Sinn Fein must pay for heist 'sin', says Paisley

[emad]

Times
By David Lister

IAN PAISLEY said yesterday that Sinn Fein had committed a sin through the IRA’s alleged involvement in the £26.5 million robbery from the Northern Bank in Belfast and urged the Government to punish republicans.

Speaking after a meeting with Tony Blair, Mr Paisley gave a blunt assessment of the chances of a deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland. He said: “I think there have to be penalties. I resent the fact that at the moment it is held over the heads of people that are trying to carry out democratic politics. They are going to suffer rather than the people who actually committed the sin.”

Paul Murphy, the Northern Ireland Secretary, told the Commons that the IRA’s alleged role in last month’s bank heist, the biggest cash robbery in Britain, was “deeply damaging” to the peace process.

Mitchel McLaughlin, Sinn Fein’s chairman, said that the party would not “take lectures from any British government on criminality.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-1436278,00.html

[punpirate]

1. Must be taking lessons from the US...

... since there's no actual evidence that the IRA was involved yet, from what I've heard so far.

[MaineDem]

2. The REVEREND Mr Paisley...

should know that it's not for him to judge. Gee, guilty from the beginning, eh?

Paisley is an arse!

[jmcgowanjm]

3. And the Hand of God is....Blair?

Sir, urgent message from HQ.

Read it to me soldier.

Sir, reinforcements for your position
will not be forthcoming stop you are on your own
stop best of luck to you stop god bless the queen
stop