Tuesday 30 June 2009

Who fired?

The BBC are reporting a gun attack on a house in Ballymena, inhabited by a member of the local community association who had earlier tried to remind the mindless flag-erecters of an existing agreement on flags:

"A number of shots have been fired at a house in the Rossdale area of Ballymena, County Antrim. It happened at about 0030 BST on Tuesday. A man and woman in the house at the time were not injured. DUP councillor John Carson, who condemned the attack, said there had been tensions in the area over flags. He said it was the second attack on the property, which belongs to a member of a local community association. Councillor Carson said there had been a "deal done on flags last year" that they would be put up on 1 July and taken down on 31 August. However, he said this year someone had "taken it upon themselves" to put flags on every lamppost in the development. He added that the woman whose home was attacked approached those putting up the flags."

That is already bad – very bad. But it raises a particularly interesting question: whose gun fired the shots?

The Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando confirmed that they had completed the process of rendering their arms and ammunition totally, and irreversibly, beyond use on Sunday. The UDA, although only 'starting to decommission' stated that "there is no place for guns and violence in the new society we are building."

So who fired the shots? Are there other loyalist groups that have slipped under the radar, or is one of the loyalist groups (as so often) lying. The identities of the flag-erecters, and their friends, are presumably well-known both locally and to the police, so it shouldn't be too hard to find out.

Yet again the close relationship between the unionist/loyalist flag fetishists and loyalist terrorists is displayed. And they wonder why normal people are repelled by their flags?

10 comments:

hoboroad said...

Orange Volunteers Loyalist Volunteer Force Ulster Resistance to name just three!

hoboroad said...

Is Keith Harbinson any relation to Mark Harbinson?

Horseman said...

I strongly doubt it, hoboroad - it surely would have come out at the time of the Dromore byelection. Anyway, its a fairly common name.

hoboroad said...

Yeah your right Horseman it's not like the former Sylvia Paisley now Hermon is anyway related to Big Ian my mistake.

Anonymous said...

Horseman,

A lot of people watching, (notice counter) but not a lot blogging. Any theories? or is it just those usual noseys who are not willing to commit?

They should sh1t or get off the pot!

Its all about dialogue, is it not!

MPG .....

Horseman said...

MPG,

Although there are very few comments here from unionists, I know that a number do read the blog (it gets an occasional reference on Torystory, for instance). Maybe they simply like to keep an eye on it, but don't like to actually join in. That's a pity, because the transitions that the future will bring will be much easier to manage if they've been addressed in advance.

For the time being, though, the unionist ostrich keeps its head under the ground.

hoboroad said...

Ian Paisley juniors little outburst yesterday after being let off with a £5,000 fine for not disclosing his source to the Billy Wright inquiry is this the end of the political road for the Paisley family?Peter Robinson can not have been pleased he has enough on his plate with out this.Is civil war about to break out in the DUP between the Paisley family and the Robinson family with the Dodds family somewhere in the middle?

hoboroad said...

Horseman

In the book The Crack A Belfast year by Sally Belfarge she mentions seeing a poster hanging in UDA HQ it had written on it Keep Ulster British and it was donated by the Young Conservatives!

hoboroad said...

What about Jeffrey Donaldson's taste in Hotel pay per view movies?£555 he has had to pay back to the fees office for his movie watching!According to the Daily Telegraph.

hoboroad said...

Little Jeffrey's quite the little Barry Norman is he not? Watching 68 movies at the premium rate nothing but the best for Jeffrey maybe the DUP should have made him Culture Minister in the recent Ministerial Reshuffle as he seems to actually know something about the subject!