Devlin deported

[Jeff Corey]

Last Friday, US agents deported Bernadette Devlin McAliskey back to Ireland, when she tried to visit the US.
The activist and former member of Paliament was tossed out of here, I wonder why? Maybe she said something about wars being bad once?
The civil rights activist who was shot in her own home back then can't even come here now. Who put the word down? Asscroft? Blair?

 

[Hazelip]

Substantiating link? I've not yet heard of this...

 

[Jeff Corey]

Newsday, Feb 24 and 25, Breslin's column, page A39 on the 24 th.
I read Newspapers, I don't got no stinkin' lynx. No stinkin badgers, too.

 

[aerocontrols]

Link here

Officials of the Justice Department, INS and State Department yesterday declined to comment publicly on the barring of McAliskey, but an INS official who requested anonymity said, "Ms. McAliskey was returned based on an expired visa waiver."

My former roomate got sent back to Germany for trying to get back into the US with an expired Visa.

MattJ

 

[Graham]

Last Friday, US agents deported Bernadette Devlin McAliskey back to Ireland, when she tried to visit the US.
The activist and former member of Paliament was tossed out of here, I wonder why? Maybe she said something about wars being bad once?
The civil rights activist who was shot in her own home back then can't even come here now. Who put the word down? Asscroft? Blair?

Just a little information on Bernadette McAliskey, for those of you who may not know of her, or only know her by name:

Searc's Web Guide

(The bottom two thirds is a sampple of her writing)

I was going to make a point with this post but can't find anthing to back it up with so I'll keep my comments to myself except to add that Bernadette Devlin has kept a lot of bad company in her time and continues to do so.

In alliance with other forces --Bernadette Devlin and Martin Galvin, to name two -- the dissidents set up a new party and a new army. Convinced of their rightness, believing the people of Omagh would back them (the core of the splitters had been the local government...), the 32 County clowns contested the local elections under the slogan of "war until victory". Naturally they were crushed into the dust, one candidate out of thirteen was elected. About four weeks later, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement & their "Real IRA" abandoned the "arms of criticism", for the "criticism of arms". The Omagh bombing was to have been the opening blow of their armed struggle against Sinn Fein and the IRA. Their volunteer from the South (who was driving the car bomb) got lost, dumped the car in the festival crowd and ran away -- 35 dead, 600 some wounded....

Source (I'll qualify this by saying I know nothing about athe source whatsoever)

She has opposed practically every movement towards peace in the North of Ireland and advocated a return to violence. I doubt she has ever expressed the opinion that war was bad, at least not any wars that involves killing British people, Northern Irish Loyalists and/or Protestants.

But you're right, the US authorities have been welcoming Irish terrorists into their country for decades - why stop now?

Oops, I said I would keep my comments to myself - oh well.

Edited to add that you can find the original news story here