Reaons to hate Sinn Fein- add your reasons

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday August 09, 2002 15:59 by SF hater

Over the past few days there have been more and more postings on Indymedia from Sinn Féin. What do you think of Sinn Féin? do they have any role in the workers' movement?

Reasons why I hate Sinn Féin.

1. their abuse of the Irish language
2. false image of being left wing
3. corporate donations from the USA
4. they are the richest party in Britain and Ireland
5. their need to take ownership and control of Communities
6. simplistic analysis: everything based on national question
7. Candidates get a 'clothing allowance'
8. Pro-privatisation in the North, not in the South
9. Pro-bin charges in Sligo, but not in Dublin.
10. everything they do is calculated for electoral gain
11. If Sinn Féin isnt the IRA why do they keep defending and speaking for them?
12. murals
13. painting curbs green, white and orange.
14. Orga Shinn Féin's logo is a petrol bomb
15. their use of images of James Connolly, Che Geuvara and other Marxists.
16. Personality cult around Gerry Adams
17. they have even sold out on their own ideology (Remember 'No Return to Stormont')
18. the belief that sectarian attacks are only done by loyalists
19. 10 years ago Sean Crowe and most of their TDs were street urchins and thugs, now they wear suits.
20. belief that individual terrorism works.