A Tangled Web

Cultural Genocide Continues



A little over 6 years ago I was standing with the Orangemen on Drumcree Hill, facing the barricades erected by the security forces to prevent those loyal to their country parading down a street in their own country; a street occupied by people who wanted to destroy their country. I was stood about half way between the offending partition and the church itself, when my friend and I got into conversation with an elderly Orangeman. He said to me: 'Ahh laddie, this is just the start. If they (the IRA-fronted Garvaghy Road bacilli) win this battle they'll be telling us where we can and cannot march across the whole of Ulster.' I looked at my friend (a long-standing Orangeman himself) and he nodded in agreement. If prizes were handed out for prescience, that septuagenarian would be holding aloft a gold medal by now.



In the mid-80's, republicans were successful in re-routing Orange parades away the 'The Tunnel' area of Portadown. Then, by the mid-90's 'project kulturkampf' had shifted its focus towards Drumcree, the Ormeau Road interface in Belfast, and the Bogside area of Londonderry. More recently we have seen violence orchestrated by republican thugs in Maghera - where a delivery van was set alight - in order to deter members of the Royal Black Preceptory from parading in the town. Now, there are protests afoot in the Co Antrim village of Rasharkin, an area with no previous incidents of animosity between rival communities. That said, Ballymoney Council never used to have the malignant presence of Sinn Fein/IRA in its chambers, either.



Where will it be next? Lisnaskea perhaps, or Newtownstewart, or Bessbrook, or Stewartstown, or Aughnacloy??? Are there any towns now safe from the tidal wave of Sinn Fein-orchestrated scum? Will the Parades Commission continue to dance to the Brownshirts' tune? That's something else for the DUP bigwigs to ponder before their dalliance with the IRA's apologists in a resurrected Stormont.