On the road to Britain's Bosnia
"Ask any activist in the North if Drumcree happened by accident and they will tell you 'no'. Three years of hard work went into creating that situation and fair play to these people who put the work in. These are the type of scene changes that we have to focus on, develop and exploit."
So said Sinn Fein-I.R.A leader Gerry Adams at a secretly taped meeting earlier this year. His boast shows all too clearly how Blair, Ashdown, Hague and all the rest of the Westminster traitors, were dancing to the I.R.A's tune when they approved of the use of massive military force to stop the Portadown Orangemen walking home from church for eight minutes along a main road, which they have used since it passed only green fields.
Naturally enough, the media had a field day over the terrible murder of the three Quinn brothers. But the truth is that the blame for their deaths, and for all the disturbances unleashed during the loyalists' protests against the trampling of their rights and identity, lies with the architects of the Good Friday sell-out, and with the parades Commission.
By giving in to republican threats and banning traditional marches from routes which have in recent years, come to be populated by Catholics, they have sent out a clear message to loyalists: "if you let them settle in your street, it will only be a matter of time before you lose the freedom to walk there as well."
The Establishment's determination to appease and reward the violence and ethnic cleansing campaigns masterminded by Adams & Co. therefore forces desperate loyalists to conclude that they have no choice but to respond with the same kind of evil. That is not the case, but it makes innocent Catholics the targets of attacks by their protestant neighbour. This is what has made the Good Friday sell-out, right from the start, another step on the bloody road to a British Bosnia.
Webmaster's note: This article was originally published in 'Spearhead' magazine No.354, August 1998.
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