Again this summer was a miserable summer, weather wise it was an
improvement on previous years, however on the parading, anti-Protestant,
anti-Unionist, anti-Loyalist and anti-Loyal Order front it’s been another hot
and irrational summer.
A case of bad timing and geography, and a shinner with a video camera
showed a band playing outside a closed and empty building. The video by the
Sinn Fein/provo activist, was then leapt upon by his leaders in the republican
movement, a roman catholic bishop, his priest, his congregation, the newly
formed concerned residents of Carrickhill, the SDLP, the ludicrous parades
commission, and the ever dependable anti-Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist BBC,
other print media and uncle Tom Cobley and all.
Thanks to all the above they kept this non-story running for months and
raised community tensions to fever pitch.
What caused all this alleged angst, started the sky to fall in and the
world coming to a premature end, a band playing outside an empty chapel. All this
because one band played the Beach Boys tune Sloop John B, the alleged famine
tune (it was not the famine song as they did not sing the words) outside an
empty and closed chapel and empty and closed parochial house, an allegation
that has yet to be proven. However what is proved is that the band did offer an
apology for any misunderstanding and offence.
The priest of the chapel was out of the country at the time and was
phoned by a member of the Carrickhill residents group to be told that a band
had played outside his chapel.
Before the BBC ensured the allegation was proved by contacting the band
to get their view of events and a statement. They went live and reported the
events on radio and then on TV later. The pompous Wendy Austin conducted her
very own kangaroo court, and found not only the band guilty, but the whole
Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist community along with every Loyal Order member.
The BBC thought their guilty judgment was given a hint legitimisation
when senior Protestant church leaders wedded in. But after they were given the
facts, their ill-informed views were revised and retracted.
To put this into context it’s not as if the band abused an altar boy or
girl, but to listen to the media and republicans you would have thought that is
what went on. Sexual and physical abuse within the roman catholic church on
their own people, is a ten page article for another day, but in the perverted
minds of BBC NI and other media outlets,
an unsubstantiated trumped up case of alleged sectarianism is manna from
heaven.
This is what the republican movement, a bishop, his absent priest, his
congregation the SDLP and the irrational parades commission are allegedly
getting so offended about. A band playing outside an empty building and showing
off their marching skills as they did so.
They are allegedly offended by a Scottish football song, telling a
section of the Scottish population, who don’t see themselves as Scottish but
Irish to go home to Ireland?
Here are the facts that the list above don’t want or like to digest;
the potato famine wasn’t an exclusively Irish roman catholic, Irish nationalist
or Irish republican event.
Many tens of thousands of Protestants both in Ireland and Scotland were
affected and died as a result of the famine. However the Irish roman catholic
church, Irish nationalists and Irish republicans, have made an exclusive
apartheid industry out of the famine, and this event is more evidence if ever
we needed it, of their ‘Most Offended People Ever’ (MOPE) title.
Protestant and Unionist famine victims also died in the streets and
were forced to emigrate to escape the famine. The cemeteries on the Shankill
Road and at Clifton Street where famine cemeteries as were other cemeteries
around Belfast, and nearly every Protestant parish in Ireland and the west of
Scotland had thousands of Protestants buried in mass graves.
At this point I would like to point out that the Irish roman catholic
church, along with Irish nationalists and Irish republicans have cultivated and
created an exclusive and apartheid history of the famine and created a whole
industry around the famine. Never mentioning in their story and their
revisionist view the fact that the famine had thousands Protestant victims and
suffers???
Knowing now that the famine song is about people who don't see
themselves as Scottish and that there were thousands of Protestants famine
victims; then surely that makes any alleged offence taken from any alleged
famine tune by Irish roman catholic’s and Irish republicans and nationalists
somewhat mute???
What is not in doubt and overtly sectarian is the fact that the potato
famine was used by Irish republican terrorists as a recruiting sergeant to
swell the ranks of Irish republican terrorist groups.
