Post by Wasp on Jan 2, 2008 22:09:58 GMT
Here is some bits of an article I read.
What is genocide and ethnic cleansing?
"Acts committed with an intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group"; and it consists of, among other cruelties, "killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction."
The message is stark: Protestants are not wanted in Ireland - though a 2% Protestant minority is useful for "show" purposes. There have been recent attempts to gloss over the decline of Protestants in Southern Ireland and produce cosmetic explanations, sanitised of terms such as "discrimination", "burned out" or the more emotive "ethnic cleansing".
When recently the Public Record Office in Belfast's Balmoral Avenue opened secret papers for the 1920s for inspection, they contained numerous reports of Protestants, even professional people like doctors and solicitors, moving into Northern Ireland having been boycotted out of the Irish Free State. Thus history repeats itself as Ireland's Roman Catholics attempt to rid Ireland of "heretics".
Far from creating in his part of the island a genuinely fair and just pluralist society, in which members of minority religions could rear their families, walk the streets in dignity, and in the words of the Proclamation, “enjoy freedom of religious expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of information, equal rights, and equal opportunities,” de Valera gave Rome a free hand under a crude, unfeeling system of separate development and religious apartheid which would ensure that the Irish republic would become a Catholic state for a Catholic people.
Over a period of years, the slow inexorable inevitable consequence of this policy was the systematic progressive depopulation of the new Irish state of its Protestant people. Justifying the sacking of a properly appointed librarian in Mayo, because, though highly qualified, she was a Protestant, de Valera argued in June 1930: "I say the people of Mayo in a county where I think 98% of the population is Catholic are justified in insisting on a Catholic librarian." He went on to widen the issue indeed, and asserted: "a Protestant doctor ought not to be appointed as a dispensary doctor in a mainly Catholic area."
In effect, ‘Protestants need not apply’ signs went up all over the Republic. Incidentally, it is interesting to note the make-up of the Mayo Library Committee. It consisted of a Catholic bishop, five Catholic priests, a Christian Brother, a Protestant rector and four laymen. The voting, ten to two for sacking the Protestant.
Dr Heslinga, in his seminal work “The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide,” states, "James's Plantation of Ulster made a permanent change in the face of Ireland in the sense that it moved a whole new population - can I say a whole new nation - into part of Ireland." Irish nationalists, on the other hand, hold that all of the peoples on the island are Irish, and those who deny their Irishness are deviants bought off by the British, or colonists who have no right to be in Ireland in the first place. Such deviants and colonists are to be driven out. Boycotting is one means of driving deviants and colonists out of Ireland. As the Provisional IRA expresses it, "Brits out!"
As the British state is secretly engaged in ceding Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland, Britain tolerates the humiliations inflicted on Ulster's diminishing Protestant population as part of the price of an overall strategy which uses violence to promote peaceful change, i.e. Irish unification by stealth. The Ulster Protestants are the victims of Provisional IRA terrorism and of an elaborate strategy to enforce their assimilation into an Irish Nationalist culture. There is an almost total media black-out in respect of this example of anachronistic racism within Western Europe. This issue has never been debated in the British House of Commons or the European Parliament. At this moment huge sums of money are flowing into Irish Republican and Nationalist areas to the almost complete exclusion and disadvantage of the people who are being assaulted.
Given the silence of the Government of the Republic of Ireland in respect of the physical ethnic cleansing of Protestants by IRA terror, and now the silent ethnic cleansing of Protestants by boycotting, it is obvious that though the government of the Republic covets Northern Ireland, it does not regard the whole population of Northern Ireland equally as potential future citizens, but adopts a discriminatory prejudiced and sectarian approach to the population in Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland supports the interests of Roman Catholic and Nationalist people but turns a blind eye or ignores the sufferings of those who refuse to embrace an Irish Nationalist ideology.
Rev. Ian Paisley, an MP for a constituency where the boycotting is taking place called for "an unambiguous statement from the Roman Catholic Church and the SDLP on this new IRA strategy of intimidation against Protestants" (Belfast Telegraph 27th September 1996). In the News Letter of the same date, Ian Paisley made an important point: "Even Protestants are being intimidated because they feel they're being marked for going into shops." In the same edition of the Northern Ireland paper, Alan Field, a spokesman for a pro-Union pressure group stated that "many businesses had seen their profits plummet by 60 - 70% in the past 12 weeks." Mr Field called for a financial rescue package.
Two cases of intimidation that came to light involved Roman Catholics who continued to shop in Protestant establishments. In the first case, a woman bought a shirt from a Protestant business, and when this became known, three Roman Catholic women beat her up. In another case, a Roman Catholic neighbour spent a few pounds on groceries in a Protestant store, but on her return home from her shopping trip she received a threatening telephone call. As in Nazi Germany, her every move had been monitored!
