Past Quotes 1999
"I was astonished to read that almost all the terrorists in the Maze Prison were let out. They are hardened killers and criminals who should serve their sentences.
"After all, it isn't as if their murdered victims will be able to spend Christmas with their families."
--M.P. Audrey, The Sun, 29th December 1999.
"The only people to benefit from cancelling the poorest countries' debts would be the corrupt rulers of those countries, the western banks that receive the millions these leaders steal from their people, and the arms deals who will happily sell more weapons for more highly profitable wars within and between these poor countries."
--James Rowntree, The Daily Telegraph, 17th December 1999.
"Whose money goes to fund these banks to make the money available to poorer countries? Poor, hard-working people in wealthier countries, such as me maybe? If that is the fact, why should my hard-earned pittance bolster the despots and dictators who wage wars and sacrifice their own people willy-nilly? Why should I be held responsible and underwrite their despotism"
--Paulene Johnson, The Daily Telegraph, 17th December 1999.
"Glasgow is the heroin capital of Europe. Violent crime and burglary is rife. This week Strathclyde police launched a new initiative urging people to shop their neighbours for not wearing a seat belt.
"Last month they stopped 20,000 motorists for a random quiz on road safety, simply to give them an excuse for carrying out unjustified breath tests. Between now and the first week in January, the west of Scotland will be turned into a virtual no-go area. Yet burglaries and car crimes will go uninvestigated."
--Richard Littlejohn, The Sun, 14th December 1999.
"Although ultimately cleared of PC Blakelock's murder, Silcott was named as the leader of the riot death mob by 14 witnesses.
"Now he has become the master manipulator, able and naturally more than happy to dictate the terms of interviews with left-leaning publications."
--Stephen Wright, The Daily Mail, 14th December 1999.
"I READ with astonishment that Boyzone's Stephen Gately is 'gay' and wants to adopt a child. I find it odd that the British Agencies For Adoption And Fostering say there's no reason why he shouldn't.
"As a happily married woman I was told I couldn't - no reasons were given. I know someone who was turned down for being too fat. Maybe if we had lots of money, were 'gay' and famous we both have the children we so desperately long for."
--Mrs.D Holloway, The Sun, 10th December 1999.
"Sinn Fein claims that a linear-amplified device was built into the roof of a Ford Mondeo. Mr Adams claimed yesterday that the security services are responsible.
"We hope he is right. Sinn Fein is a talking head for the IRA: Mr McGuiness has actually been imprisoned for being an IRA member. That organisation has a vast arsenal of illegal weapons. It has yet to decommission a single one of them - let alone all of them, as it is required to do under the terms of the Belfast Agreement by next May. Sinn Fein/IRA are a criminal conspiracy against law, order and real peace."
--The Daily Telegraph, 9th December 1999.
"Homosexuals are not an oppressed minority today. A minority, yes. The General Household Survey found that only 0.1 per cent of households are headed by a same sex couple. As to the four indicators of oppression - Poverty, Unemployment, Powerlessness & Social exclusion - homosexuals are among a successful & favoured elite exercising influence out of all proportion to their numbers.
--Ann Whitaker, The Daily Telegraph, 7th December 1999, p23.
"In an 18-hour intensive searching operation at Dover 140 illegal immigrants were discovered. This equates to over 25,000 illegal immigrants coming into Britain each year through Dover alone! The tragic absurdity of our immigration laws means that all those captured will be allowed to remain by claiming asylum. Last year 23,000 similarly 'inadequately documented passengers' (to use the official euphemism) claimed asylum when caught trying to enter Britain. At the last count there was a backlog of 64,770 asylum applications outstanding - and these just refer to heads of households. The Home Office admit that these figures should be multiplied by three to get the real number of applicants."
--Right Now, October - December 1999, p22.
