Ross McWhirter
Sir: Did someone speak of freedom? Ross McWhirter spoke of freedom, and Ross McWhirter is dead: killed, brutally shot down by the IRA, or some splinter allied gang, for daring so to express himself. And each of us is put on his honour to stand up and be indeed counted, as Ross McWhirter stood up.
I supported Mr McWhirter's anti-trade union efforts, because I felt the trade unions were too powerful, and too arrogant (Mr Jack Jones recently told the Spanish people he would stop trade with them, if Franco shot terrorists) holding the community to ransom by their demands. And now what is that dry rustling sound I hear? It is the trade unions rubbing their hands at the death of their number one enemy. And what is that murmuring I hear now? It is the whispering of that Labour Party leftish committee that refused to accept a motion against the IRA — leaving it, like that other document detailing the Trotskyist infiltrators into the Labour committees, to "lie on the table'.
I would have supported Mr McWhirter's anti-terrorist — for terrorist read Fascist or authoritarian everywhere — measures if I had known about them. I mourn him now as a most brave and courageous fighter for freedom, for all those values which I value,' and which neither the guns of the leftish-Irish, nor any bombs or guns, shall shoot for the earth, however hard they try. And they are trying hard, they are really waging total war on our society (as witness the deaths also of those young soldiers in Ulster recently), having done a deal about a 'cease-fire' solemnly with Mr Merlyn Rees. And Mr Rees will no doubt wring his sanctimonious hands over Ross McWhirter, and go on releasing detainees in Ulster to come over here and carry out further killings and bombings, and the British public will not get angry — after all, you cannot get angry with the romantic lilting Irish, now can you? — and our society will continue on its slide to — where?
Would I be terribly, terribly wicked if I said that the death penalty should be brought back for terrorism, and that war might be waged against those who are waging war against us, and that the law for treason might be — shall I say — reactivated?
Ewart Milne 46 De Parys Avenue, Bedford
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