it's about perception really
it's what people believe and not what is the real truth
and therefore since people write the history
what the believe to be true becomes true
if you get what i mean...
ok you don't but thats beaciae i didn't explain.
a couple of weeks ago unionists ran amok in the north acting like big eegits
today the IRA announced that they broke all their weapons
(i know that i said they should give them to less fortunate terrorists but thsy didn't listen)
to unrelated acts
but history won't see that
they will write
amid rising unionist antagonism and a resurrection of violence on the streets of violence the IRA laid down their arms and
chose a peacefull future
you see perception
who looks like the bad guys now?
*i'd just like to say i'm no expert on this topic and to my mind anybody that acts like an eegit is an eegit
and if you act like a scumbag you're a scumbag i dont care about your 'cause'
so don't start picking it's just my opinion
2 comments:
I disagree, I don't anyone who would take the perception that the IRA took the moral high ground.
Yes everything is perception at the end of the day, how you interpret something, how you understand it, but that hasn't stopped a public opinion forming on many topics since the beginning of time. If something has a logically evidental backing then it can be true, simple as that.
If anyone was in O'Connell st, on saturday, you would have seen Sinn Fein's 100th aniversary and the Make Partition history March, Sinn fein is marketed by the moderate figures of Gerry Adams, and Mary Lou McDonald. Mary was up on stage, campaigning for a united Ireland, while 50ms away sinn fein demonstrators and their small children were holding replicia machine guns. Yes they are entitled to campaign for their goal but at what means? and with what viable solution?
Perception is key.
I actually do think they took the high moral ground.
Yes, we're all inclined to be cynical about their actions, and with good cause.
But it was a historic moment. It took a lot to change enough people's opinions to make it happen. There has been such an entrenched ideology about the armed struggle for so many years, that the decision to lay down arms once and for all shouldn't be treated with quite the amount of cynicism there was.
Also, Kev the two are never unrelated. It is a big deal for one "side" to decommission, while elements of the other are still killing. It takes guts. Not from Gerry Adams, or Mary Lou. But from those who are genuinely fearful of loyalist actions, those who have learned hard lessons over the previous decades, and have learned not to trust the police or the institutions of state.
Changing that doesn't happen easily. The attempt to do so is something to be applauded.
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