First and foremost Unionist politicos and Belfast County
Grand Lodge need to give better leadership. Unionist politicos are under the
delusion that the shinners/provos war is over, they are such naive fools. As
for the BCGL they are stuck in the 19th century when we need them to be looking
to the future, a future that if they were up to it, could be bright, beautiful and
Orange.
There is no point in going over the ashes as to why the
shinners/provos called a secession to their terror. We all know they were
losing the conflict. More and more of their expert personnel were getting older
with less of a belly for the fight, added to the fact that they were
infiltrated from the lowest provo to the most senior shinner by Special Branch
and MI5. So the only sensible option was to grasp the SDLP olive branch that
gives them a face saving way out of their terror.
After moving into this new phase it should not be forgotten
that just like the DUP the shinners/provos were not fully committed to the
peace arrangements. They still had to see how the republican masses would
react. In the end they bought into the process but with an agenda of not
working the agreements but to undermine the system from within, and the bonus
was that they could do this and get paid by the British to administer British
rule, very badly I may add. I think we can all say without fear of
contradiction that the shinners/provos are doing a first class shoddy job at administrating
British rule in Northern Ireland. The strategy that they are using is to divide
and rule.
I must stress again that we should be under no illusion the
shinners/provos are waging a war, and it’s a good war, it’s a war on several
fronts. It’s war on the streets, it’s a war at Stormont, it’s a class war and
it’s a propaganda war.
One of the main aims of this war is to further divide the
PUL community along class lines by using parading and schooling. And I have to
say they are doing a first class job of it, by using all the complex fronts
above as a single strategy.
Unionist politicos are giving the impression that now that
we have the Stormont assembly, the Good Friday agreement and the St Andrews
agreement, and several polls that say a sizeable majority wish to stay within
the UK, we are safe. These polls maybe factually correct, however the facts
being played out on the ground and on our TV’s and radios day in and day out is
very different.
The reality is that nothing has changed the
republican/nationalist sectarian war is on-going and intensifying. On the 12th
night Gerry Kelly in a TV interview claimed that a stretch of the Crumlin road
is now exclusively romanist and therefore de facto republican, in essence a no
go area for the Protestant Unionist Loyalist community.
This claim rather than being rebutted is being given a hint
of legitimacy by the parades commission determinations and how the psni police the
area or not as the case maybe, along with its shinner/provo politicos.
Here is where the war is being won and lost, republicans
have taken on board the situation on the street and in the polls and have now
moved their politics and strategy to their phase to use the weapons of parades
and class to further alienate working class and middle class Unionists. They
are back onto the streets but not in the mass civil disturbances of the 60’s
and 70’s, but in a subtle and cunning way and drawing in reactionary Unionist
Orange thinking, and they are using the psni, parades commission and residents
groups as the spearhead in their war against the PUL community, all very clever
stuff.
Unionists and the Orange Order need to wake up and start
smelling the rotting smell of decay that is coming from the psni, the parades
commission and the shinners/provos. They all need to be seen as the enemies’
weapons and we must take nothing they say as genuine or binding.
We need to start using the system to defeat the system, why
did BCGL not take this irrational decision on the 12th to the
courts??? At every turn republicans use the system and the courts!!! Why can’t
we???
Is it, it would cost too much??? Well what cost the Union!!!
Why can’t they have a list of people who are eligible for legal aid and get
them to take the issues to the courts, republicans do it all over Northern
Ireland, why can’t we???
The shinners/provos have got the psni and the parades
commission eating out of their hands. But more importantly they have the media
gorging at the table of propaganda. With Ardoyne and Donegall Street and every
other contrived flash point they have the media headline grabbers there waiting
for the least indiscretion so it’s the next day’s headline. And with every
flash point and bad headline we lose more and more support especially middle
class support.
Not that the middle classes don’t have their problems to
with the shinners/provos, in the scraping of the 11+ and the inevitable
scrapping of grammar schools.
