Peter Hitchens would have been apoplectic had the I.R.A. been responsible for the violent and disgraceful behaviour of the loyalist thugs and riffraff in Belfast on the 12th July. They were not allowed to march, in their pathetically, puerile fashion, through the Nationalist area, which they do for the sole purpose of being provocative and stirring up old hatreds.
The indigenous Irish do not like to be reminded that they once lived in a united Ireland until the jackboot and yoke were thrust upon them. That, however, is another story, which I fully intend to tell before much longer. Regretfully, I return to the loyalists, and I am sure that Mr. Hitchens thinks that thwarting them in any way whatsoever, is another dreadful surrender to those awful Irish who have the temerity to think they should have sovereignty of their own country, over and above the descendants of Scottish and English settlers, who were sent in their tens of thousands to the north of Ireland, where there was the most resistance to English occupation and oppression.
Elizabeth the 1st declared the settlers would ‘act as a thorn in the side of the Irish’. It seems to have worked very successfully but what a shameful, hate-filled legacy and look at the murder and mayhem it has caused over six hundred years, and continues to cause today. In respect of those ugly scenes caused by some of the loyalists where many policemen were injured, I was wondering what the voluble and vociferous Mr. Hitchens would have to say. The answer to that is quite simply, nothing, absolutely nothing. The silence was deafening. I find the lack of integrity and impartiality deeply shocking.
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