by the killing or injuring of their parents or siblings.
I have always abhorred Adams, not just because I knew him to have been from the early 1970s a pitiless leader of the brutal IRA, but because he was additionally a smug, complacent, self-righteous liar and hypocrite who persuaded the gullible that he was a spiritually minded, caring, tree-hugging peacenik.
He even had the effrontery to deny in all three volumes of his autobiography that he had been even an ordinary member of the terrorist organisation of which he was kingpin.
Before the Sinn Fein publicity machine urges that everything I say should be discounted because I have a political axe to grind, let me mention that the last time I wrote a really horrid piece about a Northern Ireland politician was about that roaring bigot Ian Paisley, Adams's sworn enemy for more than 30 years.
But my anger about Paisley was nothing compared to the rage and nausea I feel about Adams. This is a man who, unbelievably, has agreed to make a forthcoming documentary for Channel 4 about his relationship with Jesus, yet stands revealed as someone who, rather than suffering the little children to come to him, abandoned them to an abuser.
According to Aine, the facts are that from 1978 her father regularly beat up her mother Sally badly enough to make her run from the house, thus giving him the opportunity to sexually assault his elder daughter. Like most abused children, at the time Aine told no one.
In 1983, Sally threw Liam out, made a bonfire of all his possessions and stopped him seeing his children.
As for Aine, she had some peace until at the end of 1985 when she discovered her father had a new wife and another little girl. Worries about how this child might be abused persuaded her to tell her own terrible story to her mother.
It was now 1987, and Sally took her to the police, the social services and all-powerful Uncle Gerry, who was told that a police medical examination had corroborated Aine's story.
Aine remembers her uncle being sympathetic and taking her and her mother to a pointless meeting at which her father denied everything. But she also remembers being persuaded not to proceed with the charges, although she never retracted her story.
At various times over the next few years, Uncle Gerry promised to persuade Liam to apologise and repent, but nothing happened and she stopped seeing Gerry Adams when he began to speak of Liam as a victim ('Our Liam can't deal with what he did to you.')
Living in Scotland, Aine did not know that her uncle allowed her father to work from 1998 to 2003 in a youth club right under his nose - something he could have stopped with one word in the local priest's ear - and later nearby as a youth development officer.
Aine decided a year ago that since her father had refused to admit what he'd done to her, she would finally pursue him through the courts.
A warrant has been out for his arrest for a year - Liam disappeared after refusing to attend a Belfast court hearing when charges were brought - and on Friday, Aine waived her right to anonymity by telling her story on television.
Gerry Adams has said that while he might not have followed absolutely the textbook approach to dealing with a paedophile, it is the fault of the police and the social services that his brother wasn't dealt with. For his part, he was trying to deal with family problems in a 'therapeutic way. . . there's only so much an individual can do - it's up to the agencies'.
Today, Adams's future as president and international ambassador for Sinn Fein is in serious doubt. The denizens of his constituency are well aware that the IRA knee-capped many a man for even minor sexual misdemeanours and would normally have murdered anyone alleged to have raped a child.
The timing of these increasingly sordid revelations could not be worse for Adams, for the Republic of Ireland is suffering its own collective trauma at revelations that, over many years, the Roman Catholic hierarchy covered up priestly abuse of children, with collusion from police, politicians and the establishment in general.
The mood is vengeful, with demands for episcopal heads to roll coming from all sections of society. Three weeks ago, in the Irish parliament, Sinn Fein's Human Rights spokesman denounced those who 'colluded in crime, in depraved sexual attacks, in an abuse of power and influence, they perverted the course of justice, they protected the guilty.
'They, the paedophile priests, the bishops, archbishops and police who protected them, I believe, and many others believe, are culpable in the deaths by suicide of many, many abused children or later adults whose lives were destroyed by the paedophiles and their protectors.'
He called for society 'to expose the wrong done to those children and ensure that every step is taken to pursue the perpetrators and those who failed or purposely refused to carry out their duties to protect children and to investigate and prosecute criminals.'
When will Sinn Fein apply these fine principles to its own President, Gerry Adams?
Shed a tear for Gerry Adams MP, as he tours the TV studios trying to save his career and his reputation in the face of those 'with political axes to grind' who are determined to judge a good man harshly just because of family embarrassments.
Well, no. Please don't. This horrible man is now rightly on the rack because his niece Aine - who as a 13-year-old in 1987 told Uncle Gerry that his brother Liam had raped and abused her from the age of four - has very belatedly gone public on the allegations.
What's more, Uncle Gerry admits that he believed her all those years ago, which makes it inexplicable that Liam was later allowed to work for several years with the young in Adams's West Belfast fiefdom.
The IRA heartlands such as West Belfast are areas where Republicans proudly claim they look after their own community, and punish drug pushers and sex abusers - except, it now appears, where those criminals are related to the elite.
Yet Adams, who covered up the crime - thus almost colluding in it - is looking for sympathy. 'For me, it's like a permanent bereavement,' he says, with a sob in his voice. 'My focus is on the plight of Aine.'