Each issue in their PUL class war is being portrayed by the
shinners/provos as mutually exclusive. We won’t help the middle classes because
the shinners/provos have turned us against them, and they are turning their
backs on us because of the parade disturbances and the lack of support the
working class give to the grammar school system.
We don’t support the Unionist middle classes and they won’t support
us, very cleaver stuff.
The shinners/provos have made us into pariahs for the
Unionist middle classes, with contrived continuous parades, bonfires, the blue
bag brigade and irrational parades commission determinations and media
performances. And when you throw into the mix the shinners/provos demonization
of working class poor education attainment you have the perfect storm.
Every education minister in the assembly has been a
shinner/provo. First there was Martin McGuinness, then Caitriona Ruane now John
O’Dowd. During this time they have been emphasising the poor education
attainment of our children especially the children from working class PUL
communities in inner cities.
This is their main wepon to ensure that the middle classes
will never back the working classes, as they will not want to be dragged into a
comprehensive education system.
As for the working classes they have been told by the
shinners that the grammar school system is elitist and if you fail the 11+ you
are now irrelevant and a failure.
After 15 years of shinner/provo education ministers, it is
an indictment on their miss handling of the portfolio that we still have these
poor education attainment figures in working class schools. Why are there no
hard questions being asked of the shinners/provos and their track record. 15
years is a whole school generation and we are no better off today than we were
before they took the job.
But I suspect that was all part of their strategy.
Unless all sections of the PUL community come together we
are a lost cause, and until the Unionist politicos especially Peter Robinson,
wakes up and starts smelling the feces that we are wadding in, we will be drowning
in it and I fear that day is not that far off.
A classic example of this can be found on the Saturday after
the 12th, Martin McGuinness was in Ardoyne to listen to the
republicans.
Where was the leader of Unionism Peter Robinson??? Is he so
aloof being first minister that he does not feel the need to meet the working
class PUL community on the ground and in their heart lands? Is he saying we are
not important enough for the first minister to visit? Does Robinson know where
the Shankill, Twaddell Avenue, Woodvale, Crumlin or Ballysillan is? I suppose
if he is never seen on the ground in his own constituency of East Belfast and where
he lives. There is little or no chance he is ever going to make his way to
North Belfast to meet the people he says he leads???
Peter Robinson is not the leader that Unionism needs, and
the DUP shenanigans at Stormont are an embarrassment, as for the Orange Order,
it’s heading for irrelevance. And I say that with a heavy heart as a former
member who left it in exasperation; however I still have the best interests of
the Order at heart.
Let me relate a story told to me recently by a colleague.
Paisley, had talks with the Tories prior to the signing of the St Andrews agreement.
Paisley was aware that Cameron was most likely to win at the next election.
However if there was a tight election result the Tories wanted to know if they
could rely on DUP help if they needed their votes if there was a small Tory
majority.
Paisley aware of Cameron’s willingness to bring in radical
policies, asked if they form a government at Stormont would they be able to
block homosexual marriage and abortion. Cameron gave those assurances. Weeks
later we had a Stormont assembly.
Paisley and the DUP put their own narrow theological
religious interests before the greater good of the PUL community. We now have a
Stormont assembly working to a shinner and DUP political and theological
agendas, not an assembly working for or in the best interests of the majority,
but for and to the narrow agenda of the two main parties.
The DUP would rather destroy any Unionist opposition than
respect their alternative views and form alliances to defeat the real enemy. However
we need only look at their arrogance over the Red Sky debacle and on the Maze
issue, to see there destructive mind set.
As for the Orange Order I have contacted them with my concerns
and ideas over the years, and they are totally ignored. If they were doing a
good job you could understand them ignoring my communications. But the reality
is they seem to be rudderless and floundering around with the shinners/provos
pulling the strings.
You would think that they would be open to ideas from the
PUL community that could assist in getting parades and Organism marching. With
a better press, and getting the institution opened to a wider section of the
PUL community.
However they seem to be still living in the 19th century let alone the 21st century. They like the Unionist parties are reactionary and not proactive. We are not media savvy, this lets the republican hoards run rings around them, and with their allies in the media we look prehistoric and obstinate.
