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After
reading about the Unionist Councillors' walkout after
the motion was passed to remove all the flags from
the Limavady Borough Council offices, I'm wondering
what the"D"in DUP actually stands for. I
thought it stood for Democratic, but I'm sure Mr (Bullets
across the border) Paisley's definition of it differs
a good bit from the Oxford English Dictionary's.
Democracy:
the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized
group can make decisions binding on the whole group
[syn: {majority rule}]
For
Mr Paisley's version, substitute for the word "organized",
the abbreviation W.A.S.P( White Anglo Saxon Protestant)
and in DUP for Democratic, read Dictatorial.
Which
leads me to the statement by Sinn Fein's candidate
for East Derry that her party is determined to "break
through the sectarian glass ceiling" and you
have to wonder just how they propose to do that.
Do
they intend to appeal to the better natures of the
loyalist fraternities in Coleraine? A place where
the nationalist population have been abused and terrorised
for the last 40 years and where the Union flag has
flown above the local Borough Council offices for
about the same amount of time. I mean, if Unionist
Councillors are prepared to walk out for the removal
of flags in Limavady, I'm wondering what their reaction
would be to anyone opposing Coleraine Council's policy
of re-housing Catholic families from what they consider
to be "flashpoint" areas.
Well,
I suppose from the Sinn Fein candidate's point of
view, we can all live in hope but I personally will
not be holding my breath.
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