The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82976   Message #1525722
Posted By: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
22-Jul-05 - 05:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Drumcree March Dead and Buried
Subject: RE: BS: DRUMCREE MARCH DEAD AND BURIED
It is a sign of the times, however....

I remember the British printed media castigating the residents of the Garvaghy Road for protesting over such a 'trifle' as a march down a road.

If Paul Berry had have been a Sinn Féin member (... bear with me here ...), the media would have been full of the 'scandal'

Every concession the Nationalist Community has achieved, from the first Dungannon riots to the Parades Commission, has been won in the face of tremendous opposition and systematic victimisation

You really do have to literally fight for your rights, sometimes.

It just seems so grotesque that in the 21st century there are places where Christianity's own Wahabis still call for the total subjugation of a minority ethnic grouping, who they believe embody the Anti-Christ himself!

... In your own backyard, I'm talking about.

Maybe that's why certain British people live in a constant state of denial.