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An Apology to Senator Terry Layden F.F.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday April 10, 2003 08:04author by James McKennaauthor email jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Tarred with wrong brush!

Senator Terry Layden Fianna Fail yesterday called for the Government to send a mission to Palestine to see at first hand what is going on there. This is a very brave stance considereing recent FF Central Command orders for total obedience to the "Regime".


I fully support actions and pickets on government offices and ministers who are complicit in the ongoing illegal invasion of Iraq but a mistake was made in daubing paint on Sentor Layden.

No malice or personal insult was intended against Senator Layden but nonetheless he should not as a man of courage and foresight have been daubed with red paint. It is vital not to lose sight of the Real Villians.

Senator Layden faced the crowd outside Dail Eireann that day when the real villians ran for safety, escorted by Gardai. He tried to talk and when daubed he did not press charges or even make any angry statements.

I think it would be nice if people wrote to Mr Layden to express their support for him and to express our sorrow that he was targeted.

I have no connection with Fianna Fail or Mr Layden .

Related Link: http://www.geocities.com/leydenterry/my_political_cv.htm
author by Ruairipublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

[email protected] for Terry L. + others via http://www.rte.ie/news/oireachtas/index.html

author by Joepublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:48author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is a pretty long record of FFers being 'radical' abroad but conservative at home. If he voted for refuelling he deserved the paint and as far as I'm aware all the FF crew voted for it.

Related Link: http://struggle.ws/wsm/shannon.html
author by ipsiphipublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

has been tarred with the wrong brush
daubed in red green black or white.
many more have been arrested, manhandled, given a wallop, ignored, marginalised or teargassed, beaten, CSC gassed, baton charged, plastic bulleted, rubber bulleted, mace sprayed, water cannoned.

I like to see representatives represent their people. Good Luck to this Senator in Palestine....was he elected or appointed?....nice he didn't press charges.
as for apologies?
where does he stand on the vital issues?
in the 21st century one thinks maybe our representatives "elected" not "appointed" will get used to such interventions.
Paint never harmed anyone.

author by dulux satin finishpublication date Thu Apr 10, 2003 19:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Not necessarily true ......
In 1999, after he sided with Nato's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, Mr Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister, suffered a burst eardrum when an enraged fellow-Green hurled a paint bomb at him.

 
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