Martin Mcguinnes dead
Discussion
This isn't the death of a terrorist turned humanitarian saint. He only went into politics in the first place because he knew the authorities were closing in on him. He was very clever, I'll give him that! How he wasn't assassinated well before now is the real question. Once a terrorist murderer, always a terrorist murderer in my humble opinion, and lest we forget, the likes of Mo Mowlam did as much for peace in N Ireland and didn't feel the need for murder and torture beforehand!
The beginning of this chapter starts thus: The 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash occurred on 2 June 1994 at about 18:00 hours when a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter (serial number ZD576, callsign F4J40) crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing all twenty-nine people on board (twenty-five passengers and four crew). Among the passengers were almost all the UK's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. An RAF inquiry in 1995 ruled that the cause was pilot error.
The snake-oil that calmed the troubled waters of NI was the prospect of ever-deepening integration of both the UK and the Rep. of Ireland within the EU - the point being that the relevance of national sovereignty was set to become of ever diminishing significance. In a fully realised EU it is the regions of the EU that are of relevance not the original forming member states. That realisation in combination with the elimination of the British government's senior brass in the fight (as above) and the political promotion of the former terrorist leadership provisioned the termination of violence.
With the UK set to exit the EU the promise of a North of Ireland EU region, independent of both The Republic and the United Kingdom, comes to an end too.
So one of the few who really understand this being Mcguinnes now dying from a rare heart condition may be helpful in 'the troubles' not making a reappearance.
The snake-oil that calmed the troubled waters of NI was the prospect of ever-deepening integration of both the UK and the Rep. of Ireland within the EU - the point being that the relevance of national sovereignty was set to become of ever diminishing significance. In a fully realised EU it is the regions of the EU that are of relevance not the original forming member states. That realisation in combination with the elimination of the British government's senior brass in the fight (as above) and the political promotion of the former terrorist leadership provisioned the termination of violence.
With the UK set to exit the EU the promise of a North of Ireland EU region, independent of both The Republic and the United Kingdom, comes to an end too.
So one of the few who really understand this being Mcguinnes now dying from a rare heart condition may be helpful in 'the troubles' not making a reappearance.
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