TUV Leader Jim Allister Lies About Rasharkin Attack to 'Out-Fenian' DUP

[longmarch]

Are you really this stupid or are you just pretending so as to defend your bigotted ways?

The bonfires of the 12th have everything to do with this particular band parade, which has everything to do with the hundreds of other loyalist parades every year, which has everything to do with OO hatred and violence and bigotry, which has everything to do with institutionalised sectarianism and state-sponsored terrorism, manifested through the war of the last 40 years and every other war inflicted on the Irish by the British over the centuries. It is all linked together, and if you really do not understand that then you are a fool. And it is THIS that people like you like to call your "culture." I have challenged loyalists repeatedly on this site to tell me what this "culture" represents other than these things, and no one has ever answered. This is what you people are all about, and any scheme to portray your interest as something else by hiding behind phrases like "celebration of our culture" are transparent for the disingenuous lie that it is.

And before you reply, I am NOT talking about protestants in general. I could care less about a person's religion. I am talking about the mobs of indoctrinated loyalist fools who subscribe to this whole notion of all the crap I described above as being a culture worth defending through violence.

You really have no problem at all lumping everyone into one basket. You have no problem at linking every different marching band, loyalist group, OO member, supporter, Unionist, Loyalist....etc etc. You stop short of using the term Protestant to steady yourself on that high horse. It has been explained by myself and various others on exactly how the marching season operates, totally independent of any OO involvement but you my friend choose to ignore this. It doesn't fit which your logic or the logic of the Republican so it has to be ignored. Not only ignored but then you have the brass neck to preach to others about ignoring your points.

If we are to link every man and his dog then lets have a look at the Nationalist community in the North. Does this community see fit to vote in their hundereds of thousands for SF? Does SF sit hand in hand with the IRA? Did the IRA not murder thousands during its own 'ethical' campaign for Irish Unity?? What does this say about the poor down trodden Nationalist?? Sure we are the worst of the worst for celebrating a victory over 300 years ago. Yet Nationalists can kick dust in the faces of my community by electing a party with the blood of very recent members of my community. This isn't something that happened over 300 years ago. This is very recent, very raw and very hurtful. Yet we are to just accept it. Of course this is totally acceptable to Nationalist, Republican both north and south. They don't see any issue with it. They feel fit to lambast my community without for one second having a look to see how the glove fits on the other side.

If you continue to tell my community how warped, bigotted, triumphalistic they are without having a look in your own backyard, then its you my friend with the problem.

[st333ve]

You really have no problem at all lumping everyone into one basket. You have no problem at linking every different marching band, loyalist group, OO member, supporter, Unionist, Loyalist....etc etc.

It's a trick we learn from the DUP.
One GAA club named after someone who was involved in the Troubles and the whole organisation should have its funding removed.

We're just looking to apply DUP logic to Unionist organisations for very similar reasons.

[picador]

£26,165.56

That's how much it cost to police the Ballymaconnell parade!

[longmarch]

It's a trick we learn from the DUP.
One GAA club named after someone who was involved in the Troubles and the whole organisation should have its funding removed.

We're just looking to apply DUP logic to Unionist organisations for very similar reasons.

I think there is another thread on that topic. I couldn't care less about the DUP. They don't represent me and have led many of my community up the garden path only to abandon them when it suited their own agenda.

Anyway back to rasharkin

[longmarch]

£26,165.56

That's how much it cost to police the Ballymaconnell parade!

Including poilicing the protest involving many people from outside Rasharkin. Please do not forget costs would be significantly lower if it wasn't for the protest.

[picador]

Had the parade not been so controversial there would have been no protest!

[eoghanacht]

No the majority of band parades costs very little with a few police there to direct traffic. Only when sinn fein decides which village or town is next on the controversial parades list does extra police then need to be brought in. With so many of the recreational rioters in the republican community prepared to travel from all over Northern Ireland for the chance of some action then it becomes a public disorder problem.

they are controversial because they are held in predominantly nationalist areas ffs, march up and down unionists aras as much as yis want, but yis couldn't do that not much fun if u can't remind the "disloyal's" who the boss's are.

[eoghanacht]

Just proves to me that Nationalists don't want a hun about th eplace.

lol, funny. explain why then the republic has had protestant leaders, politicians ,presidents. can't say the same about "norn iron"

[st333ve]

A lot of GAA pitches are named after Protestants, including the Wolfe Tone GAA club which I used to play for.
The Sam Maguire cup is named after a Portestant, so is Casement park.

[mutley]

A lot of GAA pitches are named after Protestants, including the Wolfe Tone GAA club which I used to play for.
The Sam Maguire cup is named after a Portestant, so is Casement park.

That is probabally even more horifying to Unionists, as a Lundy is loathed almost as much as an IRA volunteer