The involvement of Sinn Fein in so called Residents Groups
opposing Orange Parades has been denounced as a continuing
part of the campaign of Ethnic Cleansing against the Protestant
people of Ulster.
Speaking to Orangemen in Portadown last night, George Patton,
Executive Officer of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, said
that R.T.E.'s Prime Time Programme had injected a degree of
reality into the debate on parades.
He went on to say that "the orchestrated attempt to
prevent peaceful parades is simply part of the process to
ensure that any vestige of our faith or culture is removed
from parts of this country.
The authorities who have in the past ignored claims by the
Orange Order that the illegal protests against parades were
Sinn Fein orchestrated must now accept their responsibilities
and ensure that freedom of assembly and the right to process
is upheld.
In terms of the situation in Portadown the local District
Lodge have acted responsibly at all times and will continue
to do so. They have given much in the past with regard to
their parades and there is no more to give. The authorities
must ensure their traditional route from public worship at
Drumcree Parish Church".
At the same Meting a spokesman for County Armagh Grand Lodge
stated that Sinn Fein's presence in the Residents Groups exposed
the so called consent principle espoused by these groups.
It is simply part of the propaganda war where a glib phrase
is used by people who do not apply it themselves. Where was
the consent for Tullyvallen, Kingsmills, Darkley .......?
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