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smallbeasts and i were talking about the English perception of the marching season. How stupid so-called "loyalists" could be, lack of loyality to the British often consisted of continuing demonstrations each year, an upsurge in fires and violence..how is
that meant to curry the favour of the British public ?

How has my perception of the marching season been informed by moving to England ? Well, i

always thought it was a petty and juvenile thing but Oxford is like living in some far flung

future, so I can now report that yes, many Ulster folk behave like little asbo cases.

Thats a fact, and allow me to demonstrate. (Don't feel you have to click on these links, theyre just there as a proof trail. The points I am about making will become evident, just try to keep hold.)

Yesterdays news stories state that this is the most

peaceful Twelfth fortnight : 35 years and the first

time the Army havent been deployed. Well, they came out

to erect barricades to stop the damage of properties.

Good for them. Maybe they arent just a bunch of hired

killers after all. I may have to radically revise my

opinion. Amicably, the Ardoyne area saw a reduction to

a single drum beat, and was not made available to

followers of the march. Even better ! Of course, it

could have been done four decades ago before folk felt

the need to scream and shout and cry and bleed at a

bunch of drunken yobs going over the front of their

houses.

All worked out fine except for a few wee tangents on

"the peaceful twelfth". This time protestants hammered

on the windows of their buses as they passed a waiting crowd of

nationalist protestors who responded by hurling a

handful of bottles and fireworks. (The Scotsman)

Londonderry car-hijacking and arsonry (Seattle News)

So I forgive David McKittrick for his sensationalist angle,Should the Orange March be cancelled ? (The Independent) Especially when he brings to my attention that the government are giving the Orange Order £100,000 to appoint a development officer to turn Orangefest into an all-inclusive event for the little kiddies and so the Nationalists will be able to afford to hold hands with the Protestants and they can all dance around in a field of crimson and barley stalks and wave white tissues and say we love you world ! We love you !

Its a lovely concept, but wehhh, i think theres been a mix up with the payments. If they were sincere about it shouldnt they be giving the funds to a body outside the Orange Order, like the fund set aside for The Arts Council, and allow them to co-ordinate payment for expenses with the Order ? I'm having trouble visualising some Loyalist training class, funds for built headphones to be attached to the instruments, purchase of phony off-licenses were the paramilitaries replace all the cider bottles with coloured water.


Yes, what has so obviously happened is that theres been a mix-up with the payments. The Arts Council were given £3.3 million to cover up the paramilitary murals that the Orangemens supporters created (Belfast Today) (Read my observations of these here) What really should have happened is that the money should have been less than that and paid to the Orangemen to clean up themselves. I'm thinking minimum wage, or y'know, voluntary (big smiles), Perhaps, the Arts Council could pay for a summer school were the loyalist painters are taught better techniques, how to behave as artists, the magic of art, made to watch some star trek or y'know, listen to some meditation bells with scented candles.

YOU SEE THERE REALLY HAS BEEN A MIX-UP WITH THE PAYMENTSBecause what happened is that the Government somehow ooh er um forgot to give the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre £66,000. Y'see when they were allocating funds they werent looking at how people feel, only what people do. And survivors of rape very rarely say things like, "You can't charge me this fine for hopping on the train without paying, I just got raped ! I have to get home !"
"How dare Sinn Fein rape me ? They will never sit in government ! I lost many of my friends and I cannot tell my parents and theres not a day goes by when the thought of a beautiful relationship desecrated doesn't cause my eyes to water. Theres not an Orangeman or any man alive who didnt buckle at the knees that day. No surrender !"
"We have made progresses, we have made advances, it was a pity we had to be raped to do it, now i think we should start seeing the respect we deserve. I think the best thing would be for us all to move forward, and get our rape crisis centre back"
Because survivors of rape carry it inside. Where they buckled at the knees, were they lost people they loved and want it to be different and lost their innocence irrevocably. Were they found their strength and wished for a world they didnt need to.
Sources : http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=698223
http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=75048&pt=n
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=698245

An orange hall is destroyed in arson while somewhere in the province on the eleventh the fire and rescue service was called out every 41 seconds. The hall was used for community functions and could have therefore been used as a crisis counselling centre. I'm sick of the firefighters being treated like shit. FIRE REPRODUCES.

