Monday
12Jan2009
as ever!!!
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 03:48PM I went down into the City Centre, partly to post a letter, because the Labour Party has closed all the local sub-post offices, and partly to visit the library.
Spattered, and I mean literally, across the base of the Market Place, were a sorry bunch of ragheads, jihadis, clowns and apologists for Hamas terror, all chanting and waving placards labelled Israeli War Crimes, etc., etc. and so on!
The lone copper asked me politely to move on as I was the source of all the noise and conflict! Why?
Because I bought a pad from the stationers, scrawled 'The Jews are the greatest' on one side of a page, and HAMAS = TERROR on t'other side, and started waving it in front of the rent-a-mob bunch.
Can't understand these guys! Can't they take a joke?
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Reader Comments (29)
Isn't freedom of speech grand? On;y seems to apply to certain groups though, and I am never in one of those groups.
Freedom of movement and indeed speech has for a considerable time been denied to various groups and like you, I am never in those groups.
A few years ago, dress in my Sunday best, I attempted to enter the front door of the Richmond Centre in Londonderry. It was the second Saturday in August and that day the Apprentice Boys' of Derry were parading through the city.....splattered in front of the Centre were the toerags of Republicans and other assorted scum, the majority dressed in the green and white hoops of the Glasgow Tims. I was stopped by an Inspector of the PSNI. I asked why and he told me that I couldn't walk through the mob, so I ask him to move them. He couldn't due to the Human rights !! I asked about my rights and he informed me I could cross the road, go around the left side of the Diamond, around the other side and down Shipquay Street and go into the centre via the other entrance. My Human Rights didn't matter but the scumbags who were there to provoke trouble were molycoddled and nothing done with them. Yes, it is time this human rights melarkey was stamped on and the quicker the better.
William - wearing your Sunday Best on a Saturday? Blasphemy!
"Yes, it is time this human rights melarkey was stamped on and the quicker the better."
William,
I agree. The Apprentice Boys and their assorted toerags shouldn't be allowed to cause trouble and march around Derry pissing people off. Bloody human rights eh!
>>he informed me I could cross the road, go around the left side of the Diamond, around the other side and down<<
With all those years of experience behind them, the PSNI obviously know a rowdie when they see one.
"the toerags of Republicans and other assorted scum, the majority dressed in the green and white hoops of the Glasgow Tims."
Only from the mouth of a (We are the innocent victims) Unionist.
Keep banging you big drum!
Can I ask a question - do the Apprentice Boys of Derry get in trouble with other unionists for calling it Derry?
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Poor William should know he is a minority, a Unionist on a Unionist website.
Im always amused by the reaction of Nationalists when Unionists march through towns and villages which have a Nationalist majority like Londonderry. Do compare this with when Nationalists march through majority Unionist towns and villages like the AOH have done for donkeys years in places like Kilkeel and Desertmartin hardly a whimper. Go to any field on the 12th and whose running the food stalls and making a nice profit, our Catholic friends!
Scouse
Kilkeel is not a majority Unionist town. And the number of "Apprentice boys of Derry" who actually come from Derry is probably in single fugures. The fact that the Nationalist people of Derry by consent are magnanimous enough to allow their fellow Irishmen to parade is a credit to them.
Mahons
>>do the Apprentice Boys of Derry get in trouble with other unionists for calling it Derry?<<
My pal who is a Glesca Hun and an apprentice boy(he is 41) as opposed to me Glesca Tim on occasion deliberately over uses the alien sounding Londonderry. When I can be bothered I pose just that exact question, I am still waiting for an answer.
I beleive the Apprentice Boys of Derry's name stems from the time when the city was called Derry before it got it's London prefix and they just stuck with the name I may be wrong but that's what I think is the case.
Colm - I suppose that is why 41 year old men call themselves boys.
Tony you are wrong! Kilkeel is majority Protestant/Unionist and in particular the route taken through the centre of Kilkeel by the Nationalist bands. Sinn Fein activist Martin Cunningham complained about Catholics not being welcome there???
Hardly likely Catholics would not be welcome where they were a majority as you claim?
Mahons
The don't get into trouble for calling it that and apart from it being their title, they don't call the city that officially.
I have wondered myself why they use Derry in their title. But any time I wondered there was never an Apprentice boy to hand.
I knew that it is called The Maiden City (and do so myself sometimes) but I only recently discovered that it got that name because it's walls were never breached. :o)
Oh Aileen
There's so much I could make out of that last comment but modesty forbids....
Sad.
Aileen - I like Slash City best, it has a sense of humor in it.
A very long time ago, when still a schoolboy, we had been on holiday to my Grandad's farm in County Down, and we were being driven back through Belfast on the morning of the 12th July. Now you must understand that I was ten years old at the time, and couldn't spell politics or confrontation, never mind guess what those two words meant; so you can maybe imagine my amazement when we saw three, four or five policemen standing together on every city street corner as we drove past. I had never seen so many coppers in my entire life; so I asked my Uncle Barney why all the policemen?
His reply was classic, "Well, wee Michael, the police are there so that people cannot get too upset with each other while some others are walking down the roads!"
Colm
I admire your forbearance.
I have to say I was always glad that I didn't live in Maidenhead. What were they thinking off with that one???
Mahons I think Maiden City is rather amusing although I tend to use Stroke city. Strokes are nicer than slashes :o)
>>"Well, wee Michael, the police are there so that people cannot get too upset with each other while some others are walking down the roads!"<<
No marks for guessing what side he was on!
>>I have to say I was always glad that I didn't live in Maidenhead.<<
I vaguely remember one of the old Carry On films about the Middle Ages (Carry On Up the Chastity Belt probably) where the king is returning from France with his new - and reluctant bride - and because of snowfall on the roads he - in his carriage with his new Queen - spends the whole bloody night trying to pass through Maidenhead!
The scum Tims are on this website as well as polluting the area around the Richmond Centre in Londonderry each 12th August.
Is this another Tony from the one in Glasgow, or an angry imposter?
Tony, Kilkeel is actually a majority unionist town although it is in a majority nationalist area.
My point about the "toerag" Apprentice Boys was that William seemed to be picking and choosing his complaints about "human rights" (I presume he meant "civil rights"!).
No I did'nt mean 'Civil rights', I meant Human Rights, as the Police Inspector cited the 'Human Rights Act' as the reason he could move the toerags to enable me to enter the Richmond Centre. My Human rights were secondary to those who were there to incite trouble...some of them 10 / 12 years of age and dressed in the green and white hooped Tim top.
Sorry....error.....should read '....couldn't move....'
"My Human rights were secondary to those who were there to incite trouble"
Tsk...bloody Apprentice Boys.
William complaining about human rights whilst in the same breath describing a garment as 'tim'.
Delightful stuff.
Don't forget " Tony " ( "The scum Tims are on this website" )
His rights are violated every second of the day.