Monthly Archives: June 2012

TRANQUILITY

As the 1st of July fast approaches many of us will be involved in remembrance services for those who died at the Somme on that day in 1916.  Luckily the vast majority of us will never know the horrors those men endured.  This short poem tries to capture the fears the men would have experienced in the moments leading up to going over the top of the trenches that morning.

 

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DELUDED…AND HANGING ON BY THEIR FINGER NAILS

DELUDED— AND CLINGING ON BY THEIR FINGER NAILS

 

 An interesting article in yesterday Irish News—and that is something you very rarely say about his weekly column—from the top class apologist for Sinn Fein, Jimmy Gibney.  Not so genial Jim is commenting on the previous days staged events when his former Commander in Chief Martin McGuiness shook the hand of his reigning Monarch, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

 

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BLOODY HANDS OF EVIL

As an ex-Royal Ulster Rifleman, Ex-Royal Irish Ranger, ex-Belfast Fireman, and ex-Loyalist Political Prisoner, I am totally disgusted with  this latest act of treachery by this cowardly British Government.

 

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KINGS OF DUPLICITY

KINGS OF DUPLICITY

 

So—the day has come and gone and to my knowledge no earth shattering events have occurred.  Nothing has transpired that should make us re-evaluate the worth of a paltry handshake.  The build up—at least the media led version—had us believe that this was the handshake that would eclipse all other handshakes.

 

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The message on the Hill

THE MESSAGE ON THE HILL

If you live in the west, north and south parts of Belfast there is a good chance you viewed with your own eyes the ‘Eriu is our Queen’ message placed on the Black Mountain. When I seen it my immediate thought was ‘who the …. is Eriu’? Ancient history is not my strongest point but I’m sure the majority of West Belfastwere saying the same. A friend of mine sent a brief resume of good old Eriu – an interesting story and one I would like to investigate further. But the real message wasn’t about who is their Queen, but rather it is who is not their Queen. Fair enough. Each to their own.

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A Letter From A Former Prisoner

Working Class Leadership

Many Ulster Volunteer prisoners emerged from the Loyalist Compounds of Long Kesh in the seventies after serving long prison sentences, they were totally unrepentant and determined to carry on the fight, to defend the right of the Majority to decide their own future despite the united efforts of the IRA campaign of indiscriminate slaughter, and an underhanded policy of peace by appeasement, that was being orchestrated secretly behind closed doors, by a deviously treacherous British Government. 

 

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ALL THE WORLD HATES UNIONISTS

ALL THE WORLD HATES UNIONISTS

Robin Aitken, a former BBC journalist has described Ulster’s unionists as one of the ‘despised tribes’, alongside eurosceptics, Christian fundamentalists and other ‘right wingers’. He believes we deserve this title because we are ‘outside the progressive concensus’! Of course, demonising us helps to define that consensus – it’s a win/win for the ‘Unionist bashers’.

Recently, two unionist figures issued statements which, initially, seemed to be another example of the type of thinking negatively associated with Unionism – we are sectarian, bigoted, Old Testament burn in hell type of guys who are intolerant of foreigners in general and republicans/ catholics/ nationalists in particular.

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What A Farce

WHAT A FARCE

 

Once again we have the republican movement acting like the great peace makers of this country and the ‘peace process’ over the question of whether Martin McGuiness will shake the hand of the Queen.I implore those who are reading this, do not be fooled by the republican P.R. machine which has been working on this situation for the past number of weeks or months.

 

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Violent Dissident Threat

In his latest exclusive article for Long Kesh Insideout, former Blanket journalist and Radical Unionist political commentator, DR JOHN COULTER, assesses the threat which the violent vigilante group, Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD),  could have on the Loyalist community.

 

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Out of the Quagmire William Mitchell

Out of the Quaqmire – William Mitchell

 

The current political DUP/Sinn Fein ‘carve up’ at Stormont seems to be considerably frustrating for us all.  Decisions can’t be made and devolution can’t function properly whilst those who govern continue to appease each other with equal ‘slices of the cake’.  We need look no further than the recent Girdwood fiasco.  Although such behaviour is historically routine to the ordinary voter, we were promised so much more with the formation of the Executive Assembly and the Peace Process.  Just recently, I was listening to some music and the words of this verse struck a chord with me.

 

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