Ok yes, this is brilliant.

I want to get this scanned as soon as its done. Anyone local want to volunteer to scan it for me ?

The Twelfth today, and I pulled a late shift. Not sure what I want to talk about. Adrian got me thinking about the English perception of the marches, and as I been living in Britian for whom the Loyalist cause pledges its eternal allegiance, maybe i should write about that.

Or if anyone has any questions....

Gonna work on a new userpic tonight that I hope will turn out as well as Don't Get Lost. Will be putting on Staplefest ! (in association with Caption and Shadowsnake tonight in The Mitre with Dan Hartwell (he doesnt have a livejournal). As I'll not be back to late, teensy tale told to me by Rhoda Watson of the Belfast Writers Network.

The Eleventh Night, the green square of every council estate in Protestant and some non-Protestant Ulster burns. I reckon Mattress by mattress, wooden crate by wooden crate, we rebuild ! But these moolahs they have other ideas. There are horror stories. These yahoos burn anything thats flammable. The common fare isnt so cultured as to indulge in Buckfast, 3 litre bottles of White Lightning. Its a 24 crate of Harp thing. So theyre there, swaggering around, cursing and trying to master something that passes for music : the council estate kids poking the 30ft mount with bits of stick and being told off by some bare chested muscular tattoo-ridden one. The sixbellies are at it too. Its a pulled down tight baseball cap carnival and the silly girls who live inside their tracksuits. The hardliners demonstrating who they fought this year and how they did it, whos a dead man, whos a fucking cunt, aye aye and alright tommy alright jaunty don't get yer knees done and seeya next week. One of these idiots, a staunch UVF proclaimer, takes a milk bottle filled with petrol and casts it into the flames. Its intercepted by a lamp-post. It bounces off the lamp-post. It catches the guys thick trousers and he's rolling around on the grass trying to get the stink out and trying not to catch fire. I guess what comes around goes around.

"I condemn sectarianism, violence, discrimination and hatred of any kind."

YEAH ??? WELL I CONDEMN MURDER, RAPE, ASSAULT AND FUCKING MASS GENOCIDE AND DUMBING DOWN OF THE POPULACE YOU EMOTIONALLY STERILE POOSAY !!!

i had to get that one in. thanks for the sweet words.

My Sordid Past : The Orange Order



Hi interwebs,

Heres confession from my sordid past. Fourteen,

committed to a writing career through series of

brainwashing reality tunnels to collect 'experience' @

total immersion. A relief I never made a solid wage as

a writer for those years, unbelievably shallow and

horridly indoctrinated. Drifted to Free Presbyterian

sector...not quite the definition of "free". Think Jack

Chick, anti-catholicism as mission statement (all well

and good but offered alternatives sucked too) F***

Presbyterianism is Ian Paisley's region. A kid I went

to school with, his F*** Presbyterianism preacher

father were chummy with him. So, where most kids engage

in art projects, or steal car badges, I joined the

Junior Orange Order. Not that much different really

from Boy Scouts or Girl Guides. They played

run-the-hall games and soccer and capture the flag. I

went on a march with them and one little zitball put a

stinkbomb in my sash holder. We got to the finish

point, a grass land and i smacked him in the face bad a

few times. He had it coming. Two or three balding

bespectabled blustering chubby elderlies, Ulster knows

the sort, broke us up. Well, they didnt care about

starting the fight. Snatched our sashes right off us,

it was an affront you see. A dishonour and a disgrace.

This was years before I heard of the photos of Paisley

standing at the border chatting with fellows in black

balaclavas. Anyone got a link to that one ?

After eighteen months, I was asked if I wanted to join

the Orange Order. ( Read more... )

Today, I'm going to post an excerpt from Chapter Two of Order Out of Chasos by Paul Joseph Watson

The Real IRA: MI5

For more than 30 years, Catholics and Protestants have fought bitterly over whether Northern Ireland should belong to Ireland or to Britain. The conflict has left 3,600 people dead on both sides and more than 30,000 injured. There was hope in 1998, when the landmark Good Friday peace agreement was reached. The agreement created a government in which both Protestant and Catholic representatives could share power in Northern Ireland. But tensions continued to grow between Catholics and Protestants, especially after the IRA refused to destroy or surrender its weapons.

