Gerry Adams is a Knob, with a K,K,K!

I love you Tommy

Stobo would be am excuse if he drank, but he doesn’t…… I think. Maybe he’s at the gangee pipe

I think you will find your loyalist brethern are interchangeable with their white power buddies state side. When did you cease to be Irish?

In vino veritas Gerry.

I can just imagine our cuddly future never-be Taoiseach….
… scrumbled up on his couch in a big woolly jumper,
dog on his lap,
can of oranjeboom in one hand and
Party-paid iPhone in the other.

‘This’ll either be cool with the kids or insightful, my peeps will love me for being so hip, i must TWEET’ and he hit send, before another slug of the amber nectar.

Some light reading just to prove the horrible discrimination that occurred up until the late 70′s and beyond. Gerry Adams may be wrong about other things but he is spot on with regards to the discrimination, cruelty and oppression that occured towards Irish Catholics in the bigoted apartheid statlet of northern Ireland . Gerrymandering of elections Irish Catholics should have had control of about 40 per cent of the local councils but the ending of PR and the redrawing of local government endured a the Catholic population only controlled two of 82 councils. Two categories of voters were formed to ensure Protestant dominance at the polls: (1) the ‘ratepayers’, primary occupiers of a household as either tenants or owners, and (2) persons who owned commercial property valued at £10 or more per year. As only two people per house were allowed to vote, the ratepayer category effectively excluded lodgers or adult children living at home. Both lodgers and adult children living at home tended to be Catholics due to their lower overall economic status and larger families; thus, Catholic franchise was restricted. People in the second category, that is, owners of commercial property, were allowed to nominate special voters for each £10 of value of their property, up to a maximum of six voters. Since over 90 per cent of the commercial property in Northern Ireland at the time was Protestant owned, this provision expanded their voting franchise and, along with the ratepayer category, extended Unionist control over the ballot box and the government.  These types of discrimination were so blatant that the Cameron Commission investigation of 1968 issued a report critical of the local electoral system. The Commission reported that in Derry, while Catholics made up over 60 per cent of the electorate, due to the districting system, they won only 40 per cent of the County Borough seats This is only one example among many in which the gerrymandering of districts produced Unionist majorities on local councils in communities that were predominantly Catholic. Acts ostensibly aimed at increasing security but used to intimidate and discriminate against Catholics were utilised by the Unionist parliament at Stormont to ensure Protestant control of Northern Ireland. The most prominent of these was the Special Powers Act. Special Powers Act remained in force until 1973. Under the Act, security forces were given a considerable latitude in their conduct towards suspected individuals and broad powers of search and seizure. The Act permitted actions such as Internment without trial for unspecified periods of time, search and seizures without a warrant, and powers of censorship. One notorious feature of the Special Powers Act was its clause that “if any person does any act of such nature as to be prejudicial to the preservation of the peace or maintenance of order in Northern Ireland and not specifically provided for in the regulations, he shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against the regulations. Thus the security forces could detain the individual for an indefinite period of time without charges or a trial. This Special Powers Act was enforced by the (RUC), and its paramilitary reservists, the Special Constabulary. The RUC were required to carry arms and trained with heavy weapons in military tactics it was centrally controlled by their own Inspector. The number of Catholics never reached higher than 12 per cent. Numerous incidents of the RUC testify to the sectarian partisan policing that occurred. In addition Northern Ireland created the ‘B Specials’ that continued to operate until their notorious group was disbanded only in 1972. Membership in the B Specials ranged from a maximum of 25,000. The B Specials were usually several times larger