PRC-UTE
26th July 2004, 09:26
Sinn Fein has betray its own base of support in a very dramatic way and this is an interesting issue. At the very least, the Irish Republican Movement has served as a defense force for vulnerable nationalist communities.
What this ultimately teachs us is that narrow republicanism will always bring about accomodation with the ruling class and thus their sectarian and racist policies.
SF-Protecting the Brits!
by MM Monday, Jul 12 2004, 9:46pm
Sectarian march being forced throught nationalist area by armed RUC/Brits/SF!!
I am shocked! I am absolutely stunned!
I am so angry at what I witnessed just now. I AM REPUBLICAN, and I just witnessed former comrades punch and beat residents off the streets and off Brits in my own community. People/residents, who like myself objected to a sectarian march being forced through nationalist area by armed RUC/Brits/SF!!
I just want to ask, What the fuck is happening when I just witnessed Provies attacking members of their own community from getting stuck into bastards who had us under siege all day!
Is this what we have come to, beating people for the sake seats at Stormont. What I saw today has chance the way in which I see my life and the politics that I thought I had in common with fellow republicans. I feel sick and angry, I am in shock and in disbelief. I turn to a neighbour on the way who asked me "did I really see what happened there?"
I have to say that I felt the question running through my head.
Am I the enemy now? Does SF/Provies see me and the community that I belong to as the enemy for opposing a sectarian march and all that comes in its path?
If that is what it takes to have a few seats in power then I'm afraid these people no longer represent me!!
MM
Occupied North Belfast
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Astounding! IRA men shield Brit soldiers from rioters
By Jim Dee/ Special to the Herald
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Protestant march through a Catholic area of North Belfast triggered sharp rioting yesterday before members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army intervened to stop violence from spiraling out of control. No serious injuries were reported.
In scenes unimaginable before the 11-year-old Irish peace process began, top IRA men rushed to rescue a dozen besieged British soldiers from a stick-wielding mob of pro-Irish nationalists.
Many of the IRA men, along with top officials of the Sinn Fein party, endured heavy verbal and physical abuse from the angry crowd as they struggled to quell the intermittent rioting.
The trouble began when police and soldiers swamped the Catholic Ardoyne district to shepherd through a Protestant Orange Order march. Heavily armored jeeps and 200 yards of 12-foot metal barriers were used to create a secure corridor through which Orangemen marched.
The march, commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne that helped secure the Protestant ascendancy to the British throne, was OK'd by the British-appointed Parades Commission. But Orange supporters were forbidden from accompanying marchers up the contested stretch of road.
Nonetheless, about five minutes after 60 Orangemen were rushed through the steel corridor, about 100 of their supporters were also guided through by riot police - a clear breach of the commission's restrictions. That's when angry nationalists, who'd already traded brief barrages of rocks and bottles with Orange backers on the other side of the wall, exploded.
``How you stop all this is simple: Stop anti-Catholic marches going through Catholic areas,'' Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly, a former IRA prisoner who was hit in the face by a nationalist while trying to shield soldiers from attacks, told the Herald after the rioting had subsided.
What this ultimately teachs us is that narrow republicanism will always bring about accomodation with the ruling class and thus their sectarian and racist policies.
SF-Protecting the Brits!
by MM Monday, Jul 12 2004, 9:46pm
Sectarian march being forced throught nationalist area by armed RUC/Brits/SF!!
I am shocked! I am absolutely stunned!
I am so angry at what I witnessed just now. I AM REPUBLICAN, and I just witnessed former comrades punch and beat residents off the streets and off Brits in my own community. People/residents, who like myself objected to a sectarian march being forced through nationalist area by armed RUC/Brits/SF!!
I just want to ask, What the fuck is happening when I just witnessed Provies attacking members of their own community from getting stuck into bastards who had us under siege all day!
Is this what we have come to, beating people for the sake seats at Stormont. What I saw today has chance the way in which I see my life and the politics that I thought I had in common with fellow republicans. I feel sick and angry, I am in shock and in disbelief. I turn to a neighbour on the way who asked me "did I really see what happened there?"
I have to say that I felt the question running through my head.
Am I the enemy now? Does SF/Provies see me and the community that I belong to as the enemy for opposing a sectarian march and all that comes in its path?
If that is what it takes to have a few seats in power then I'm afraid these people no longer represent me!!
MM
Occupied North Belfast
+++++++++++++++
Thread continues at:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story...se#comment81654 (http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65938&condense_comments=false#comment81654)
Astounding! IRA men shield Brit soldiers from rioters
By Jim Dee/ Special to the Herald
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Protestant march through a Catholic area of North Belfast triggered sharp rioting yesterday before members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army intervened to stop violence from spiraling out of control. No serious injuries were reported.
In scenes unimaginable before the 11-year-old Irish peace process began, top IRA men rushed to rescue a dozen besieged British soldiers from a stick-wielding mob of pro-Irish nationalists.
Many of the IRA men, along with top officials of the Sinn Fein party, endured heavy verbal and physical abuse from the angry crowd as they struggled to quell the intermittent rioting.
The trouble began when police and soldiers swamped the Catholic Ardoyne district to shepherd through a Protestant Orange Order march. Heavily armored jeeps and 200 yards of 12-foot metal barriers were used to create a secure corridor through which Orangemen marched.
The march, commemorating the 1690 Battle of the Boyne that helped secure the Protestant ascendancy to the British throne, was OK'd by the British-appointed Parades Commission. But Orange supporters were forbidden from accompanying marchers up the contested stretch of road.
Nonetheless, about five minutes after 60 Orangemen were rushed through the steel corridor, about 100 of their supporters were also guided through by riot police - a clear breach of the commission's restrictions. That's when angry nationalists, who'd already traded brief barrages of rocks and bottles with Orange backers on the other side of the wall, exploded.
``How you stop all this is simple: Stop anti-Catholic marches going through Catholic areas,'' Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly, a former IRA prisoner who was hit in the face by a nationalist while trying to shield soldiers from attacks, told the Herald after the rioting had subsided.