How timely of the SAS/MRF etc etc to be reintroduced to our drama as we approach the tenth anniversary of the murder by those same forces of civil rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson.
The Brehon Law Society will hold ceremonies across the US next week to match similar event in Ireland and London to mourn Rosemary's passing and to call on those who plotted her murder and oversaw its execution through their hapless agents to come clean.
This is the statement that will be read out at those ceremonies:
We mourn again on this day our murdered colleague, Rosemary Nelson. It has been ten years since this courageous woman paid the ultimate price for her efforts to defend her clients, and more significantly, to infuse justice into the rule of law in her community.
We know now so much better than we realized before her death the
enormity of the challenges she faced, and the dogged courage with which she faced those challenges. Courageous defense counsel insure the integrity and vitality of any system of justice, without which neither peace nor progress can be achieved.
Some, inspired by her sacrifice, have pursued the same ideals. Because of their efforts, we are gaining awareness of the extent of the collusion between those appointed to safeguard citizens and those given license to murder citizens.
Rosemary witnessed the perversion of justice by those charged with its enforcement. She became a victim of men who chose to make no distinction between defense counsel and persons in need of representation.
Rosemary Nelson confronted the corruption that she encountered. Her example continues to inspire us. Let us construct in Rosemary's memory a most fitting memorial; namely, forging real reform in policing and the administration of the law so that counsel shall never again lose their lives in Northern Ireland for simply doing what any just society demands of them.
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Martin McGuinness said something to the effect that he no longer had confidence in the head of the PSNI.
This is really a sop.
We have lost confidence in Mr. McGuinness.
This whole SAS affair would make Rosemary Nelson turn in her grave.
It is most unfortunate that some political leaders failed to display Rosemary's valiant courage.
Some political leaders have forgotten what courage really is.
Apparently, there is is no one of Rosemary's stature or integrity left in the political circles.
Corruption have replaced honor.
It is time to start anew and build based on a foundation of honor, courage, truth, and integrity.
Perhaps we can still make Rosemary proud of us.
When Internment was introduced we all had an inkling something might happen. History repeats itself, and we knew that well. And at the time no one was in govenment. We were the hated enemy of the state.
Now in 2009, we have people at the very head of government, and yet the SAS was able to return to the North under cover of darkness?
We can safely assume the SAS came with their sophisticated weaponry for murdering innocents.
And our people at the head of government in Stormont and our MPs in Westminster are all playing deaf and dumb like this was a bolt of lightning out of nowhere? This is beyond incredulous.
Rosemary Nelson would not buy this story line from the RUC nor British Army and neither should we.
Effectively, we are being told that nothing has changed since Internment. That well may be the case.
If you are in government and do not know what is going on, then it becomes a farce and a charade or worse. I suspect it is worse.
Rosemary Nelson would have been concerned with the "transparency" issue here. Who is working for who?
There are obviously a number of well-placed informers in play here. Whether their minders are the PSNI, MI5, or any of the other intelligence agencies, it is all the same.
Till the republican movement demands and gets transparency, their wheels will continue to spin in the wind. No real progress is possible. The SAS just proved that.
Tá fearg agus samhnas ar dhaoine faoi fhilleadh an SAS! In áit gerán a dhéanamh sna meáin nár cheart do cheannairí Shinn Féin an rud onórach a dhéanamh agus imeacht ó bhord an PSNI? An bhfuil onóir ar bith fágtha? Cá bhfuil ár gceannairí anois??
Masserene and it all starts again. If Sinn Fein with their huge electoral mandate within he Nationalist community cannot control these murder gangs... who will?
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