Bill Clinton was the first American president to welcome Irish terrorist Gerry Adams to the White House, starting a tradition that even President Bush honored for a time, but not this year: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush (news – web sites) will mark St. Patrick’s Day this year without inviting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams … Continue reading “No terrorists in the White House this year”
Bill Clinton was the first American president to welcome Irish terrorist Gerry Adams to the White House, starting a tradition that even President Bush honored for a time, but not this year:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush (news – web sites) will mark St. Patrick’s Day this year without inviting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams or other Northern Ireland political parties, a senior Bush administration official said on Friday.
The White House announced Bush will welcome Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to the traditional March 17 “Shamrock Ceremony” and that afterward, Bush will greet civil society leaders from Northern Ireland who are “working to promote peace and tolerance in their community.”
The White House statement made no mention of Northern Ireland political parties, which have participated in the ceremony in recent years.
The senior administration official said the White House decided against inviting leaders of Northern Ireland’s political parties, including Adams, for the traditional St. Patrick’s Day reception.
“We are disappointed by the December failure of the Northern Ireland political parties to reach a settlement agreement,” the official said.
One factor in this long overdue sobering-up was a finding by a joint Irish/British government panel that Adams has continued to be involved with the terrorist IRA after pretending to be separated from it:
The report published today on the IMC Web site includes the theft among several crimes it blames on the IRA. The allegations may further hamper efforts to restore the power-sharing government that brought the province’s Roman Catholics and Protestants together under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
“Sinn Fein cannot be regarded as committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means, so long as its links to Provisional IRA remain,” the panel said in the report, referring to the mainstream republican armed group. “Some of its senior members, who are also senior members of Provisional IRA, were involved in sanctioning the series of robberies.”
The commission said it would have recommended expelling Sinn Fein, which has close historic links to the IRA, from the assembly for an undisclosed period had the body been sitting. The report didn’t identify the Sinn Fein members suspected of a role in the crimes.
It’s time to stop pretending that Adams is anything but a rank terrorist, to prosecute him for his crimes, and to sanction any American politician who supports him, including Republican Peter King and Democrats Tom Hayden and Teddy Kennedy.
And of course he should never have a visa to enter the US (unless we plan to arrest him.) Drop the State Department a note to that effect, like this one:
Our country is engaged in a global war on terrorism, yet notorious terrorist Gerry Adams is routinely admitted to our country and feted by politicians from Peter King on the right to Teddy Kennedy and Tom Hayden on the left. Some cities, such as Oakland, CA, have honored him by naming streets after him.
This is wrong. Adams is a brutal murderer of innocent people, including school children. He should not be admitted to this country, and his supporters should not be allowed to raise money for his filthy terrorist organization.
The President made a very strong and constructive step in canceling the Clinton era tradition of inviting this piece of human scum to the White House for St. Patrick’s Day. Please follow up by making it clear that the United States has zero tolerance for terrorists of all kinds by refusing him a visa.
Thank you.