"There is no place, however, for homosexuals or lesbians in our armed forces. This country has become inflicted with the prominence of the foul and disgusting sexual orientation of so-called 'Gay Rights' groups. Physical homosexuality is sodomy and those who practise such acts are sodomites, and should be called as such. Those serving in the armed forces must be set apart from those in civilian employment. Homosexuals in the forces arouse the violent hostility of their comrades in arms and undermine authority. The situation becomes intolerable when homosexuals are given authority over the objects of their attentions."
--General Sir Walter Walker, KCB, CBE, DSO**, PMN, PSNB (Former NATO Commander-in-Chief), Right Now, October - December 1999, p8.
"Perhaps the most important post of all in the new Northern Ireland Executive is that of education minister. He will be the public face of the new government both to parents and children many of whom, Protestant and Catholic alike, have seen relatives murdered by the IRA.
"Who was appointed to it yesterday, thanks to senior civil servants and d'Hondt rules? Why, none other than Martin McGuinness, the unrepentant terrorist leader, once imprisoned for IRA membership. The appointment is the political equivalent of child abuse."
--The Daily Telegraph, 30th November 1999, p31.
"In his Mansion House speech this week, the Prime Minister announced 'There are now more English speakers in China, thanks to the BBC, than there are in Britain'.
"How much, I wonder, is that attributable to the BBC and how much down to the Government's policy on asylum-seekers?"
--Richard Littlejohn, The Sun, 26th November 1999, p11
"No army in history has ever voluntary given up its weapons while winning a war and Sinn Fein/IRA is no exception. The future will be surely bleak if they are admitted to the Northern Ireland Executive: they know full well that the British Government will not have the stomach to dismantle the assembly when there is a failure to disarm by the appointed date.
"They have learnt from experience that the threat of renewed violence is a winning weapon as they inch ever close to their objective of the United Ireland.
"There is a tragic inevitability in responding to these threats with appeasement and the republicans must be well pleased with the political climate pervading Westminster."
--Ian Maiden, The Daily Telegraph, 25th November 1999
"Mr Blair has promised to plough millions into tackling AIDS in the developing world.
"Why is he doing this when thousands are dying each year in this country of cancer
"It's about time Britain came first when it comes to spending our own money.
"Treatment of cancer in this country is a joke."
--Dave Cooper, The Sun, 23rd November 1999, p31
"'No one is interested in what we were, except for nostalgia' Our text for today is taken from the speech of the Prime Minister to the Lord Mayor's banquet on Monday night. They are the words of someone who, ashamed of his past, projects this guilt on to the nation. Just as he wishes to forget his quondam unilateralism and opposition to trade union reform, so he turns his back on British history before the advent of New Labour, seeing it only as a cause for apology".
--The Daily Telegraph, 23rd November 1999
"The Sinn Fein statement offered no decommissioning pledge. Nor did the I.R.A statement , so that organisation is not 'tied-in' to anything. "In any event Sinn Fein and the I.R.A are one and the same. It is worrying to see Mr Trimble participating in a verbal game that Sinn Fein/I.R.A play for tactical purposes."
--The Daily Telegraph, 19th November
"The conflict is not over, nor is the struggle"
--Martin Ferris; Senior Sinn Fein negotiator, and IRA Army Council member, 16th November 1999.
There is a terror of being tainted with accusations of 'homophobia'. This is a concept invented to advance the selfish interests of homosexuals by slandering anyone who disapproves of homosexuality as a foaming bigot".
"Homosexuality is a minority pursuit a bit like fox-hunting. Unlike fox-hunting it's not under threat. Because homosexuals are over-represented at every level of government, their agenda is continually being advanced".
--Richard Littlejohn, The Sun,16th November 1999, p11
"Like many other charities, St. Dunstan's is struggling to pay the bills. Yet its applications for help from the government and the National Lottery Board has been turned down. Funny how there's no shortage of money for asylum seekers, gypsies, drug addicts, young criminals and all manner of fatuous 'Cool Britannia' art projects, but not a penny can be found for brave men and women who lost their sight fighting for this country".
--Richard Littlejohn, The Sun, 12th November 1999, p11