The BBC Northern Ireland news website carries the following headline today:
Good Friday Agreement: PM to invite Joe Biden to NI for 25th anniversary
If you don’t already know about the blinkered, biased opinion of Joe Biden of all things British, here are a few helpful hints about which I was reminded by a reader of ‘The Burning Bush’.
The late Robert Boyer of the Altoona Mirror wrote back in 1985 of Biden’s attempts to shield terrorists:
“The four men for whom the Senators (all Roman Catholics) seek safety here are charged abroad with planting bombs in public places, killing and taking hostages. The U.S. courts now protect them because their heinous acts were ‘political’, so they claim.
If Kerr and Dodd and Biden and their friends succeed, then we would have no legal recourse at all if, for instance, the killers of Robert Stethem, the U S sailor murdered in June by hijackers, were to seek sanctuary in a foreign country, claiming safety because Stethem was a member of the military service, and thus the killers’ crime was ‘political’.
Altoona Mirror , December 2 1985 p.4A,
Quoted in Paisley’s Struggle For Ulster by Dr Ronald Cooke.
Joe Biden’s anti-British Comments in Jerusalem – reported in the Daily Express, July 2022.
He said: “The background of my family is Irish American. And we have a long history not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people, with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish Catholics over the years for 400 years.”
Daily Express, 13 Feb 2022. (more…)