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The arrest of Gerry Adams has not been universally welcomed, even by those who consider him guilty, if not directly, by association. Sinn Fein has complained that there may still be hard core loyalist elements within the PSNI who want to see Adams brought down and who are lukewarm about the peace process. The unionists insist that nobody is above the law. Maybe so but many are the unionists who are beyond reason.
Certain facts need once more to be rehearsed. Ireland is one country, separated into two because a protestant minority believe themselves to be sovereign above the majority and demand to remain a part of the United Kingdom. These people call themselves loyalists, yet their intransigence, thugishness, unwillingness to compromise and their refusal to recognize the will of the majority in the country of which the have occupied and separated a part, finds no echo in the rest of the United Kingdom at all.
Once a way is found to bring peace to a community torn by war, whether it is formally declared by one side against the other, or whether it is an insurgency involving terrorism and counter measures from the established authorities, everyone has to move forward together. To do this will mean drawing a veil over terrible things which happened in the conflict and to turn away from pursuing those suspected of being responsible for them. This means for victims there is no justice, but for them and for all, there is the reward of peace and harmony in which they can live thereafter.
Such a principle cannot be applied to this case but not to that. It has to be applied without favour across the board. It is the price of peace. Everyone in Northern Ireland, whatever their responsibility, whatever their stake, whichever side they are on and whatever they may have suffered or be suffering, needs to think about that.
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