THERE is a song by Cormac, cartoonist and singer. It has following verse:
•For liberals and moderates I do not give a straw, They kept us down for 50 years and say now keep the law, They say, now hundred years, And help allay the right wing fear rawl back in your gutter Paddy Reilly.' These words are Paisley is once more demonstrating the unsavoury nature politics. And this promises to produceall sorts of fresh warnings about what the Protestants would do if the British pulled out.
For the ruling Paisley is a two-edged sword. Loyalists' leader's outbursts at the European Par tament determined opposition to the Pope visiting Ireland is rather embarassing for the British. After all, Paisley is the strongest advocate for them staying in the North of Ireland.
On the other hand, Paisley's mass support, as shown in the European elections, can provide a justification for British troops staying in Ireland: they are need to 'restrain the forces of Protestant extremism'.
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of the Catholics in the go. class, withdrawal are The revolutionary and poses contradiction for the minute Britain leaves Memory Newcastle: Departs 6.30am, Britain can once again raise the Paisleyism and applying the 'final solution' to Northern Irish Catholics.
But if the Loyalists have the desire and ability to inflict astronomical casualties on the Catholic population in the event of a British withdrawal, why does Paisley shout louder than anyone else that British troops have to Again, if the Catholics face the of mass liquidation after and demanding The main political parties in the South, major political representatives North. and even the head of the Irish Catholic Church - all agree that Britain has to ability But the advocates of immediate found the and anti-imperialist Yet these would be the first targets of such a final solution. So unless they share a collective death wish, why are they so insistent on "troops out now"?
that Paisley's final solutoin is at hand demand troops out leave. now don't believe they would be in mortal danger if Britain were to go. On the contrary they believe there is Birmingham: Departs 10am, Hall of Central Poly Station. Phone 735979 for details mortal danger while Britain stays.
What reason would the Loyalists have for pagrom stas is where the rise of anti-Catholic Paisley becomes significant. That rise has witnessed the greatest splintering in the Loyalists politics ever seen. Paisley has emerged as the top dog. but there are plenty of other dogs in the pack and they are all barking at each other.
The reason for this is that the Loyalists can no longer agree on any single solution. They are divided over direct rule, over a return to Stormont. over independence. Some Protestant bourgeois even recognise that in a peaceful, capitalist, united they could well have much to gain. It i is such splits that seriously weaken the For Loyallsls lO agree onl common way forward; the agreement there is at the moment is that Britain has to stay.
Remove Britain and even unifying factor goes The splits in the Loyalist camp would multiply.
way forward would found and the physical danger to the Catholic population would diminish.
Ot course. ne given that not one ounce of Catholic blood will flow should British troops What is certain is that longer Britain stays, the longer blood will flow.
If, as many suggest, Britain were Middlesborough: Departs 7.30am; Stockton 7.40am. Phone 87699 for details to 'name a date' for withdrawal, say for three years hence, what would the Protestants do declaration? It is fairly safe to predict that they would deadly assault on population to try and force Britain to stay.
It is wrong to think that Loyalist violence is "motiveless". period of sectarian of Catholics suspension of thert about violence was launched to try and force the security forces repression of blackmail Britain into staying.
In the event of withdrawal violence would no longer apply. The only bulk of the security forces would have gone. Little pressure could be put or Britain to stay because Britain would that have left. Un the No campaign of violence directed against the Catholics with the aim of bringing Britain back would be pointless. For if Britain were forced to withdraw, it would hardly have the will or capacity can be the Troops out now politically correct, well Edinburgh: Departs Waverly Bridge 10pm, I1 Aug.
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Never he beaten?
Yes.
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can't beat them.
sent him there the issue?
He's, job.
got no understand it.
mindless?
No.
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