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Subject: Re: Documentation about ethical radicalism in North Ireland
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:33:11 GMT


In article <>,
"P A MagLOCHLAINN" <> wrote:

PA, this is where you referred to the Orange Order, look for the phrase

"They can correctly be labelled fascists for a number of reasons,
mainly in that they refuse entirely to see the Orange point of view...".

Sean



> Dear Sen,
>
> Thank you for your comment on my response to the German query. I
don't want
> to quarrel with you, but I honestly think that we who live in Northern
> Ireland have slightly closer and more realistic experience of the
various
> paramilitary organisations, both so-called "republican" (in reality,
> extremist Irish nationalists) and so-called "loyalist" (in reality,
> extremist British nationalists), than anyone who has not had to
endure their
> gang warfare.
>
> I see no reason to "throw in" any other terms, Sen - I chose my words
> carefully. The term "marxist" applies more to the Official IRA than
to the
> Provisionals, and the term "criminals" clearly better to the INLA,
who shoot
> people in the head merely because they refuse them drink in a bar
when they
> are disgustingly drunk.
>
> Just because others may have used the term "green fascists" of the
> Provisional IRA does not invalidate it. They can correctly be
labelled
> fascists for a number of reasons, mainly in that they refuse entirely
to see
> the Orange point of view, insisting that Messrs Paisley etc are
really Irish
> deep down (whether they like it or not), and will one day waken up to
this
> fact. Everything, they believe, will be rosy once the "Brits get
out".
> They completely close their minds to the dictum of James Molyneux, a
former
> unionist leader: "WE are the Brits - and we're not getting out!"
>
> I have too often seen at close hand how the Provisional IRA and their
> friends use all the traditional fascist bully-boy tactics to shout
everyone
> else down in Belfast, pack meetings, etc. Sen, I'm sorry to insist,
but I
> know exactly what I'm talking about.
>
> Yours, still as cordially as ever, Sen,
>
> P A
> in Belfast
> ========
> Sean Mac Lochlainn wrote in message
> <>...
> =====
> >"P A MagLOCHLAINN" <> wrote:
> >>......green fascists of the Provisional IRA.........
> =====
> >PLATITUDE ALERT......PLATITUDE ALERT......
> >Why hold back? How about throwing in "....marxist, fascist,
criminals...."
> for good measure.
> >Sean
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