Two Belfast Provo-isms and some great truths learned from contemporaries and the BBC

 "If you feel instinctively that a judge or jury is against you from the outset of a case,it is because your solicitor or barrister has tipped them off before the case commenced that you were either a dubious sort of person or of bad character...."

To which the reply is,"If you call a spade a spade,you should be made to use one."

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"If psychiatric measures are invoked against you,it is because your family and a relative want to regulate your behaviour or access to means of communication...."

Not so,in our times with consciousness-altering drugs openly on sale without prescription,you have fallen into a trap and been poisoned by a police agent for MI 5 or the American Government. Those people are two-a-penny since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The East German police were the only people who knew their old female 'tricks' learned from the Middle Ages.

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Some great truths:

Firstly,if Protestants want to be properly treated by Catholics,they should vote for the Official Unionists and not the DUP or armed gangs regardless of where they reside.

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Secondly,if Catholics want to be properly treated by the British Government,they should vote Sinn Fein in the Westminster and Stormont Assembly elections unless they are indebted to a political representative by virtue of long-standing personal and family links, particularly so if that representative believes in human rights and the prosecution of British soldiers and armed criminals.

Dissident republicans? Vigilantees?

 The CIRA are only an armed gang at this stage of history as are the INLA. Both gangs are active participants in the drugs trade and the suborning of false witnesses to undermine the rule of law and to disrupt the court system..

The Catholic Church will always be a champion of the poor and misbegotten....

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If you want to get anything done in the North of Ireland,you have to go to the Orange Order because they run the North....

In England and Scotland,if you want to get anything done,you have to go to a tradesman or businessman. They run those countries.

In the South,if you want to get anything done,you have to go to a politician. They run the South...

In the US and Canada,if you want to get anything done, you must approach a member of the intelligentsia,be they journalists or teachers or medical profession...

"Anyone who voted for Sinn Fein candidates after...

 "...May 1981 or gave them money for their activities was living in Dreamland or enchanted by stories of a past long gone and hadn't their head properly screwed on at all. They're only a nuisance and most of the Provos are no different.."

Today,some naive fools think that Sinn Fein's  and the IRA's ringleaders and their fellow travellers of the past can be rescued from prescient obscurity and peace be enthroned for ever.

Sadly, history moves ever onward and the former leaders both groups are doomed to obscurity by media fiat and changing social conditions and the economic facts of life.

Why,so?

The only constant is change. Time and life move ever onward and leave burning wrecks behind. In England,the Liberal Democrats were the first to be tried in the heat of internal wrangling and now it is the Conservative rich-boys who have torn their party to shreds. In the 1980's, Labour tore itself to shreds until the NEC expelled the Trotskyites around the Liverpool pamphleteers.