NI is a plainly apartheid state well into that most dangerous era when the oppressed minority has surpassed the critical mass necessary for a sustained drive for legitimate civil liberties and civil rights. The only real question is how long will the British government support a regime which is contrary to British moral mythology, though not to the history of a long succession of British governments.

Here's an appropos quote from Dean Johnathon Swift, a Protestant Churchman of great intellect from an earlier time: "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."