SINN FEIN AND THE KLAN

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday June 04, 2003 19:04 by Frank

Sinn Fein councillors and right wing bigots in Sligo are campaigning to close down a new hostel for the homeless and for ex-offenders.

Sinn Fein councillors and right wing bigots in Sligo are campaigning to close down a new hostel for the homeless and for ex-offenders.

Attempting to whip up hysteria and terrify local residents, flyers have been circulated in Sligo claiming that “paedophiles, murderers, drug offenders and violent behaviour criminals from all parts of the country will be housed in the hostel.”

“We are told that ex-offenders will not be supervised outside the hostel and will have free access to all parts of the town” one flyer says

Protests have been organised outside the hostel and threats have been made that people using the hostel “would be identified and the public alerted”.

Sinn Fein Councillor Arthur Gibbons is one of those heading the campaign to have the hostel for the homeless closed.

Big business and Fianna Fail developers can do as they wish without a peep from Sinn Fein. However it is clear that homeless people and ex-offenders are an easy target.

Over the years it was usually the local gombeen men and blueshirts who led the mob against projects for the homeless, travellers, refugees, lone parents or ex-offenders. It is obvious that Sinn Fein is now becoming more right- wing that the right-wing itself

Of course you won’t read about this in An Phoblacht

*These are the same Sinn Feiners who in the recent past, as part of their sordid Mayoral deal with Fianna Fail, voted to impose Refuse Charges on the people of Sligo.