in number than the police force and, given the task of combating potential subversion they were recruited as an exclusively Protestant paramilitary force. There were open ties between the B Specials the Orange Order and also with Protestant paramilitary terror forces such as the (UVF). Many members of the B Specials were also members in those illegal paramilitary groups, the units of the B Specials often used Orange Order lodges for training exercises and practice drills. Due to the large number of Protestant extremists in their ranks, the B Specials gained notoriety for their use of violence included beatings, harassment, and body searches of Catholics at checkpoints. Protestants who were merely waived through. The B Specials came to be universally loathed by the Catholic community as a tool of Protestant repression and intimidation as a result of these and other well-published incidents including many murders of Catholics.It has been well established that the police forces of Northern Ireland acted in collusion with Unionist political forces as an implement of oppression abd discrimination These reports, most of which were published in the 1960s (including the Report of the Cameron Commission, the Scarman and Hunt Reports, and investigations by James Callaghan and Max Hastings). Protestant control of the judicial system and the courts was also maintained by Unionist control of the government of Northern Ireland. Fifteen out of twenty-eight appointees to the high court of Northern Ireland between 1972 were either current or former members of the Unionist political party, strengthening the link between political control and judicial control Jury selection was also biased in favour of the Protestant community. Discrimination within the judicial system stemmed from the severity of charges lodged against defendants by the police system. For example, charges against Protestant defendants were often reduced or dropped, while Catholics were usually confronted with the full force of the law. In areas of employment, housing allocations, and educational revenues, where discrimination was the rule. Control of the national and most local governments also gave the Unionist majority the power to determine Protestant and Catholic share of public sector benefits. In Northern Ireland, the construction of public housing has been regulated by the Unionist-controlled parliament and local councils. The gerrymandering of districts effectively gave the Unionists control over the selection of LHA members. Generally, Unionist-controlled councils used their power to deny housing to Catholics. the councils effectively limited the number of Catholic ratepayers, ensuring Protestant electoral majorities. Unionist LHAs granting subsidised housing to bachelors or to married couples without children even though there were large, Catholic families who were desperately in need of housing In the County of Fermanagh, despite the fact that they constituted a majority of the population, Catholics were given very few of the 1500 units built. While Catholics made up about 40 per cent of manual labourers, they held only 11 per cent of senior positions in 1951. This figure shrank to 6 per cent by 1959, but began to rise subsequent to reforms which followed the outbreak of violence, reaching almost 15 per cent by 1973. The Cameron Commission thoroughly investigated Local Authority employment and found that Unionist councils had used their power to discriminate against Catholics in the hiring process. In addition to discrimination in hiring practices, several other factors including policies that affected the location of new industries through zoning and tax incentives and those that encouraged placement of industries in areas difficult. Discrimination was also sanctioned and promoted by officials. For example, Sir Basil Brooke, who served as Northern Ireland’s prime minister for twenty years, actively promoted a system of employment wherein jobs were offered through social organisations such as the Orange Order. Sir Brooke stated that: I recommend those people who are Loyalists not to employ Roman Catholics. In addition, trade unions often acted as employment representatives; thus, since the unions were sectarian in nature, Catholics were effectively banned from employment in many instances. When word spread among the Catholic community that a company would hire only Protestants, most often Catholics would simply stop applying.