To this day the leader of the Irish republican movement Gerry Adams is
still going around the world giving a prejudiced and apartheid view of the
facts of the famine. He is also trying to redefine the terms used to describe
the famine, as the Irish Holocaust. Now that is offensive.
There is a famine visitor village at Doagh, County Donegal. And if you
visit it you will not see any mention of the Protestant victims of the famine.
Interestingly the republicans and roman catholic sensitivities and
offence on the famine does not stretch to the closed season at the famine
village. During the closed season the famine village is turned into “Donegal
Lapland” a commercial jolly, dance in the streets Christmas visitor attraction.
Now because of this alleged offence and the BBC’s live kangaroo court,
we have had more Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist and Loyal Order vilification by
the ever pious Sinn Fein/IRA republican movement, the SDLP, the Irish roman
catholic church, the parades commission, local print media and middle class
Protestant Unionists. And now we have another contrived contentious parade
area. An area that throughout the troubles was never contentious???
You are probably wondering what has parading issues, got to do with the
Protestant Unionist middle classes??? Well everything. The parades issue cannot
be seen in isolation; it has to be seen as a wider campaign of a republican war
on two fronts. Both wars are being waged on the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist
communities working and middle class a war on parades and education.
As a result of republican attempts to demonize the working class
Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist and the Loyal Orders both nationally and
internationally. The aim of republicans is to get it into the minds of middle
class Protestants and Unionists, by the use of contrived contentious flash
points and alleged offence. That the other part of the Protestant Unionist family
is not worthy of support, people who see parades as an integral part of their
culture.
Now let me spell this out the second front in the republican movement’s
war, a war on education, in the guise of the 11+ and grammar schools.
The republican movement’s education ministers have removed the 11+, and
have insured that it has stayed that way by taking the education portfolio at
every Stormont assembly.
The republican movement see grammar education as pivotal in breaking
the Protestant and Unionist middle classes. The 11+ is being portrayed as the
preserve of affluent middle class Protestants and Unionists. The 11+ is the
middle class Protestant and Unionist parades commission issue.
The republican movement’s education minister has threatened parents
with court and used the ever willing left leaning republican media and the BBC
to demonize the 11+. He has ensured that primary schools do not have time
allocated in their timetable to teach and prepare children for the new transfer
tests and has also threatened primary school principals with sanctions if they
go outside these procedures. This from a Sinn Fein education minister who cries
at every opportunity about equality and choice, what choice will Protestants
and Unionists have in his Ireland of equals?
The other part of the 11+ campaign is very subtle and you may have
missed it. The republican movement’s education ministers have at every
opportunity demonised working class Protestant, Unionist, and Loyalist
education achievement. By claiming the 11+ is elitist and stating that it
disadvantages working class Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist communities. This is
putting working class and middle class Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist
communities in direct conflict with each other.
This is similar to the republican movement attempts at contriving or
making parts of if not all of a parade continuous. They then charge in with the
old chestnut of cost to the economy for the policing. This after decades of
republican violence and rioting at now contrived continuous parades. The
shinners/provos don’t do irony do they?
The republican movement is driving a wedge between Protestant, Unionist
and Loyalist communities. The middle class Protestants and Unionists see the
parades as something that does not involve them. And the working class
Protestants, Unionists and Loyalists, are being told that good education and
the 11+ is elitist an anathema, and not for them.
The republican movement are splitting the Protestant, Unionist and
Loyalist communities along class lines and they are driving a coach and horses
through the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist communities, which their
terrorist campaign could ever do.
What do we do? We need like 100 years ago to come together in common
cause.
My final word on this is that the Protestant and Unionist middle
classes, they have more to lose than the working class. Unless Protestant and
Unionist middle classes wake up and start smelling the coffee and support the
Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist working classes their cause is lost. They need
to get out and vote and the main Unionist Parties need to become one.
United We Stand Divided We Fall.
The shinners/provos are masters at street politics and that’s why they
pick on issues that they know irritate the PUL community hence the flag issue
and parades. The shinners then stand back and berate the PUL community for
their reaction.
