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Thread #130131   Message #2936328
Posted By: Jim Carroll
28-Jun-10 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
Subject: RE: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
At no time have any of those quote indicated that I am suggesting ignoring the opinions of the majority in favour of a minority - the additional conclusion were all your own, not mine.
It is the duty of any elected government to represent the nation as a whole, not that section who voted for them - that is how democracy works.
I have repeated that the new Northern Ireland authority not only just represented the Protestant minortity, but declared that as its intention - a Protestant State (with a third of the population Catholic) a recipe for the violence that followed. You have failed to even deny this fact, let alone disprove it, so presumably you accept and support it. To deny any minority full representation, no matter how small, is classic fascism, be they Jewish, West Indian, Asian, Traveller, Catholic, whatever - Fascism plain and simple - the suppression of a minority by a majority. Even Thatcher had to pay lip service to representing those who opposed her, though she wasn't very convincing at it.
Are you suggesting that the establishment of the Union in the U.S. was a fascist act? - I seem to remember that it was the Confederacy that produced the Ku Klux Clan in order to continue its supremecy over the blacks.
How on earth do you reach the conclusion that the rest of your quotes are not indicative of a repressive regime (Black and Tans, threat of invasion if the treaty was not signed, the new administration reprenting only the Protestant majority, Civil Rights Marches violently crushed, continued violence (such as Bloody Sunday) by the British and by the Protestant majority) - show me where they are not - one by one would be helpful. You have not denied that any of them happened, so you presumably support them all.
As I said, I have never suggested that the rights of the majority should be ignored, though I do believe they should not exclude the opinions or the well being of the minority, as they have done over the last 80-odd years.
"Jim, everyone who has read this thread is laughing at you"
Where would this be then?
Jim Carroll