Like hell it is. Gerry Adams's focus is where it always is: on the well-being of Gerry Adams, the murderous thugs he calls freedom fighters and on their pursuit of power at any cost.
To beef up his pleas for sympathy, Adams has revealed that he learned for the first time ten years ago that his father, Gerry Snr, had sexually, emotionally, psychologically and physically abused members of the family.
When his father died in 2003, Gerry Jnr now reveals he regretted that this convicted Republican terrorist - who has been referred to as 'the dirty wee man' and 'the babysitter' - had the Irish tricolour on his coffin: 'I think he besmirched it, but it was a dilemma for other members of my family who felt that they didn't want this, at that time, out in the open.'
This is a perfect example of Adams's perverted vision. He was upset to discover his father's dirty little secret, but he had no problems about giving Republican funerals to people who killed children with their bombs, knee-capped and tortured teenagers and left thousands of little ones traumatised by the killing or injuring of their parents or siblings.
I have always abhorred Adams, not just because I knew him to have been from the early 1970s a pitiless leader of the brutal IRA, but because he was additionally a smug, complacent, self-righteous liar and hypocrite who persuaded the gullible that he was a spiritually minded, caring, tree-hugging peacenik.
He even had the effrontery to deny in all three volumes of his autobiography that he had been even an ordinary member of the terrorist organisation of which he was kingpin.
Before the Sinn Fein publicity machine urges that everything I say should be discounted because I have a political axe to grind, let me mention that the last time I wrote a really horrid piece about a Northern Ireland politician was about that roaring bigot Ian Paisley, Adams's sworn enemy for more than 30 years.
But my anger about Paisley was nothing compared to the rage and nausea I feel about Adams. This is a man who, unbelievably, has agreed to make a forthcoming documentary for Channel 4 about his relationship with Jesus, yet stands revealed as someone who, rather than suffering the little children to come to him, abandoned them to an abuser.
According to Aine, the facts are that from 1978 her father regularly beat up her mother Sally badly enough to make her run from the house, thus giving him the opportunity to sexually assault his elder daughter. Like most abused children, at the time Aine told no one.
In 1983, Sally threw Liam out, made a bonfire of all his possessions and stopped him seeing his children.
As for Aine, she had some peace until at the end of 1985 when she discovered her father had a new wife and another little girl. Worries about how this child might be abused persuaded her to tell her own terrible story to her mother.
It was now 1987, and Sally took her to the police, the social services and all-powerful Uncle Gerry, who was told that a police medical examination had corroborated Aine's story.
Aine remembers her uncle being sympathetic and taking her and her mother to a pointless meeting at which her father denied everything. But she also remembers being persuaded not to proceed with the charges, although she never retracted her story.
At various times over the next few years, Uncle Gerry promised to persuade Liam to apologise and repent, but nothing happened and she stopped seeing Gerry Adams when he began to speak of Liam as a victim ('Our Liam can't deal with what he did to you.')
Living in Scotland, Aine did not know that her uncle allowed her father to work from 1998 to 2003 in a youth club right under his nose - something he could have stopped with one word in the local priest's ear - and later nearby as a youth development officer.
Aine decided a year ago that since her father had refused to admit what he'd done to her, she would finally pursue him through the courts.
A warrant has been out for his arrest for a year - Liam disappeared after refusing to attend a Belfast court hearing when charges were brought - and on Friday, Aine waived her right to anonymity by telling her story on television.
Gerry Adams has said that while he might not have followed absolutely the textbook approach to dealing with a paedophile, it is the fault of the police and the social services that his brother wasn't dealt with. For his part, he was trying to deal with family problems in a 'therapeutic way. . . there's only so much an individual can do - it's up to the agencies'.
Today, Adams's future as president and international ambassador for Sinn Fein is in serious doubt. The denizens of his constituency are well aware that the IRA knee-capped many a man for even minor sexual misdemeanours and would normally have murdered anyone alleged to have raped a child.
The timing of these increasingly sordid revelations could not be worse for Adams, for the Republic of Ireland is suffering its own collective trauma at revelations that, over many years, the Roman Catholic hierarchy covered up priestly abuse of children, with collusion from police, politicians and the establishment in general.
The mood is vengeful, with demands for episcopal heads to roll coming from all sections of society. Three weeks ago, in the Irish parliament, Sinn Fein's Human Rights spokesman denounced those who 'colluded in crime, in depraved sexual attacks, in an abuse of power and influence, they perverted the course of justice, they protected the guilty.
'They, the paedophile priests, the bishops, archbishops and police who protected them, I believe, and many others believe, are culpable in the deaths by suicide of many, many abused children or later adults whose lives were destroyed by the paedophiles and their protectors.'
He called for society 'to expose the wrong done to those children and ensure that every step is taken to pursue the perpetrators and those who failed or purposely refused to carry out their duties to protect children and to investigate and prosecute criminals.'
When will Sinn Fein apply these fine principles to its own President, Gerry Adams?