Arlene, are you absolutely sure you want to start listing terrorists and their associations? Because there’s an awful lot of history you seem to be a little forgetful, especially as it comes to orange order
Let’s start with Harold Gracey, he was a senior Portadown Orangeman who wrote to the UVF leader Billy Wright thanking him for his support during Drumcree. Gracey also spotted at a rally supporting Wright. The same Billy Wright whose UVF unit was responsible for the sectarian murder of Michael McGoldrick, remember?
Then there’s Roy Barwise, John Irwin and Alan Clair, Liverpool Orangemen convicted of UVF membership and terrorist-related weapons offences. The courts heard how Orange lodges were used as cover for UVF activities, remember?
Or Mervyn and Paul Armstrong, members of an Antrim Orange lodge, convicted of offences connected to the loyalist Orange Volunteers. Their continued membership became a public controversy, remember?
And while we’re discussing terrorism, perhaps you’d like to address the decades of UVF and UDA flags flying across loyalist communities? The paramilitary murals, commemorations, memorials and annual displays honouring men responsible for murdering innocent Catholics and Protestants?
Remember Joe Bratty and Raymond Elder? UDA members commemorated in loyalist parades, despite their links to some of the most appalling sectarian violence of the Troubles, including the Sean Graham bookmakers massacre.
I stopped at the above names, but there are hundreds, so spare is the cleansing of the sectarian orange order
Every year, communities across the North have had to witness displays celebrating or glorifying loyalist paramilitary organisations. Yet apparently we’re supposed to believe that historical associations with terrorism are a uniquely nationalist problem, well according to you anyways
Now, does any of that make every Orangeman a terrorist? Absolutely not. Nor does every loyalist paramilitary flag represent the Orange Order. But the same basic fairness must apply to the Garvaghy Road residents.
Their rights and legitimate concerns don’t disappear because you can identify convicted republicans associated with their protest.
Surely tou can’t condemn an entire nationalist community by association while conveniently overlooking the documented involvement of individual Orangemen in loyalist terrorism and the decades of public paramilitary glorification within loyalist communities and more importantly, the orange order
If we’re going to have a serious conversation about terrorism, Arlene, then let’s have one that includes the UVF, UDA, LVF and their victims
You don’t get to use the victims of republican violence as a political weapon while treating the victims of loyalist violence as an inconvenient footnote.
Do better
@An_eye_onyou@WokeratiMarty@andyburnham Christians majority of Brits attend church for 3 things christenings weddings & funerals because there is usually a party after
Christians wouldn’t treat ‘others’ this way
Jesus stated that you should treat other people the exact same way you want them to treat you M 7:12, L6:31
@WokeratiMarty@andyburnham Absolutely agree, it's time for the authorities to step in now, not later. This represents a hateful minority of the UK, not all of us. We want peace & harmony flooding our communities not hate & division spread by propagandists & right wingers.
@Nunyabidniz96@TimToksics@andyburnham Nope. If your account says you're in the United States I'll assume you're in the United States and you have no right to comment about immigration issues in the UK because it's none of your business. If you don't like it, don't use a VPN.
Yesterday in Liverpool, far-right racists chanted “Deport the fucking lot” and “Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah?” outside a kebab shop.
This isn’t legitimate protest; it’s racist hate, and no one should have to put up with it in multicultural Britain.
@andyburnham
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Ryan Theaker, 30, a serving Merseyside Police constable.
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161 were arrested under the Terrorism Act for peacefully holding paper signs outside Labour’s conference in Liverpool.
Labour must Lift The Ban on Palestine Action, or face prosecuting thousands of civilians under the Terrorism Act.
Join us tomorrow at 7 in Liverpool Quaker Meeting House for a meeting that will frighten the warmongers and genociders as we join French and Italian trade unionists - NOW including speakers from the striking school students and teachers’ unions .
@BBCr4today@JustinOnWeb Ffs, you don’t have to report ever piece of bullshit they come out with. You should be asking him if farage should resign after the recent poor showing in the by-election and council elections.