Northern Ireland 2125?

Again desperate to get your cudgel out and ignore the central point.

Being mature enough not to allow folk hijack flags.

You obviously are not able ti do that.

The Irish security forces killed some IRA / republican activists too. I suppose you will condemn them too and say the government here was pretending to be paragons of democracy and in line with the President of the party you follow, you will say the only true army of Ireland during the troubles was the IRA, the military wing of your beloved party?

Trouble is, not many people will think they were very democratic. And a questionable attitude towards human rights. But you condemn the British government, the Irish government, and you have consistently failed to condemn the paramilitaries, saying there was no alternative etc.

Let us remember that early in the conflict, Sinn Féin, under Adams' influence, held an abstentionist policy, refusing to take seats in the Irish parliament (Oireachtas) because they did not recognise the legitimacy of the partitioned 26-county Irish state.

Bryson, if you read anything he says, is actually quite moderate by comparison when you look at the extremist tripe from An Claíomh Solais. This sort of propaganda reminds me of schooldays, when some of the teachers used to reel of this propaganda to make people hate the protestants, thus making it easier to eliminate them: Quote:

They are, according to the best records of the time, descended from "the worst scum of both countries", referring to England and Scotland, when they were run off their own land and driven into the North of Ireland by anglos who saw it as killing two birds with one stone.There they began a generations, centuries-long campaign of genocide, murder, rape, theft and slaughter against their own close kin, targeting in particular women and children, that put the most grotesque ambitions of the Third Reich to shame.

In some quarters, "It is so ingrained, it has become normalised."

It is a shame some people cannot just see people as people.

Nationalism/republicanism’s supremacist mindset is out of control,

Jamie, like other belligerent Unionists/Loyalists is simply unable to handle the out-workings of democracy and equality at work.
'Please, we must have our veto back' is the goal, which he won't achieve.

* The 'court' refused to order the flag be taken down. The rush to lawfare was a bust on that front. The rush to lawfare re: the Irish language also probably a bust too. Just a delaying tactic that will give the bigot blogger a little of what he craves -attention.

Jamie gets his way and local government grinds to a standstill, what a win for the UK Union advocates.

"It is a shame some people cannot just see people as people"

Spot on Francis! Couldn't agree more.

My point was that Bryson's "they and them" language is remarkably similar to that from the post linked by the original poster who seems to be a bit of a Bryson fan.

Bryson justs says how some Republicans are indoctrinated to hate Protestants / people from the PUL community in N.I. Not an unreasonable observation when you have Republican extremists like "An Cliamh Solais", who have 79,000 followers on facebook alone, making comments about the Protestants that they indulge in a "campaign of genocide, murder, rape, theft and slaughter against their own close kin, targeting in particular women and children, that put the most grotesque ambitions of the Third Reich to shame".

In other news today, I see a headline in the Irish Times there are discrepancies in SF's accounts:

It was you who quoted Bryson without giving a link - see post 4240. Where did you get that supposed quote from?

In contrast, there was a link for the quote from "An Cliamh Solais".

I gave a link also for the article in todays paper about SF "forgetting" to include property in their accounts recently.

N.B. In case "An Cliamh Solais" never noticed, not all people from the PUL community are the same, just as people from the CRN community are not the same.

You obviously do not know what it means to be a follower.

Being a follower on Facebook means you've chosen to see someone's public posts in your News Feed. Downcow just quoted from the "An Cliamh Solais" facebook page. He or she did not say they were a follower. I sometimes in the past have looked at the facebook page of Gerry Adams or Mary Lou McD or Emma or Bryson or whoever but I do not follow any of them.

Now stop diverting.

Here's the link Francis : https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/jamie-bryson-parades-like-irish-language-signs-should-only-need-15-support-in-community-NCIRB5BXHRCCLELJL5NHPZDBVI/

He spouted this sectarian bile just a few months ago (April 2025).

At no point does he use the word "some" in fact he emphasises that he is speaking about all the Taigs as he says: "all aspects of nationalism/republicanism, even the supposedly ‘softer’ manifestations thereof"

Do you still think that it's "not an unreasonable observation"?

The 'likes' thing doesn't even stack up.

Majority of the 'likes' Claíomh gets is on far right style immigration posts. The rest of their dribble hardly get into double figures.

Now who in NI would be closely associated with far right views on immigration only Bryson's party de jour - the TUV. TUV would be more likely to be 'liking' posts on that page than anyone else. 😁

P.S. If SF have broken rules on declaring property they should face the same sanctions as others who have done the same thing.

BTW, if you are serious about being informed then you will be following many accounts you do not agree with.

If you are randomly 'having a look' at pages then you aren't really serious about using the algorithms properly.

The 'RUC' that had to have a name change/reorganisation because of it's 'legacy'.

Rubbish. There are hundreds of politicians and many extremist groups. Some post half a dozen times a day or more. If you followed all of them, and had all of them going in to your newsfeed and you somehow attempted to read all of the posts from all politicians and all facebook political groups, I think you would find even you who is on boards 60 or 80 hours per week would not have time to read them all.

You are missing the point anyway.

Bryson justs says how some Republicans are indoctrinated to hate Protestants / people from the PUL community in N.I. As noted before, not an unreasonable observation when you have Republican extremists like "An Cliamh Solais", who have 79,000 followers on facebook alone, making comments about the Protestants that they indulge in a (quote) "campaign of genocide, murder, rape, theft and slaughter against their own close kin, targeting in particular women and children, that put the most grotesque ambitions of the Third Reich to shame".

As a southerner I always trusted the RUC. Always were polite and efficient with me. I trusted them more than I trusted Telecom Eireann anyway. I was waiting a year to get a fixed line phone off them back in the eighties. Then they changed their name to Eircom and swindled half the country out of their savings. Now known as Eir.

Now stop diverting.