Monday 15 July 2013

Orange Parades

The Orange Parades in Northern Ireland commemorate the defeat of the Catholic totalitarian king James II by William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne, a pivotal event not only in Irish history, but also in English history, and indeed world history, as William's victory ensured the triumph of the Glorious Revolution. England could then go forth as a free and Protestant nation, a representative nation where the executive was accountable to the people, a dynamic nation whose enterprise created the Industrial Revolution and whose inventions created the modern world.
Unfortunately, in Bureaucratic Britain, the Protestant religion is an enemy of those in power. In the past fifty years the identity of England as free, Protestant and representative has been destroyed by those who love slavery.
The Protestants of Northern Ireland cling on to a culture that the English have turned their backs on.
The ban on the march through the Ardoyne is yet another attack by the Totalitarians on the rights of a free people. Here are a couple of quotes;
Edward Stevenson, grand master of the Orange Lodge said:
'Republicans are engaging in a cultural war to erase all symbols of Britishness. The shameful decision to strip down the Union flag from Belfast City Hall, following on from the outrageous naming of a children's play park in Newry after an IRA terrorist, are just some examples of the 'shared future' envisaged by Sinn Fein'
Nelson McCausland of the Democratic Unionist Party stated that the situation was 'all so predictable and inevitable and we knew it was going to happen'  'It's important that we set ourselves an immediate task. Let's get rid of the Parades Commission. Their decisions are illogical, they're incoherent, they're damaging and they send out a clear message. Last year dissident republicans in Ardoyne shot a police officer. They brought guns on to the streets, they burned vehicles, they threw petrol bombs at the police and they were rewarded. Now that's not good government.'

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