@Supremo Do you really think people will read all that

My finger even got tired scrolling past it!

Discrimination, cruelty and oppression that occured towards Irish Catholics in the bigoted apartheid statlet of northern Ireland . Gerrymandering of elections Irish Catholics should have had control of about 40 per cent of the local councils but the ending of PR and the redrawing of local government ensured a the Catholic population only controlled two of 82 councils. 1.       Two categories of voters were formed to ensure Protestant dominance at the polls: (1) the ‘ratepayers’, primary occupiers of a household as either tenants or owners, and (2) persons who owned commercial property valued at £10 or more per year. As only two people per house were allowed to vote, the ratepayer category effectively excluded lodgers or adult children living at home. Both lodgers and adult children living at home tended to be Catholics due to their lower overall economic status and larger families; thus, Catholic franchise was restricted. People in the second category, that is, owners of commercial property, were allowed to nominate special voters for each £10 of value of their property, up to a maximum of six voters. Since over 90 per cent of the commercial property in Northern Ireland at the time was Protestant owned, this provision expanded their voting franchise and, along with the ratepayer category, extended Unionist control over the ballot box and the government.  2.       Commision reports that Unionist majorities on local councils in communities that were predominantly Catholic. Acts ostensibly aimed at increasing security but used to intimidate and discriminate against Catholics were utilised by the Unionist parliament at Stormont to ensure Protestant control of Northern Ireland. 3.       The most prominent of these was the Special Powers Act. Special Powers Act remained in force until 1973. Under the Act, security forces were given powers of search and seizure and Internment without trial for unspecified periods of time, without a warrant and censorship. 4.       This Special Powers Act was enforced by the (RUC), and its paramilitary reservists, the Special Constabulary. The RUC were required to carry arms and trained with heavy weapons in military tactics it was centrally controlled by their own Inspector. The number of Catholics never reached higher than 12 per cent. 5.       Numerous incidents of the RUC testify to the sectarian partisan policing that occurred. In addition Northern Ireland created the ‘B Specials’ that continued to operate until their notorious group was disbanded only in 1972. Membership in the B Specials ranged from a maximum of 25,000. The B Specials were usually several times larger in number than the police force and, given the task of combating potential subversion they were recruited as an exclusively Protestant paramilitary force. There were open ties between the B Specials the Orange Order and also with Protestant paramilitary terror forces such as the (UVF). Many members of the B Specials were also members in those illegal paramilitary groups, The units of the B Specials often used Orange Order lodges for training exercises and practice drills. Due to the large number of Protestant extremists in their ranks, the B Specials gained notoriety for their use of violence included beatings, harassment, and body searches of Catholics at checkpoints. Protestants who were merely waived through. 6.       The B Specials came to be universally loathed by the Catholic community as a tool of Protestant repression and intimidation as a result of these and other well-published incidents including many murders of Catholics. It has been well established that the police forces of Northern Ireland acted in collusion with Unionist political forces as an implement of oppression and discrimination These reports, most of which were published in the 1960s (including the Report of the Cameron Commission, the Scarman and Hunt Reports, and investigations by James Callaghan and Max Hastings). 7.       Protestant control of the judicial system and the courts was also maintained by Unionist control of the government of Northern Ireland. Fifteen out of twenty-eight appointees to the high court of Northern Ireland between 1972 were either current or former members of the Unionist political party, strengthening the link between political control and judicial control Jury selection was also biased in favour of the Protestant community. Discrimination within the judicial system stemmed from the severity of charges lodged against defendants by the police system. For example, charges against Protestant defendants were often reduced or dropped, while Catholics were usually confronted with the full force of the law. In areas of employment, housing allocations, and educational revenues, where discrimination was the rule. 8.       Control of the national and most local governments also gave the Unionist majority the power to determine Protestant and Catholic share of public sector benefits. In Northern Ireland, the construction of public housing has been regulated by the Unionist-controlled parliament and local councils. The gerrymandering of districts effectively gave the Unionists control over the selection of LHA members. Generally, Unionist-controlled councils used their power to deny housing to Catholics. the councils effectively limited the number of Catholic ratepayers, ensuring Protestant electoral majorities. Unionist LHAs granting subsidised housing to bachelors or to married couples without children even though there were large, Catholic families who were desperately in need of housing In the County of Fermanagh, despite the fact that they constituted a majority of the population, Catholics were given very few of the 1500 units built. 9.       While Catholics made up about 40 per cent of manual labourers, they held only 11 per cent of senior positions in 1951. This figure shrank to 6 per cent by 1959, but began to rise subsequent to reforms which followed the outbreak of violence, reaching almost 15 per cent by 1973. 10.    The Cameron Commission thoroughly investigated Local Authority employment and found that Unionist councils had used their power to discriminate against Catholics in the hiring process. In addition to discrimination in hiring practices, several other factors including policies that affected the location of new industries through zoning and tax incentives and those that encouraged placement of industries in areas difficult. Discrimination was also sanctioned and promoted by officials. For example 11.    Sir Basil Brooke, who served as Northern Ireland’s prime minister for twenty years, actively promoted a system of employment wherein jobs were offered through social organisations such as the Orange Order. Sir Brooke stated that: I recommend those people who are Loyalists not to employ Roman Catholics. In addition, trade unions often acted as employment representatives; thus, since the unions were sectarian in nature, Catholics were effectively banned from employment in many instances. When word spread among the Catholic community that a company would hire only Protestants, most often Catholics would simply stop applying

Ah I tired cutting it up but on the fly on a phone so it didn’t work out but you should glance read it it really shows how a they were treated disgracefully in their own land and how their oppressors trying to claim the moral high ground become they fought back for their Human and civil rights in their own land is so hypocritical and disgusting. The government of Ireland to its shame should never have allowed such things to happen to those who were equally referred to as Irish men, women and children in the 1916 proclamation.