However they seem to be still living in the 19th century let alone the 21st century. They like the Unionist parties are reactionary and not proactive. We are not media savvy, this lets the republican hoards run rings around them, and with their allies in the media we look prehistoric and obstinate.
The Loyal Orders are by far their own worst enemy, they need
to review their future strategy and reflect on where they want to be, not in
the next few weeks but in decades ahead. And that goes for the DUP, UUP and the
other Unionist parties, but that takes strategic thinking and to be honest I
don’t see any. As for the Crumlin road I don’t see them getting back up the
road unless they have meaning full talks with republicans. We need to be more
confident of our position and go into talks, after all if we talk they can’t
put any more restrictions on other than totally ban the parade and the
republicans have said in media interviews that they don’t want to stop the
parade just respect. Well we should take them up on that challenge and what
would we lose? But that needs leadership and do we have a walking, talking,
thinking, leader?
After the parades commission gave the determination for the
Crumlin road, no return parade. Did they work on the premise that if there is
no home parade no one would want to use the Crumlin road to access the greater
Ardoyne or Ballysillan???
Gerry Kelly described the area as a 100% catholic in a TV
interview on the 12th night, he also said (I Para phrase) “that they
will not be walking up this road”.
All fine and dandy Gerry, the implication being that men,
women and children from the PUL who live locally can’t use this road, and they
need Gerry’s or the shinners permission to use or make their way home along the
Crumlin road???
If there is no parade the Orange Order and the Unionist need
to get the psni to give assurances that those who wish to use or go to their
homes in the greater Ardoyne and Ballysillan areas along the Crumlin road, who
are on foot will be facilitated. If they refuse take them to court.
The parades commission and psni can’t demand that they all
return home by 8pm, as they are private individuals going about their lawful
business.
As for Kelly, I would suggest that Gerry Kelly’s rhetoric
needs to be challenged as he stated that, that part of the Crumlin road is now
the de facto, “independent Irish catholic republic of Ardoyne”.
All this has come as news to me as I use this area on an
almost daily basis. Is this the shared space and future Kelly and the shinners
keep telling me about??? I get the impression that when there is a catholic or
nationalist/republican majority the shinners and local populous turn into a
mirror image of the things they are charging Unionists and the Orange Order
off. Strange how things go around.
Do I now need to ask Gerry’s or the shinners permission to
access the area???
I find what Kelly said offensive as I’m sure will those from
the PUL community who live and work around this area, and those who want to go
home via the Crumlin road on the 12th night or any other time of the year for
that matter.
Maybe I should put in a Gerry or shinner 11/1916 to get a
determination to see if I can use the Crumlin road???
For Gerry in his, independent Irish catholic republic of
Ardoyne. Here is an insight into my use of the now, independent Irish catholic
republic of Ardoyne, I go to the car wash, I go to the Credit Union, I go to
the library, I go to the chemist and shops, and go up and down the Ardoyne and
Crumlin road on an almost daily basis.
Memo to self must Gerry’s say so if I want to use the car
wash, credit union, library, chemist and shops. Must now carry passport to
check in at border control when wishing to enter the, independent Irish
catholic republic of Ardoyne, on my way to and from home. As this new statelet
is not part of the EU yet and as such there is no open border policy yet.
Lastly and more importantly, Kelly is playing to another
gallery; he has an electorate to win back and to play up to. GARC have been
giving the shinners a hard time in the “independent Irish catholic republic of
Ardoyne” and Kelly and the shinners need to win back some credibility.
At every flash point Unionist politicos both MLA’s and MP’s
should be there videoing the goings on of republicans and the psni. There
should be a dedicated Orange Order or Unionist facebook and youtube page, just
like the shinners have. And I should be specifically dedicated to propaganda,
where eyewitness can give their testimony to counter republican propaganda. As for
the Orange Order if they call people to protest they need to be there on the
front line, not at the Park Avenue hotel wining and dining.
RANGER 1640
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