February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Speaking after Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams met Bill Clinton for an hour in Dublin on Tuesday, Paisley lashed out, claiming he was “ignoring” the results of the May 5th Westminster election, in which the DUP received an increased electoral mandate.
Paisley said Clinton had “revealed his unmitigated cheek” by visiting the Republic, a country which Paisley described as “wanted to destroy Ulster’s place in the United Kingdom.”
The DUP leader went on to accuse the Republic of “lecturing” Britain and demanding that Northern Ireland’s “democratic expression of its own future” be set aside.
Further, he accused President Clinton of having “always been a fellow traveler” with Sinn Fein. Now that he had left office, said Paisley, he “shows himself to be the rejecter of democracy”.
The unionist people of Northern Ireland, said the DUP leader, had rejected the Agreement which, he said, was “devoid of democracy” and had demanded a new beginning by “barring the gates of its government to terrorists of whatever side they come from”.
“Clinton cannot have his way and force IRA/Sinn Fein terrorists into the government of this part of the United Kingdom as I told him to his face when he was in Belfast”, said Paisley. “He would not bring the Oklahoma bombers into his government when he was in office but rather threatened them with the almighty punishment of his government”.
“Yet he dared to dictate to the free people of Northern Ireland that they must have such terrorists in their government. Don’t do what I do but do what I say — that is the hypocritical Bill Clinton, a has-been.”