RESPONSE TO “NORTHERN IRELAND AND ITS FRAGILE PEACE”
Posted by Jim on April 13, 2015
RESPONSE TO “NORTHERN IRELAND AND ITS FRAGILE PEACE”
April 9, 2015
Letters Editor
NEW YORK TIMES
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New York, New York 10018
Dear Editor:
Katrin Bennhold deserves a “well done” for her Letter from Europe report “Northern Ireland and its Fragile Peace“(4/7). She notes the quandary of securing peace without justice. British tactics of legal gymnastics, Parliamentary obstruction, destruction of evidence, refusal to produce files and assassinations have pretty much ruled out justice for nearly 1000 innocent Catholics. But her succinct 700 word article reveals the stumbling block that must be overcome. A former Co-Chairman of the N. I. Policing Board pointed out that “..the State and the British played such a violent and vicious part in it they can’t afford to be honest about it.” “The further a society drifts from the truth”, noted British author George Orwell, “the more it will hate those that speak it.” That. too, is part of the British plan!
Sincerely,
Michael John Cummings