Shed No Tears for This Roaring Bigot. He Did What He Did for Ian Paisley -- Not for Peace

Daily MailOctober 03, 2008

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EVEN by the standards of politicians, there has been an unusually widespread outbreak of hypocrisy following the announcement that Ian Paisley intends to resign after a year as First Minister of Northern Ireland.

As political leaders in Britain and Ireland fell over each other in their anxiety to praise this great peacemaker, they sounded like abused wives piteously thanking their brutal husbands for having finally put away the stick.

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Shed No Tears for This Roaring Bigot. He Did What He Did for Ian Paisley -- Not for Peace

What made it more piquant was that among the laudatory chorus were Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, two brutal former terrorists, who also saw the light rather late in the day.

But then the IRA have much in common with 81-year-old Paisley. Together, they bear much of the responsibility for turning a prosperous little province with solu...

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