A discussion between two Protestant victims of the boycott from different areas in the west of Ulster highlighted the crucial issues. One victim, who had survived two shootings at the hands of the IRA, remarked: "Protestants are supporting me very well, but the fact is that 70% of my trade is with Roman Catholic people; we've got to wean Roman Catholics back from Sinn Fein." The other victim responded by saying: "The Roman Catholics know exactly what they are doing; this is a softening-up process to weaken Protestant communities while the IRA recruit and rearm for the next onslaught - the Roman Catholics are not going to come back, you know! Those who believe different are under a great delusion."
This frustrated Protestant, whose small business lost £4,000 in the first month, spoke of Protestant school children spat upon by Roman Catholics on their way to and from school near Bellaghy, of Protestants moving out, and of these boycotts being organised in rural Roman Catholic parochial halls, the locality of which he went on to identify. This victim spoke of a Sinn Fein leaflet which had circulated in the Armagh area, which specifically named Protestant premises which were to be boycotted. Then in confirmation of all that had gone before, the victim produced a sinister hand-bill which had been circulated to both the few Protestants and the very many Roman Catholics in the town of Coalisland. The leaflet carried no signature and claimed that thirty Orangemen and a small band consisting of some elderly musicians and young children had "intimidated" the people of Coalisland, 97.5% of whom are Roman Catholics.
This specious document, full of half-truths and innuendo, bore all the characteristics of Sinn Fein, and set the scene for the vicious intimidation of Protestants and Orangemen, which took place on the Twelfth of July. After the police were forced to intervene to rescue the Protestants, and the local Church of Ireland minister was bombarded with abuse and humiliated in the street in broad daylight by a republican mob, Rev. Tomey said, "Today Coalisland has ceased to exist for the Protestant people!" It was a telling remark.
Another eyewitness described the gutted ruins of the Church of Ireland Christ Church in Londonderry. The eyewitness said that the burned out shell of the church had such slogans daubed upon it as "boycott" and "get out of Derry". Needless to say, the local Church of Ireland minister, maintaining the lie of good community relations in Ulster, asserted that the attack on the Protestant church was not sectarian! Yet another message on the smouldering ruins of his church was stark: "Prods out."
One anonymous writer to the letters columns of the Belfast Telegraph had asked, “Following attacks on Protestant homes, churches, halls and businesses, not to mention the organised campaign against Protestant shops and parades, I would like to ask Irish nationalists where do Protestants and loyalists fit in the new Ireland?”
What is genocide and ethnic cleansing?
"Acts committed with an intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group"; and it consists of, among other cruelties, "killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction."
The message is stark: Protestants are not wanted in Ireland - though a 2% Protestant minority is useful for "show" purposes. There have been recent attempts to gloss over the decline of Protestants in Southern Ireland and produce cosmetic explanations, sanitised of terms such as "discrimination", "burned out" or the more emotive "ethnic cleansing".
When recently the Public Record Office in Belfast's Balmoral Avenue opened secret papers for the 1920s for inspection, they contained numerous reports of Protestants, even professional people like doctors and solicitors, moving into Northern Ireland having been boycotted out of the Irish Free State. Thus history repeats itself as Ireland's Roman Catholics attempt to rid Ireland of "heretics".
Far from creating in his part of the island a genuinely fair and just pluralist society, in which members of minority religions could rear their families, walk the streets in dignity, and in the words of the Proclamation, “enjoy freedom of religious expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of information, equal rights, and equal opportunities,” de Valera gave Rome a free hand under a crude, unfeeling system of separate development and religious apartheid which would ensure that the Irish republic would become a Catholic state for a Catholic people.
Over a period of years, the slow inexorable inevitable consequence of this policy was the systematic progressive depopulation of the new Irish state of its Protestant people. Justifying the sacking of a properly appointed librarian in Mayo, because, though highly qualified, she was a Protestant, de Valera argued in June 1930: "I say the people of Mayo in a county where I think 98% of the population is Catholic are justified in insisting on a Catholic librarian." He went on to widen the issue indeed, and asserted: "a Protestant doctor ought not to be appointed as a dispensary doctor in a mainly Catholic area."
In effect, ‘Protestants need not apply’ signs went up all over the Republic. Incidentally, it is interesting to note the make-up of the Mayo Library Committee. It consisted of a Catholic bishop, five Catholic priests, a Christian Brother, a Protestant rector and four laymen. The voting, ten to two for sacking the Protestant.
Dr Heslinga, in his seminal work “The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide,” states, "James's Plantation of Ulster made a permanent change in the face of Ireland in the sense that it moved a whole new population - can I say a whole new nation - into part of Ireland." Irish nationalists, on the other hand, hold that all of the peoples on the island are Irish, and those who deny their Irishness are deviants bought off by the British, or colonists who have no right to be in Ireland in the first place. Such deviants and colonists are to be driven out. Boycotting is one means of driving deviants and colonists out of Ireland. As the Provisional IRA expresses it, "Brits out!"
