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Thread #130131 Message #3251309
Posted By: Jim Carroll
06-Nov-11 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
Subject: RE: BS: Bloody Sunday Report - AT LAST
"What had the riots to do with the summer parades Jim, and what makes them "sectarian"?
Have you ever seen one of these marches - not in rural Ireland but in Derry, Belfast or even Liverpool or Glasgow - if you had you wouldn't have to ask such a breathtakingly ignorant question
The most vivid descriptins of sectarianism come from the Leon Uris book I put up and from 'The Troubles' essays based on the ITV series of the same name.
They are sectarian, and even when they are prevented from taking place through Catholic areas (as the organisers demand - see Drumcree) when they end the particpants march unofficially through the areas they have been banned from. They are violent demonstrations of political/religious superiority.
Did you know that several lodges demanded that the Loyalists who attended the funeral the Catholic policeman murdered by the IRA be disciplined and expelled? Neanderthal thugs.
"My opinions WERE just those of Sinn Fein. I quoted officials' statements."
No they weren't - I took my quote from one you put up, more or less as it appeared - do you honestly believe that Sinn Fein would give its support to violently sectarian anti-Catholic demonstrations - they'd last ten minutes in the six counties if they ever came near to doing so.
The claim of "self defence" for Bloody Sunday was never withdrawn - it was part of the first wwhitewash enquiry and remained an excuse for the massacre until the Saville report - Saville directly referred to is as being not true - why do so if it had been wiithdrawn.
You seem to have dropped your claim that there has been no viollence over the last few years - want me to provide the links about the Belfast riots?
Jim Carroll