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Thread #36272   Message #504388
Posted By: Big Mick
11-Jul-01 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gerry Adams - my hero
Subject: RE: BS: Gerry Adams - my hero
Yes, I agree completely with you, Kevin. But in order for that to happen, there has to be a fundamental change in what the marches represent. If this were a simple matter of my Catholic Brothers and Sisters not wanting to see a parade because it pissed them off, my response would be entirely different. I would remind them, the same as I have reminded my friends in the civil rights movement here in the States, that to impinge on their freedom of expression is to impinge on yours. But when the march includes damage and destruction of Catholic Churches, attacks on Catholics going to and from church, stopping in front of Catholic Churches and playing in a way to disrupt or make it impossible to celebrate the Mass, and burning of Catholic homes..............when these things are your definition of free speech, then you deserve the same treatment that the Klan, and the other white supremacy based organizations got and are getting. When hate is your mission, then you deserve to have the government that claims to represent the welfare of ALL THE PEOPLE hunt you out of existence. I hate the KKK, but I understand that they have a right to exist. But when their members murder, rape, and destroy property they deserve to be treated as a criminal cartel. ANY organization in the North that has as its mission the destruction of others deserves the same. Those Orangemen that simply want to celebrate their heritage should be allowed to do so...............when they demonstrate that they can do so peacefully and without a detrimental effect on the Catholic population. That has not been the case in the North for many years.

Mick