As the British state is secretly engaged in ceding Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland, Britain tolerates the humiliations inflicted on Ulster's diminishing Protestant population as part of the price of an overall strategy which uses violence to promote peaceful change, i.e. Irish unification by stealth. The Ulster Protestants are the victims of Provisional IRA terrorism and of an elaborate strategy to enforce their assimilation into an Irish Nationalist culture. There is an almost total media black-out in respect of this example of anachronistic racism within Western Europe. This issue has never been debated in the British House of Commons or the European Parliament. At this moment huge sums of money are flowing into Irish Republican and Nationalist areas to the almost complete exclusion and disadvantage of the people who are being assaulted.
Given the silence of the Government of the Republic of Ireland in respect of the physical ethnic cleansing of Protestants by IRA terror, and now the silent ethnic cleansing of Protestants by boycotting, it is obvious that though the government of the Republic covets Northern Ireland, it does not regard the whole population of Northern Ireland equally as potential future citizens, but adopts a discriminatory prejudiced and sectarian approach to the population in Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland supports the interests of Roman Catholic and Nationalist people but turns a blind eye or ignores the sufferings of those who refuse to embrace an Irish Nationalist ideology.
Rev. Ian Paisley, an MP for a constituency where the boycotting is taking place called for "an unambiguous statement from the Roman Catholic Church and the SDLP on this new IRA strategy of intimidation against Protestants" (Belfast Telegraph 27th September 1996). In the News Letter of the same date, Ian Paisley made an important point: "Even Protestants are being intimidated because they feel they're being marked for going into shops." In the same edition of the Northern Ireland paper, Alan Field, a spokesman for a pro-Union pressure group stated that "many businesses had seen their profits plummet by 60 - 70% in the past 12 weeks." Mr Field called for a financial rescue package.
Two cases of intimidation that came to light involved Roman Catholics who continued to shop in Protestant establishments. In the first case, a woman bought a shirt from a Protestant business, and when this became known, three Roman Catholic women beat her up. In another case, a Roman Catholic neighbour spent a few pounds on groceries in a Protestant store, but on her return home from her shopping trip she received a threatening telephone call. As in Nazi Germany, her every move had been monitored!
A discussion between two Protestant victims of the boycott from different areas in the west of Ulster highlighted the crucial issues. One victim, who had survived two shootings at the hands of the IRA, remarked: "Protestants are supporting me very well, but the fact is that 70% of my trade is with Roman Catholic people; we've got to wean Roman Catholics back from Sinn Fein." The other victim responded by saying: "The Roman Catholics know exactly what they are doing; this is a softening-up process to weaken Protestant communities while the IRA recruit and rearm for the next onslaught - the Roman Catholics are not going to come back, you know! Those who believe different are under a great delusion."
This frustrated Protestant, whose small business lost £4,000 in the first month, spoke of Protestant school children spat upon by Roman Catholics on their way to and from school near Bellaghy, of Protestants moving out, and of these boycotts being organised in rural Roman Catholic parochial halls, the locality of which he went on to identify. This victim spoke of a Sinn Fein leaflet which had circulated in the Armagh area, which specifically named Protestant premises which were to be boycotted. Then in confirmation of all that had gone before, the victim produced a sinister hand-bill which had been circulated to both the few Protestants and the very many Roman Catholics in the town of Coalisland. The leaflet carried no signature and claimed that thirty Orangemen and a small band consisting of some elderly musicians and young children had "intimidated" the people of Coalisland, 97.5% of whom are Roman Catholics.
This specious document, full of half-truths and innuendo, bore all the characteristics of Sinn Fein, and set the scene for the vicious intimidation of Protestants and Orangemen, which took place on the Twelfth of July. After the police were forced to intervene to rescue the Protestants, and the local Church of Ireland minister was bombarded with abuse and humiliated in the street in broad daylight by a republican mob, Rev. Tomey said, "Today Coalisland has ceased to exist for the Protestant people!" It was a telling remark.
Another eyewitness described the gutted ruins of the Church of Ireland Christ Church in Londonderry. The eyewitness said that the burned out shell of the church had such slogans daubed upon it as "boycott" and "get out of Derry". Needless to say, the local Church of Ireland minister, maintaining the lie of good community relations in Ulster, asserted that the attack on the Protestant church was not sectarian! Yet another message on the smouldering ruins of his church was stark: "Prods out."
One anonymous writer to the letters columns of the Belfast Telegraph had asked, “Following attacks on Protestant homes, churches, halls and businesses, not to mention the organised campaign against Protestant shops and parades, I would like to ask Irish nationalists where do Protestants and loyalists fit in the new Ireland?”
