“New judge? Old prejudices.”
There is no prejudice on my part, old or new, allen. Prejudice definition:
“an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.”
My opinion of Mr McGuiness has not been formed beforehand or without knowledge. It has been formed with the benefit of hindsight and what has happened over the past forty years or so. I do not rejoice at the news of anybody’s death, however odious they may be. But neither do I bestow post-mortem adulation on somebody as a hero of peace when in an earlier life he was involved, at quite a high level, in a campaign of violence and terror. The notion that he was to be applauded because he was instrumental in the “peace process” (which, as has been mentioned, had some less than savoury aspects, though that’s another argument) when he was firstly instrumental in the terror campaign that required such peace to be pursued, would be laughable were it not so serious.