No One’s Asking What Really Happened?

[two gun sid]

From dannymorrison.ie:
Who’s next, has been the line adopted by gloating republican critics in the media and by Sinn Fein’s political opponents. As I look among them I’m thinking, well, that one’s probably in the Brits, that one is definitely a mouthpiece for the Brits, and that smartass former activist over there is probably an agent or a lunatic, given that his sole objective in life is to publicly undermine the republican struggle whereas Denis Donaldson’s objective was to do the same thing covertly.

I jest, of course. But wouldn’t I be justified in thinking that way? I mean, are agents only inside Sinn Fein or the IRA? I think not.

There is an old saying that all’s fair in love and war. However, the latter part of that proverb applies only to the extraordinary circumstances of war and conflict. In peacetime different standards are meant to apply. The open palm of a handshake is meant to show that you have no concealed weapon.

From around about 1992 I was of the private view that the republican leadership should consider a ceasefire but I was in jail and had no idea how the debate could begin (without debilitating the armed struggle) and how the transition could be smoothly made given how badly ceasefires had turned out in the past.

http://dannymorrison.ie/articles/what-really-happened.php