The Real IRA is a hard line group of between 70 and 170 members dedicated to an armed campaign aimed at driving the British out of Ireland. Its members see themselves as Irish republican purists, accusing the Provisional IRA of selling short republican ideals.

Since its founding in 1997, the Real IRA has been fully infiltrated by British intelligence - MI5. The first double agent to infiltrate the Real IRA on behalf of the British government was David Gary Rupert, an elusive loner born in Madrid, New York State. Rupert first surfaced at an Irish Freedom Committee meeting in Chicago in 1997. Eye Spy Magazine reported,

He was a well-known figure at meetings and became the talk of the IFC. Many believed he had contacts that wended their way to the very top of organisations like Sinn Fein and the IRA.

MI5 had successfully tracked US fund-raising efforts to certain US citizens and groups through bank accounts. But they needed more information. Together with the FBI and Irish security police, they spoke to Mr Rupert who agreed to work for them as a double agent. It was a major coup.
( Read more... )

I got home safely last night. I wanted to tell you, livejournal. But I got locked out. I had to wake Dave up at three thirty. He was very mad. I thought about what to do for an hour. I ttried to get here, but it appeared my computer had come down with a nasty virus. And after switching it off and on for the sixth time in eighteen hours, its working fine.
I brought some photos of Jeremy's Emu, Badger Shane, Richard in Shoredtich comics and Zombie Attack. These shall approach.

After some sensible stalking I found the _belfastcommunity it has a nice photo. I'm tempted to post my rantings about an alternate twelfth community, but i shouldnt just stumble into town, not just like a sacred cow...should i ?

http://alternate12th.livejournal.com/

Didn't join underscore-less belfast perhaps posing as but not quite a community because its news items, marginalised, and i get my collated news that actually means something and offers optimism unpolluted by globalist hands FROM OTHER SOURCES..

Northern Ireland is much too interbred, and i mean that genuinely, in the hope of acceptance of my outreach to raise you people to other and greater things. I mean that, in love.

I also suspect this is thirty years of built up repression I have begun to release at an incredible rate. Friends will let me know if I;m going a bit mad.
Still, look beyond yourselves. Its a massive world that needs you to participate. You are the secret reserve army, like the narns, only with ninja skills. (Come to think of it, werent all the narns either ninjas or kickboxers ?)

David Icke tracked a demon constellation to the point directly above Lough Neagh. Discuss this and other matters in the comments section below.

Oh yeah, and of course, belated mentions to Michael's Myspace Poetry Page. If this is the guy who can get Bangors Wolseys of all places moving into Poetry Night zone. Yeah, what the fuck ? Give him his own website. Shut down the usual Myspace opening blinders and have a look round. Including the drugs video.

This is a parade in July in Bangor, Northern Ireland
This is a parade in July in Oxford, England

I see a few differences.

I dont really have an active amount of livejournalists or regular readers to my blog from Northern ireland. Not to my knowledge, and despite living there thirty years.

I did get one who linked to a feature on how Northern Ireland is an official race hate capital of Europe, which makes a horrific kinda sense because in most of my time there i met very few people from other nations. Except for a few hot food staff. Theres an old saying around about Ulsterfolk seeing a negro person walking down the street, and all presing themselves against the windows because its such a rare sight.

In the fortnight of bonfires and pipebands with drumming more hideous and lowbrow than any clubber in a car park, those nearby can either put up, shut up, or get out. For those in the outer areas, its a few days worth of shared perception. That being, don't go to such and such a town, don't go to that housing estate regardless of committments to friendship or work. Unless yer prepared to be heavily delayed by rail, car and foot, set upon by drunken yob mobs and risking damage to the ears

And thats just one fortnight of suffering. Northern Ireland, although many of the bred folk living there don't realise it, is beset by limitations of body and mind. Well, this week I aim to get a bit of revengevolution. Yes revengevolution. I'm devoting my lj to alternate 12th celebrations including lifting the lid on some of the cockroaches, and dispelling the myths of the ohso secret orange order. Thank goodness I wasnt raised catholic - their politicians and religious leaders are even more knee deep in filth than I am about to expose.

I may even stay in from the pub on Tuesday.

I'm interested in hearing for any and all Northern Ireland LJers and those holding alternate 12th celebrations. Post in the comments as you wish.