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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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12 Sep 2005 09:12:21 PM |
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Christianity in Ireland Today |
The good news is that while all this was going on, no boys were
being raped by the Christian priests and such.
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September 11, 2005
Riots Erupt Over Disputed Belfast Parade
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:57 a.m. ET
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Protestant extremists threw homemade
grenades, gasoline bombs and other makeshift weapons Saturday and at least
a dozen police and two civilians were wounded in the latest fury over a
restricted Belfast parade.
Protestants clashed with police, British troops and Catholic crowds in
several parts of Belfast after authorities blocked the Orange Order -- the
territory's major Protestant brotherhood -- from parading past the
hard-line Catholic end of disputed Springfield Road.
At least six officers were injured by flames and shrapnel from homemade
grenades and gasoline-filled bottles on the nearby North Circular Road.
Officers on the North Circular Road took cover behind their armored
vehicles after hearing bursts of automatic gunfire. In east Belfast, police
said another six officers suffered mostly superficial injuries as they kept
apart rival Catholic and Protestant mobs.
In rioting that ran from Saturday afternoon until early Sunday, police
equipped with body armor, shields and flame-retardant boiler suits repelled
the attackers with plastic bullets and mobile water cannons.
The mayhem spread at nightfall to Ballyclare and Newtownabbey, two
predominantly Protestant suburbs of Belfast. Several buildings on Belfast's
northern outskirts were set on fire.
Police said members of two outlawed organizations, the Ulster Defense
Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force, were involved in the Protestant
violence. Both groups are supposed to be observing cease-fires in support
of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
But the commander of Northern Ireland's police force, Chief Constable Hugh
Orde, said Orange Order leaders had inspired the violence. Trouble flared
at several major roads and intersections where Orange leaders had
instructed members and supporters to stage sit-down protests.
''The Orange Order must bear substantial responsibility for this. They
publicly called people on to the streets. I think if you do that, you
cannot then abdicate responsibility,'' Orde said.
On the Shankill Road, more than 1,000 people confronted police units, who
responded with plastic-bullet volleys and water jets. A helicopter's
spotlight overhead illuminated the mayhem. At least two civilians were
injured.
Protestant mobs also blocked several key roads to protest the authorities'
decision to bar Orangemen from marching on most of the Springfield Road, a
predominantly Catholic area with one isolated Protestant section. Police
instead forced the Orangemen to march through a derelict industrial site to
their Orange lodge, which overlooks the road.
British army engineers erected truck-mounted canvas screens in hopes of
blocking Catholics' view of the parade. But several hundred Catholics
gathered on the road, and some stood on their rooftops to observe the
drum-thumping procession. Both sides shouted vulgar abuse at each other.
Each summer, Northern Ireland endures inflamed communal tensions because of
annual mass demonstrations by the Orange Order, a legal organization that
was instrumental in founding Northern Ireland as a predominantly Protestant
state 85 years ago.
Over the past decade, Catholic hard-liners led by Sinn Fein, the Irish
Republican Army-linked party, have violently opposed Orange parades that
traditionally passed near or through Catholic areas.
Northern Ireland's so-called ''marching season'' this year last turned
violent on July 12, when several hundred Catholics attacked police with
grenades, gasoline bombs and other weapons after an Orange parade passed
the IRA power base of Ardoyne in north Belfast. About 100 officers and 10
civilians were wounded.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Christianity in Ireland Today |
19 Sep 2005 03:26:56 PM |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:12:21 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) wrote:
The good news is that while all this was going on, no boys were
being raped by the Christian priests and such.
-=-
September 11, 2005
Riots Erupt Over Disputed Belfast Parade
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:57 a.m. ET
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Protestant extremists threw homemade
grenades, gasoline bombs and other makeshift weapons Saturday and at least
a dozen police and two civilians were wounded in the latest fury over a
restricted Belfast parade.
Stupid fuckers, the lot of them. [/urination]
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Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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