tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12894384.post7060490234055155514..comments2024-01-07T05:38:18.423+00:00Comments on Wednesday's Irish politics blog: Quick note on the Paul Quinn caseWednesdayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09799255977193959208noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12894384.post-32530491581114544282007-10-26T14:22:00.000+01:002007-10-26T14:22:00.000+01:00With all due respect, and I mean that quite litera...With all due respect, and I mean that quite literally, putting the word "Fact:" before an allegation doesn't make it anything more than an allegation. Maybe those things happened and maybe they didn't, but I'm not going to assume that because some people, most of whom happen to be our political opponents or anonymous internet posters, said they happened means that they did. There were a lot of so-called "fact:"s thrown about in relation to the other two cases I mentioned, which were actually no such thing.<BR/><BR/>What I'm hearing, and this is being said privately by people who would know, is that the murder really was a purely criminal matter with no involvement from anyone in our movement. The burden of proof is on those who say otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12894384.post-33547117880688440722007-10-26T13:05:00.000+01:002007-10-26T13:05:00.000+01:00The family was not only expressing a view. Fact: P...The family was not only expressing a view. Fact: Paul Quinn was threatened by more than one known Provo. Fact: the wife of one of them came to his house waving a hammer and said Quinn would be found by the road in a black bag. Fact: an innocent intermediary passed along an exiling order which was very explicit in the name of the Provisional IRA. Fact: within a couple of days he was battered to death. There is also a lot of powerful circumstancial evidence, not least the fact that his killing involved up to 20 people counting scouts and lookouts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com