Rumours, bargains & lies.

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The DUP believe there will be a deal as a result of the Haass talks before Christmas. One of the things that may be in the document is a limited form of anonymity for those who tell what part they played in ‘conflict’.

No harm but if it was me I wouldn't be telling anybody anything. The way it’s supposed to work is if you tell the role you played then what you say can’t be used to incriminate yourself, but if the cops get evidence from some other source then they can prosecute. What utter balls!

However instead of quite a number of our political leaders maintaining their roles as armchair generals or lying their balls off that they were never members of an organisation (hands up Gerry Adams) maybe they should lead by example.

But here’s a thing McGuinness says he left the Provos in 1974, so what happens if someone says in 1976, 77 or 85 Martin McGuinness gave him an order to do something. Will McGuinness be subject to a police investigation? Will McGuinness denounce this as lies, or will he be caught lying, or indeed will the $hinners be looking to vet peoples testimony in advance of any submission? What happens if someone says he/she took direct orders from Adams, wouldn't be the first time would it?

Another major issue is ‘Flegs’  the flying of  ‘flegs’ on public buildings or indeed  on public authority land, as with the council depot in Belfast.

So here’s some food for thought, every Easter the $hinners have cemeteries across Northern Iron awash with flegs will they now be applying for licences for each fleg they wish to display? After all these are public places, are they not?

 Will $inn £ein call for the prosecution of someone who wants to fly the 'fleg' of their ‘country’,  or indeed the ‘fleg’ of a member state of the European Union? 

Will $inn £ein be doing similar to what Paisley did in 1964 by demanding the removal of the Irish Tricolour from the window of a Republican Party office in West Belfast?

I wonder how the DUP & $inn £ein sell this  to their grass roots? Will the $hinners say this is another stepping stone to the Republic? The truth is that outside of the DUP & $inn £ein the involvement of the rest of the parties in this process is nothing more than tokenism. And if anyone dares to breathe in the wrong direction they can be assured that these two oligarchs will be quite happy to trot out the John O'Dowd response to disagreement. 'SO WHAT'.

But that's democracy in Northern Iron for you.