@larry makes a change from having your finger lodged in your backside most of time.

.. And the mask slips ‘supremo’.

What mask ‘gabby’ I think historical facts are important.

you wouldn’t have to guess what political party was involved. Its good to laugh at numpties like supremo out defending racism. it truly is fantastic that the mask has being ripped off baron adams

For Jeez sake. Get a grip, mate. Yes there was widespread discrimination against Catholics; It was a disgrace. But many an innocent person paid the price of it with bombs and bullets. The blacks in America suffered much worse treatment yet had a real leader like Martin Luther King to walk the peaceful road in the quest for civil rights. Terrorism in the North has been a blight on society from whatever quarter. Thankfully we have moved on. But sadly, some choose to wallow in victimhood.

@Ted, ‘Walk the peaceful road’? Martin Luther King was shot dead, you fool.

Ignore the past and you are doomed to repeat it.

@Supremo, Think you deserve an award for the longest ever post on the Journal. Take a bow son!

What’s your point exactly ?

Shane; there is no greater stupidity than the refusal to learn.

Well said, M Bowe!

Gabby you obviously don’t follow Irish politics, Enda Kenny has form here!

So True, Tony. And the media were ordered – by Enda – to keep quiet about his denigration of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader in Africa – and it took three days for the story to emerge::

http://bit.ly/Racist_Enda

After all his extensive SF-funded booksigning tours in the US, you’d think he’d know better.

Really Andy? Ends who was in opposition at the time had that much sway over the media? Doubt it. Ends was shamed into an apology and the same should happen here. What Adams is saying in that statement is far from an apology.

@tony – forgot about that! – i don’t think its the same but it’s certainly in the same ball park. He should have resigned then no doubt.

@alphanautica – gotta hand it to you – quality comment. You’d miss old shinner o bot.

Another cringe bomb from Gerry.

Always makes me laugh when you have losers here who have achieved nothing in life and most likely never will calling men like Jerry Adams who has accomplished so much an idiot.

Enda likes to listen to LL Cool J in his spare time. Leo likes the Ruff Ryderz.

Gerry has yet to achieve his goal. His achievements to date include stopping a movement he himself organised.
That’s like congratulating a burglar for stopping robbing houses. It’s nice n all, but he didn’t need to start in the first place.

I listen to 50 cent & his songs have the n word in them. I don’t like the word but if black people can use it why not white people. Otherwise it’s reverse racism.

Well trisha essentially it’s because black people didn’t enslave white people and suppressed them for centuries. Sorry if it’s confusing for you.

Jerry adams, ironic, a self assessment, the whole shinner movement are a duplicitous organisation, the true irony is that they believe they are an ethical movement, what a shower of skangballs.

I have zero time for Adams and his deluded cult,but sew it into them at any opportunity is all very well, but even I knew what he meant, and it certainly wasn’t any disrespect to black People, probably an ill thought out analogy , but accurate none the same, so I’d pop a chill pill there now people, take a deep breath, they will give ye plenty to be sorry for , and sooner than ye think, there’s more to worry about these boys than political correctness.

N-word? Nationalist??

Irish Catholics in the North Eastern corner of the Island of Ireland up to two decades ago, mainly in Belfast and Derry were treated like a lesser species of humanity by the less educated sections of these communities. the protestants in these communities did not treat they’re Catholic brethren like the good book admonishes.
Gerry Adams allusion to the scandalous and inhuman treatment of African Americans during the Colonial Wars in North America, for which the British Imperialists were responsible as it was and still is, for so much more of the worlds troubles, was moot. But the man wont argue for the oppressed North or South now. He is working to a completely different agenda. Martin Guinness, and Gerry Adams are operating for American Illuminati elites who claim allegiances to Clann Na Gael in the USA. The copy right for the title Clann Na Gael is controlled by American and European business groups who are behind the vulture funds that have bought up enormous parcels of Irish land and property and are behind the impoverishment and homelessness of the Irish people. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are in place now as Vincent Brown said to continue on doing what Fianna Fail an Fine Gael have been doing since the foundation of the State. The Irish people need to keep a good weather eye on the Shinners.

