It’s many years since Fergal Keane demanded for the North of Ireland A TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION on South African lines, in an article in THE INDEPENDENT of London. Has he lost his alleged appetite for truth?
I commented on his article in The Irish World, and the Irish Democrat, and included those comments in at least three critiques of his life’s works on this site. Try as I might I have never been able to reconcile anything he has written about Ireland, with what I know and with what I believe to be the truth.
It’s quite clear that the British Government, British Generals and many ex-soldiers have as great an aversion to investigation of their actions as the Devil has to Holy Water.
It’s clear that deliberate attempts to intimidate any judges who might have more integrity than the late Lords Hailsham, Denning, Widgery, and Lane were made as ex-Marines (or serving ones?) wearing Green Berets and Regimental Blazers, gathered in London’s Strand when one of their homicidal friends was appealing a murder conviction.
When Tony Blair first received Gerry Adams in Downing Street, be-blazered and red- beret wearing toughs gathered in Whitehall to protest.
So far as I know, nobody in the media remarked that Britain was supposedly possessed of impartial judges, armed services regulated by Queen’s Regulations, and subject to Government control, and that Magna Carta and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights had not been openly repudiated, as yet.
As Britain’s most garlanded media star, and Britain’s greatest living spin-doctor, perhaps Fergal Keane will repeat his advocacy of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
And we’ll all raise our umbrellas as Pigs take Flight.
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