The recent comments by Ian Paisley Jnr concerning his view that republican 'dissidents' should be shot on sight represents the Unionist equivalent of Provisional Sinn Féin's recent calls for informers to be activated against same. In tandem with recent activity by MI5 to recruit agents against Irish republicans, and the continuing policy of Internment by remand, it seems a worrying and familiar pattern is re-emerging.

A systematic campaign of repression is quickly manifesting itself as the official political response from the teetering Stormont regime to republican separatist activity. No doubt as the crisis deepens within Stormont, so too will the oppression escalate.

Since its inception after the Good Friday Agreement the current partitionist regime has maintained itself on one illusion after another but republican activity has exposed the flaws upon which they were built. Slowly but surely the edifice at Stormont is crumbling under the weight of its inherent contradictions and anti-democratic premise.

Republicans had warned of this from the beginning; that, unless the issue of the violation of Irish sovereignty was dealt with as the core cause of the conflict, the conflict would continue. Ian Paisley Jnr knows this hence his call for the truth to be shot on sight.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement urges all republican separatists to remain steadfast in their analysis, to remain steadfast in their activity and to remain vigilant for the onslaught which will surely come from the failing.

Andy Martin

32 County

Sovereignty Movement