Reply #115: Paisley, though, has this kind of czar-like power to start pogroms [View All]

[Ken Burch]

by launching a new round of anti-Papist invective.

He doesn't have formal connections to Prod paras, but he does have a way of saying things that tends to give paras their cue to launch more mayhem.

It was Paisley who provoked the violent confrontations at Drumcree where the Orangemen were insisting on forcing an angry, triumphalist march through a Catholic neighborhood, fighting for the meaningless principle that "We have the right to walk the King's highway."
(As if they were just taking a quiet stroll after supper.)

And Paisley was the one who led the violent resistance to Sunningdale in the 1970's. Had Sunningdale been allowed to stay in place, thirty more years of misery would have been avoided.

Everytime Paisley says "we will have peace, but not peace at any price" you can assume that Catholics will die.