Old gabby has an axe to grind and any excuse will do. A film about slavery and contemporaneous language used gives it authenticity. GA’s use of the word, in his comparison with the six counties, in that context is totally understandable.

OMG….is it ok because Enda said it……it’s not junior infants

The use of a word causes outrage yet actions are brushed over. It’s a mad world we live in

Nordy nationalists are the new blacks of lreland and BallyMurphians the new blacks of New Nordesia, so say it clear and say it loud……Browwwnie Booomeiyay……Browwwnie Booomeiyay!

Adams has always been th ‘N’ in the Ballymurphy woodpile….

Gabby, but black people, in Africa, did have a hand in making sure there was a ready supply of people to be transported as slaves.
Just as other black people are subjugating their own right now.
Selective amnesia or blind in one eye, Gabby?

all perfectibility illustrates how vile the shinners are, is racism now official SF/IRA policy?

281 red thumbs that’s alot

Gerry is spelled with g not a j and I’m a shimmer I’m no (skankball) I work hard for my family I don’t bother anyone and I love my country all 32 county’s of it

When John Lennon used “Woman is the nger of the World”. Did you all go out and smash his records and give out about him in the media? No. Get over yourselves. Those with any intelligence know the context and the meaning of what Adams was trying to say! Maybe Mr Adams is not as “word smart” as many on here try to be.The high horse righteous indignation on here is way OTT.

gerry is a racist though eoin. i am unaware of any country with 32 counties, the republic of ireland only has 26 counties

what would obama think of all this?

wasnt that idiot adams not recently saying SF wont sit at the back of the bus and then come out with this clanger? is the baron losing his marbles????

Ah, but warthog, none of them are at all offended. It’s just an opportunity to have a pop at Adams, nothing more.

The free state has 26 tommy. Ireland has 32 and always will.

the republic of ireland has 26 beautiful counties and that is more than enough :)

Doorhandler

At least it is not a real bomb this time

Diarmuid

I think you make be mixing up Gerry Adams with Jerry from Tom & Jerry. it is completely understandable how you could be mix these two up

John

Yeah. Completely understandable and totally justified. So why the fcuk is he now apologising?

Exactly Rashers, all making a mountain out of a mole hill. Some people just love drama, they need to get a life!!!

No enda is from h*’ll I think he must be english as far as his nose is up Cameron n Lizzys arse

if Grand Wizard Adams did nothing wrong why is he apologizing? really is a bad day for SF/KKK

Rashers…i have to agree….theres no offence.

Tommy why did enda apologise?

so its enda kennys fault that grand wizard adams is a racist? and you wonder why everyone ridicules you SF/KKK racists. always someone elses fault thats the SF/KKK way

I’ll have to click don’t notify me of followup comments via email. Just had to delete about 50 emails about comments from mostly poisonous brain dead idiots.

people should call their local SF/KKK member to voice their objection to such disgusting comments

Tommy just to be clear. Are you calling me a racist and a member of SF. and the KKK. be very careful with your answer now.

‘poisonous brain dead idiots’ your right diarmuid that would be a perfect way to describe SF/KKK

Here we go again . Stop being offended for other people. Black people helped enslave black people. white people ran concentration camps that systematically killed other white people and black people. The Egyptians enslaved Europeans and middle Eastern peolple. No group of people have a monopoly on words or being arseholes. people have consistently been horrible to other people down through the ages and banning a word doesn’t change behavior. They will find new words to offend or hurt people.

Very authentic frontier gibberish..

#rhetoric!

So that makes ok then? Are you for real?

Dane

Spot on Rashers

northern ireland is a failed state. The only industries are smuggling and petrol laundering. The only things they manufacturer are iras official provisional real new continuity

so the brits caused the American civil war nathew

Get your point, but I think you need to do a little research on the history of human slavery before throw a line like that that out. Who had slave cultures? Where in the world it went on? Where and when it ceased as a practice. All races practiced and also suffered from slavery and its cruelties at some point. The racism thing is another matter and needs to be squashed, but as for slavery, get the f**k over it.

is baron adams going to attend any classes/ courses to deal with his racism?

