Friday, February 10, 2006
Reconciliation Impossible
"Whenever persons responsible for serious violations are neither punished nor disciplined and the impression gains credence that they are being shielded, then doubt is cast upon the democratic ideals of the state. A refusal on the part of the state to investigate and discipline serves to create ambiguity where there should be clarity, and actually encourages disrespect for the law--even tempting people to take the law into their own hands, as so many have in fact done. Furthermore, the obscuring of the truth at the highest level, or denial of what has happened, renders reconciliation virtually impossible, because it seriously limits the possibility of real communication between people as between fellow-citizens."
--Rev. Terence McCaughey, November 1996
from the foreword to Bloody Sunday by Don Mullan
--Rev. Terence McCaughey, November 1996
from the foreword to Bloody Sunday by Don Mullan
