News Letter - Caution As Loyalists Linked To Publication
The campaign organisers defended the role of certain loyalists, noting that the campaign is committed to totally peaceful and law-abiding principles and it was positive to see those from the UDA or other groups involved in non-violent activities.
“These people have been a bigger blight on the community in east Antrim than the Provos ever were. “I’m not sure I can back the campaign with these people involved.” A Larne reader added:
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It’s much easier to get what you want if your as difficult as possible and start out with threats!
News Letter - DUP Will Fight RIRs Case In Reid Meeting
Mr Donaldson said last night that the DUP will spell out in the starkest terms that the treatment of Ulster’s RIR contingent will have major implications for the wider political picture. “We have already made clear that this is the number one priority for us,” he said, “and if the Government does not do the right thing there will be significant implications for how the peace process moves forward. “We, as a party, will not move without the consent of the unionist community, and how the RIR are dealt with is now a touchstone issue for the unionist community. “It is imperative that the Government grasps this and acts accordingly, or there will be problems.”
I love the word “Troubles”, imagine George Bush talking about the “Troubles” in Iraq. Drinks would be spat across rooms!
BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Visitors to tour NI Troubles jail
Former Crumlin Road jail
The layout was based on Pentonville Prison in London
Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail is to take inmates again next month - but only for the weekend.
The complex, built in the Victorian era, will be open to visitors on 10 and 11 September as part of European Heritage Open Days.
They will be given an hour-long guided tour of the wings in
cluding the infamous hanging cell.
Hi you spell Catholic hi? Fuc Taig l’do
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Petrol bomb attack ‘is sectarian’
A petrol bomb attack on a house near Ballymoney in County Antrim is being treated as sectarian.
The device, thrown between 2230 and 2300 BST, caused extensive damage to the kitchen of the Castle Park house.
The property suffered smoke damage throughout. The owner discovered the damage when he returned home at about 0100 BST on Thursday.
“Initial inquiries suggest that the incident was sectarian,” said a PSNI spokesman.
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News Letter - Sinn Fein Moves On Immigrants
Republicans have been exploring the possibility of tapping into the growing foreign worker vote in order to strengthen their political position, it has been revealed. The Department of Education and Learning estimate there are around 20,000 migrant workers in the Province, based on the 2001 census, but this is likely to have grown significantly in the past four years.
A Home Office spokesman said UK-wide figures for work permit holders from 1993 to 2003 had grown from 48,000 to 119,000. Sinn Fein MLA for Newry and Armagh, Davy Hyland, says his party has already managed to get some migrant workers on the electoral register. “There certainly are large numbers of them here in Newry,” he said. “I passed a house recently where about 50 were having a party and, as they are mostly Catholic, they are more sympathetic to the nationalist outlook. ”
Hey lardass! loose it or loose it
ABC News: Doctor Reprimanded for Calling Patient Fat
Aug. 24, 2005 — Dr. Terry Bennett believes in being honest with his patients, but one woman was so offended about the way he spoke to her about her weight, she filed a complaint with the state Board of Medicine.
The New Hampshire state attorney general launched an investigation, asked Bennett to take a medical education course and admit he has made a mistake.
When their political leaders argue like children how can we expect better from youth
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After another clash when rival loyalist and republican mobs hurled petrol bombs and stones at each other at a notorious north Belfast flashpoint, SDLP assembly member for the area, Alban Maginness called for a end to the nightly ritual.
He said it had to be halted before someone was seriously injured or worse.
He said: “We have a ridiculous situation where two communities are being dictated to by bored children and drunken teenagers.
“In other cities, their anti-social behaviour would be a nuisance but at the sectarian interfaces in Belfast it can kill.”
Putting a stop to the trouble now would require strong political and community leadership, he said.
Pat Robertson is a F’n Nutbar!
Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Television evangelist Pat Robertson told viewers of “The 700 Club” program that the U.S. should kill Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop the Latin American country becoming a “launching pad” for extremism.
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Are they afraid the Republic might invade?
News Letter - Deploying Army To Curb Trouble Is The Wrong Tactic
Introducing troops to patrol Protestant areas of Belfast to counter threats emanating from the ongoing loyalist paramilitary feud may be a necessary step in the short term, considering the obvious lack of police resources to adequately deal with the problem. The experience of 30 years of the Troubles confirms that Army deployment in public order situations, however, is not the best deterrent in upholding the law where criminal offences are committed.
The PSNI has a statutory duty, as the sole law-enforcement agency in Northern Ireland, to ensure that peace reigns and that the law of the land is upheld. The role of the Army is essentially in defending the nation’s borders in frontier regions such as south Armagh and south Fermanagh, not in breaking up urban street disorders or acting as a back-up to criminal investigations by the police.
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