Posted on 03/20/2006 10:43:15 PM PST by Panerai
DUBLIN, Ireland --Sinn Fein accused the Bush administration Monday of needlessly harassing officials of the IRA-linked party at airports in the United States, where party leader Gerry Adams was detained last week because he is on the U.S. "watch list."
Adams and his longtime aide, Richard McAuley, were delayed Friday from traveling to Buffalo, N.Y., for a meeting just hours after both Sinn Fein officials were guests of President Bush in the White House for St. Patrick's Day. They missed the flight -- and still were missing two suitcases when they returned Monday to Ireland.
"This is a nonsensical position we've found ourselves in, and we're determined for it to stop," McAuley said in a telephone interview from a car carrying him and Adams back to Belfast. "In one moment we're in the White House and Gerry is having his photo taken with the president, ... then a few hours later at the airport, you're being pulled aside for this rigorous, ridiculous special screening."
McAuley conceded that both he and Adams had convictions for Irish Republican Army-related activities in the early 1970s -- Adams for an attempted prison breakout, he for possessing a rifle. Adams left prison in 1977, McAuley two years later.
Because of the convictions, Adams and McAuley require special waivers from the Bush administration. The convictions could be why the two are regularly pulled aside at U.S. airports when Homeland Security officials check their computer records.
"Nothing that happened 30 years ago can justify the treatment of Adams today," McAuley said.
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"Nothing that happened 30 years ago can justify the treatment of Adams today," McAuley said.
Yes, of course it can. Depends on what it was, and in Gerry Adams's case, it was Fenian terrorism. That terror organization is run right now by Gerry Adams and his politburo, and it remains an armed, terroristic force-in-being today.
So cry me a river, guys, about your tough cookies trying to travel in America and raise more money off my relatives -- and I'm a sixth-generation Irishman myself, so I've got plenty of room to talk.
My spelling of this is no doubt wrong, but nevertheless I say to Sinn Fein, "Pogh ma thionne"!
As am I, and I agree with you. These guys always scrounging around on St. Paddy's day.
Adams is a Marxist thug and terrorist. Nice to see Bush "86" him out of Washington...The folks in Ireland, both North and South, along with the Bush administration, know the game Adams is playing. Too bad the fake Paddys in N.Y. and Mass., along with a few in Chicago aren't wise to this chancer. The Clinton's support of this puke cost many an Irishman, Catholic and Protestant, their lives....
McAuley should remind himself that we vividly remember Sien Finn hiring out their snipers to the Islamofacists recently. Who do you suppose the targets were for this little bit of "service to a worthy cause"?
Maybe we should bag McAuley in the middle of a night and fly him off to a country that believes in torture?
Meantime,maybe someone should nudge him and remind him we don't take orders from sub-humans...
or the Irish, for that matter.
I keep seeing this phrase in news accounts. Are they trying to tell us something about this "couple"?
Oh, really? I hadn't heard that one, do tell.
If they don't knock it off, we'll send Jack Ryan to shake them out.
Adams was playing footsie with Anti-American types in South America last year.
SCREW the IRA!
Must?
I think not.
Gerry Adams should have been whisked off to Gitmo and held until the IRA coughed up the killers of Belfast murder victim Robert McCartney. And that's just for starters. We might have given a nod to the long-standing ties between the US and Ireland by replacing Gerry's Froot Loops with Lucky Charms. Otherwise let the terrorist rot with the rest.
I keep seeing this phrase in news accounts. Are they trying to tell us something about this "couple"?
Reminds me of a joke I once heard about two gay Irishmen, Gerald Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzgerald.
Sinn Fein can go to hXXX--and take Gerry with them. They'll all be there sooner or later anyway.
Gerry Adams, I have a better idea, which don't you curl up and die, you evil POS!!
Typos again, I_T...
which = why
Adams may be Marxist thug and terrorist, but it was President Bush that Invited Adams to the White House.
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