Are you of of those camp site Nig gers Tommy?

Through the influence of European slave masters. If white Europeans never went to Africa in the first place under the deceit and false impression of religion and education slavery won’t have occurred in Africa. It was the same greed that is eating up the European economy today that instigated slavery. You were humans like Africans but were perhaps too lazy to build your own foundations and required black people to do it for you. The epic theory of blacks helping to sell blacks is not an excuse for slavery. Blacks did not help to sell blacks but those blacks who aided and abetted slavery did so under duress and influence of the greedy and desperate European slave traders. 9 out of 10 white people has the tendency to be like Jerry Adams but this racial attitude has been suppressed due to legal, moral and social enforcement and condemnation framework put in place to combat racism. He is now facing such moral and social condemnation in this blog.

Of course Gerry is not a racist.

But a man in his position should know better.

William if you’d bother to listen to those hip hop songs you consider “awful” you would find the most used term in such songs for white people ie actually the word “white”, shock horror they don’t say cracker much at all.

I’m a cracker and proud.

Gerry should know better.

N0 2 I think I’ll pass on the hip hop stuff all them rappers sound the exact same to me, nobody bats an eyelid with saying white male/female so why would there be a problem saying black male/female?.

There is no problem with saying the word black or the word white. Gerry said the word N***** incase you didn’t notice.

“If you’d bother to listen to those hip hop songs”. The younger generation.

Chap calls hip hop awful then proves he never bothers to listen to it. If that logic makes sense to you then you sir need your head examined. They also rarely if ever use racist terms in hip hop. And usually when they do its highlighting racial segregation

By the way, you’re both confusing hip hop and rap. They are not one and the same.

I know and I’m only referring to hip hop which is what he referenced

Yeah I noticed N0 2 the “N” world is often used in casual conversation many who use it wouldn’t be one bit racist its often said without thinking, not to mention the liberal use of the “N” word in many of those hip hop songs, so why should we get all holier than thou when blacks themselves use it sarcastically as a tool to beat the white man?.

Neal seems hip hop and rap are pretty much joined at the hip, might have subtle differences either way I can’t stand it, everyone to themselves give me 80′s alternative anyday of the week!.

“Historically, Hip Hop comprises 4 elements, 1 of which is rap, as outlined by DJ Afrikaa Bambaataa. The four elements of Hip Hop are DJing, MCing (a.k.a. rapping), B-Boying (a.k.a. breakdancing) and graffiti writing.”

Nothing is black or white with Adams, you should know that by now.

Oh we are allowed to address that as long as we ready to be abused. It is something I consider to be one of the worst forms of racism when a group of people use a word to describe one another that they will not tolerate anyone else using. Get a grip people it is just a word that your skin colour dictates whether you can use or not.

And you forgot David, he was never in the IRA..

You are about to get an unwanted, washed up, racist joke teller leader soon , pot and kettle lads pot and kettle.

Gerry will never be leader…..

The journal likes to regurgitate mail story’s but seems to have missed this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3568590/Hundreds-wishers-help-donate-2-000-white-waitress-refused-tip-racist-Oxford-student-bragged-online.html

its not news to anyone that SF are racist

Gerry Adams needs to resign immediately

he needs to be arrested and dragged before a judge for that disgusting slur

And Gerry wonders why he has trouble getting to see Obama.

Obama should be asked if what Grand Wizard Adams said was racist or not

Rsa adi

Useful bit of publicity after FF and FG dominance recently !

Not a racist bone in his body he says, he just doesn’t like Brits.

Gerry ‘King of the Travellers’ Adams, was no doubt watching the film and recalling fondly all of the atrocities, punishment beatings, torture and unspeakable crimes he himself was involved in. had a few drinks too many, and blurted out something stupid.

Gerry Mandela. The black IRA human rights leader.

Denial again Adams

Could have been a lot worse, he could have made a comparison to Luas Drivers which would be really derogatory to anyone.

you can never forgive racism. SF/IRA are a disgrace

Hardly compares to the Blueshirts and Fine Gael Minister Oliver J Flanagan calling for the ‘Jews to be routed from Ireland’.

Coles do the shinners supports still no shout ‘brits out’ same thing, racism is part of Shinner DNA