Gerry Adams' Fundraising Visa Denied Again by Bush Administration

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press

Sunday February 26, 2006 02:11

by Irish Northern Aid

Gerry Adams' Fundraising Visa Denied Again by Bush Administration

Ambassador Mitchell The U.S Reiss, has barred The U.S. Special Envoy, Ambassador Mitchell Reiss, has barred Gerry Adams once again from attending a fundraising event unless the party endorses the PSNI [Police Service of Northern Ireland]. This time it is a Friends of Sinn Féin breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on the morning of March 16th.

The move by the US Administration is all the more galling and mystifying at this time as policing reform remains the subject of delicate negotiations with the British government, expected to introduce legislation devolving policing and justice to elected officials in the north of Ireland. Something Sinn Fein has been lobbying for.

The IRA moves over the past months in standing down as a military force and totally decommissioning its arms seems to have stimulated the US Administration to punish Sinn Fein.

The IMC [Independent Monitoring Commission], which is neither independent nor monitors anything - it is told what to report by the PSNI , just happens to be visiting the U.S.

Meanwhile, the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] is opening a US office. There are no plans to ban Ian Paisley from fundraising. The DUP will be rewarded for its tireless efforts to wreck the GFA [Good Friday Agreement] and return to the unacceptable, bloody past.

Full Statement:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/i...=2718

save preference

Comments (4 of 4)

gerry the hood

by irish man

Thu Mar 02, 2006 22:41

devalera. was an americian plank what would he know gerry is a plain, good old talker with a gun in his pocket the only thing hes party has brough to ireland is same .ireland will be whole again but hopfully without evil men like him.

rooster

by pat c

Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:56

ah, my feathered friend. i think you'll find that the names of ryan and o'donnell are well known in republican circles.

To those who are seeking info on

Frank Ryan:
http://www.answers.com/topic/frank-ryan

peadar o'donnell:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPdonnell.htm

in the latest AFA journal No Quarter there is a 4 page review/bio of Frank Ryan.

No Quarter No. 2. €2
Anti Fascist Action
IRELAND:

Dublin:
Connolly Books, 7 Bloom Lane, off Lower Ormond Quay.
Sinn Féin Bookshop, 44 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
News stall corner of Middle Abbey St/O Connell St.

GERMANY:

Hamburg
Schwarzmarkt
St. Pauli Fanladen

ENGLAND:

London
Index Books, Brixton
Housemans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1
Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High St. London E1

USA:

Minneapolis
Arise Bookstore

------------------------------------------
Also Available BY POST from:
Anti-Fascist Action, Ireland
C/o PO Box 3355
Dublin 7, Ireland
(please include 20% extra for postal costs, surface mail)
------------------------------------------
Queries to afa@ireland.com
------------------------------------------

stand in the tradition of peadar o'donnell and frank ryan.

by rooster

Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:42

Since the average person has never even heard of the first two I'm guessing that this is a bad thing???

dont worry gerry

Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:22

you have proved yourself to be a statesman. you condemned the rebublicans, socialists and anarchists who held the line on saturday, you will get your visa now! many SF members took part in the oopposition to the loyalist march. large sections of the crowd were roaring: "IRA! Sinn Fein!". yet they have been abandoned by the new respectable SF.

those who ensured that there were no loyalist feet on o'connell street on saturday stand in the tradition of peadar o'donnell and frank ryan.

gerry adams stands in the tradition of devalera.

Upcoming Events

New Events

Other Press

User Preferences

Feeds

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

The Saker

Public Inquiry

Voltaire Network

Gerry Adams' Fundraising Visa Denied Again by Bush Administration

Comments (4 of 4)