They said Loyalists were coming in from the cold
How do we feel about today’s declaration?
Take with a large pinch of salt?
They said it took 18 months to bring this to the boil.
Did it?
Or was it quick- fried in a couple of weeks?
Since Mr Cameron insisted the new Triumvirate would investigate all paramilitary associations?
What do Loyalists want?
” a three strand ‘wish list’ that includes input into future political talks, an end to historic prosecutions and additional community jobs and facilities.”
Comments:
1) They will have input into future political talk as soon as people in NI vote for them. So far they haven’t.
2) Since they are asking for an end to historic prosecutions, Loyalists mustn’t be happy about the mountains of evidence of collusion between them and Crown forces in the murder of Catholics that are coming to public attention – in the EU no less.
3) Money, money, money
“Loyal to the half-crown, not the crown” said older generations in Belfast.
“Pay them enough and they’ll go away” say people today.
“No thanks” says Winston Irvine, Loyalist spokesman
https://audioboom.com/boos/3684440-are-loyalist-paramilitaries-getting-ready-to-leave-the-stage-bbcnolan
He also mentioned the poor standard of education in loyalist youth.
We know what causes that.
Young people in Loyalist communities told us.
Reflections:
The Ulster Volunteer Force, Ulster Defence Association and Red Hand Commando still exist in some shape and form.
They are illegal, proscribed organizations.
Queries: Why weren’t they arrested at the press conference?
Where’s the Unionist expression of horror at their existence?
What happens next ?
The proof of the pudding
will be the benchmarks set up to monitor
*an exit strategy
*decommissioning
*distancing from crimes like drug dealing, extortion,sectarianism, racism, burning and intimidating people out of their homes, murder, violence and so on.
Comment: Renouncing sectarianism in all its variegated manifestations and desisting from house burning/intimidation will be the hardest steps for Loyalists
Query: Coffee anyone?
http://www.derryjournal.com/news/issue-of-collusion-a-top-priority-for-sinn-fein-mep-1-7003096
http://sandus.org/2013/06/22/tsampa-de-riz-a-national-dish/
http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/why-does-wooden-spoon-stop-pasta-from-boiling-over-0151541/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3019881/posts
http://www.culinaryschools.org/clipart/pasta/
http://www.americas-table.com/food/chocolate-sphere/
http://front.moveon.org/elizabethwarrenquotes/
http://ryortho.com/2013/02/cappuccino-nuvasive-lanx-and-the-defectors/
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/chocolate-pecan-pudding-cakes
I’ll pass on the coffee; make sure you throw a pinch of salt (or something more substantial) over your shoulder; these ones aren’t going anywhere. Funny as hell, or at least it would be if it weren’t true. Thanks.
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large packet of salt to hand!!
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Has anyone in the UUP or the DUP made any comments about all these terrorist leaders of illegal organisations , apparently involved in criminality on a community-wide scale ,meeting in one room and no arrests being made ? Where are Arlene , Peter , Edwin, Jeffrey and the rest with their musings?
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Silence is golden Paddy!! More to the point what do rank and file members of the various Unionist/loyalist paramilitary groupings think? What does the public know? – except that the UDA published a now “unauthorized” statement that they weren’t going away, you know!!!
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