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 Tuesday April 08, 2003 16:48 by Joe Murphy doire98 at yahoo dot com
 Pat Finucance Centre Update - Pro-war demonstrators attacked a number of business premises and individuals during a pro-Bush and pro-war rally in Belfast city centre last night. Two Catholic pubs and a taxi company were targeted and passers-by were assaulted by a group who had marched from the loyalist Shankill area through the largely nationalist Castle St and King St area of the city. Passing vehicles were also attacked. The 300 strong pro Bush and pro war rally had been organised by a senior member of the Unionist party, Sir John Gorman, a former British soldier. Ian Paisley, leader of the DUP, was pictured at the rally standing alongside a woman carrying a placard which bore the slogan, Bagdad, Basra, Crossmaglen? The apparent implication of the placard was to urge the British Army to ‘deal’ with republican areas of the north (Crossmaglen) in a similar way to Basra. The British Army require no such prompting since it has murdered innocent civilians here in Ireland for years and there is ample evidence that it is doing the same in Iraq. Meanwhile a small group of loyalists, including members of the UDA, waved British flags and chanted anti-Catholic and pro war slogans on the fringes of the large anti-war protest at Hillsborough Castle organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the anti-war movement. There are also reports of UDA members and individuals associated with Combat 18 ‘trawling’ Belfast in cars looking for anti-war protesters who could be attacked. Combat 18 is an extreme right wing British fascist organisation with links to loyalist paramilitaries. The number 1and 8 in the alphabet refer to the initials AH or Adolf Hitler. Yesterday extreme loyalist websites were urging attacks on anti-war protesters. Today (Tuesday) at approximately 1.45 pm riot police arrested a number of demonstrators who had sat down on one lane of the roadway outside Belfast city hall during a trade union rally against the presence of US President George Bush in Ireland. Protesters have complained about the behaviour of some of the riot police. In particular several witnesses have told the PFC that one officer dragged a young woman off the roadway by the hair. The number of the officer was 6277 according to a number of sources. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Yes, it's terrible to see people chanting pro-war slogans and going on demonstrations. The anti-war movement should act now and call upon the police to suppress these protesters, who have obviously been infiltrated by violent and/or hate-mongering elements.
Nothing new from the PFC, who only believe in the Catholic right to march...
well there you are then, society's true divide. The peaceful and the violent. love and hate. life and death.
A march in defence of Mans right to bludgeon his fellow man to death so he can take his mammoth fur from him.
..those combat 18 thugs will be the first to go.
The DUP under the protection of LVF scumbags, organised the PRO WAR rally. LVF arseholes subsequently ran amok after it, unable to contain their hatred of catholics, targeting catholic pubs and taxis. Where were the heavy handed so called impartial PSNI pigs then?. It seems the PSNI think it's ok to manhandle republicans and anti war protesters, but then put on the kid gloves for their DUP/LVF cohorts.
DUP stallwarts such as Big Ian, entertained their select well heeled clique of 'never on a sunday' golden boy bible churners. Those in attendence included holy C&W gospel crooner Rev William McCrea, who entertained the baying crowd by reminescing about having shared a platform in Portadown with his dearly beloved model christian chums Billy 'liar' Wright and Mark 'swinger' Fulton. Also in attendence were pillar of society, former North Down DUP member Bertie Baxter, out on bail, on charges of sexually abusing his own children. 'Larrd Jaysus kkkrist be praised, God bless George dumbwar bush, in his holy war against heathen and papist savages'. 'laard Bless the LVF and keep us safe from papists and commie scum'.'laard bless George Bush, and my ranch in the USA'.
Why in a democracy are these people allowed to march? We should have attacked them.