Two Orange Halls were attacked in North Antrim at the weekend, Tullaghans Hall, which is situated in a rural area near the village of Dunloy (100% nationalist), and Granagh Independent Hall, which is situated in a rural area outside the neighbouring village of Rasharkin (80% nationalist). In the latter attack a perimeter wall was knocked over by someone using a tractor as a battering ram.
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Jim Allister intends to stand in the forthcoming Westminster election in the North Antrim constituency. It is not known yet whether his opponent will be Rev Ian Paisley or his son Ian Paisley Jnr. Allister is already campaigning, albeit unofficially. His latest press release is a classic piece of Taig-bating that would shame George Wallace, the former governor of Arkansas who famously vowed never to be 'out-n*ggered' in an election.
In his statement Allister shifts the scene of the battering-ram attack from rural Granagh Hall to the Orange Hall on Rasharkin's main street (which has suffered a number of graffiti attacks). He then goes on to slyly implicate the entire nationalist / Catholic community of Rasharkin in a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Protestants.
Jim Allister
“The quantity and nature of the serial attacks on Rasharkin Orange Hall are such that they could not be taking place without local community support. Using a tractor to knock down the wall and trying to break down the door is not a random or inconspicuous act. Rather, it is a very public manifestation of cultural hatred from which local residents do not apparently dissent as none are exercised to report such to the police. The conclusion that this Sinn Fein controlled community does not want a Prod about the place is inescapable."
Insidious stuff! I wonder who he learned it from!!



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