This is done to keep their electorates eye off the fact that they have
not delivered on any of the issues that will lead to a united Ireland. If the
shinners/provos are seen to annoy the PUL community this fulfils the sectarian
lust within the republican movement and their electorate, and it’s dressed up
as equality.
Republicans in my view always seem to be setting the agenda, and
Unionists look stupid as they are left scrambling or floundering around trying
to play catch up.
With Unionists in constant reactionary mode it makes us looks weak and
ineffective. Unionist politicians need to wake up and realise they are in a
political war. They need to anticipate issues and think strategically and long
term and put the focus on shinner ministers and their non-delivery.
Here is an example of the republican’s strategic and long term vision.
Over 25 years ago the shinners started a new phase of their anti-Protestant,
Unionist; Loyalist campaign when they created alleged residents groups.
In 1997, Gerry Adams told an RTÉ journalist of the shinners/provos
involvement in the now parades disputes: "Ask any activist in the north,
‘did Drumcree happen by accident?’, and he will tell you, ‘no’. Three years of
work on the lower Ormeau Road, Portadown and parts of Fermanagh and Newry,
Armagh and in Bellaghy and up in Derry. Three years of work went into creating
that situation and fair play to those people who put the work in. They are the
type of scene changes that we have to focus on and develop and exploit"!
This was the start of a campaign of vilification and demonization of
the Loyal Orders ably assisted by the mass media, especially the BBC.
The Loyal Orders and Unionists did not handle the situation well and
I’m sure that was anticipated by the shinners and they exploited this to the
full, and still do. This was the first salvo and the start of a shinner/provo
twin track campaign to divide Unionism.
The next phase was more subtle. When the shinners/provos moved into the
first assembly Martin McGuinness and Sinn Fein took the education portfolio.
They now moved onto the Protestant Unionist middle classes, with the second
salvo in their campaign the removing of the 11+.
We need to remember that the shinners/provos have taken the education
portfolio first, before all other ministries in the assembly. Our children have
only ever had a shinner/provo education minister, there have been three in
total in the Stormont assemblies.
The shinners/provo continuing campaign of Loyal Order and working class
Unionist Loyalist demonization and vilification is designed to alienate and
divide the middle class Protestant Unionist, from the working class Protestant
Unionist and Loyalist.
The shinners/provos have ensured that the Loyal Orders and the working
class Unionist and Loyalists are seen as irrelevant and something that must be
avoided by the Protestant Unionist middle classes.
To ensure that the working class Protestant Unionists Loyalist are
alienated from the middle class Protestant Unionist the shinners/provos claim
that the grammar school education system is middle class and elitist. Claiming
that working class Protestant Unionist Loyalist social mobility is not
attainable via the middle class and elitist grammar school system. And to
achieve their divide and rule, they demonize working class Protestant Unionist
Loyalist education attainment.
To summarise, with republican fanaticism and zeal the shinners/provos
vilify and demonize the Loyal Orders to ensure the Protestant Unionist middle
class see it as irrelevant and something to be avoided. Then they demonize
working class Protestant Unionist Loyalist educational attainment, and social
mobility with the result that they have basically set both sides of Unionism on
a course of mutual loathing. Clever stuff!!!
So over a period of 20 odd years the shinners have created a chasm
between the two sections of Unionism. Resulting in low Unionist voter turnout,
and republican wins by default.
What every Unionist and Loyalist needs to remember, is that the
shinners see themselves as a mass movement, and have a long term strategic
plan.
The Unionist people and their parties now need to step up to the plate
and prove that they have the same political acumen as the republican movement
in the guise of Sinn Fein/IRA and get out an vote.
The future is in our hands make your X's and 123's where it counts on a
ballot paper not just now but always. As the shinners/provos say "vote
early vote often". Just in case the psni are reading this that last
sentence was a joke. And just for the psni officers that don't know the
difference in the term sentence. A sentence is not just something that a flag
protester gets on trumped up charges from the psni, a sentence is: A set of
words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate,
conveying a statement, question, exclamation!!! or A grammatical unit that is
syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in
imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one
finite verb.
