>> So after decades of Catholic terrorism in Britain the Protestants > >> have started acting up because they feel the Catholics had > >> succeeded in getting what they wanted through terrorism... > >> Religion needs to be banned. > >> > > > > Actually, the lines in Belfast are more along the lines of > > *families*. Sure, religious affiliation may have something to do > > with it -- but you're raised to be loyal first to your family and > > then to whatever affiliation your family is aligned with. > > > There are two sides - Protestants and Catholics - engaged in > 'sectarian violence'. What's not about religion?
Actually the trouble now in Northern Ireland is nothing to do with Religion, Nationalist vs Loyalist but it is about Power. Various different news sources will paint varying pictures and reasons for the "Troubles Mark II" but it has always been about power and control. For decades the north was divided equally between both extremists, but now that the nationalist have not been involved in any "direct action" as they say and that the IRA have now publicly (who knows what crimes they are committing privately if any) aligned themselves with peaceful political methods through Sinn Fein the loyalist base are feeling nervious and the criminals who now sit in control of the two main loyalist factions: "Reporters face death threats Henry McDonald, Ireland editor Sunday March 30, 2003 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,925681,00.html Reporters from the Irish tabloid the Sunday World are enduring their second weekend under loyalist death threats and a boycott from the Ulster Defence Association. Shopkeepers in Protestant areas of Northern Ireland have been warned not to stock the paper, while van drivers have been bullied into not distributing copies in loyalist redoubts. UDA gangs have forced shops to put up posters calling on Protestants to boycott the Sunday World - ' or else they will be dealt with'. Jim McDowell, the editor, has been visited twice in the past week by police, who said he and his family were in danger. McDowell described the intimidation campaign as 'the home front against a free press and democracy'. " But Now it is happening again: "http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/040805/sunday_world_faces Sunday World faces renewed threat Published: Thursday, August 4, 2005 By Dominic Ponsford The IRA may have called an end to the "armed struggle" this week but rival Loyalist paramilitaries have renewed a campaign of intimidation against weekly red-top the Sunday World. Newsagents have been threatened, bundles of papers burned and vans intercepted across Northern Ireland. The campaign is apparently in response to the paper's tradition of exposing drug running and gangster-type activities among paramilitary groups. The last time Loyalist paramilitaries targeted the Sunday World was in April 2003, following a series of articles exposing racketeering by members of the paramilitary UDA and UVF." Now please don't tell me that this is about religion, any crowd can be insighted to violence all it takes is a little planning and a very few select people in the crowd pushing them them on, then all of a sudden behind the crowd various weapons are passed out.. Typical herd mentality. The IRA did it in the 70's and 80's and the various fascist movements in the UK and across Europe do this as well. Darwinism at its best! POWER AND CONTROL ( a bit like the free market) Now -- ___________________________________ The pen is mightier than the sword! Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73) Just look what happened in the US in 2000 Bush wins with the Pen of a Judge! Alex Gogan (1968- gulp!) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.23/99 - Release Date: 12/09/2005 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
