The emasculation and effective destruction of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary by a weak and gutless Government is the ultimate
insult to the memory of hundreds of gallant police officers
who paid the supreme sacrifice in defending all of the people
of Northern Ireland, particularly over the past 30 years.
Government acceptance of the flawed report of the Patten
Commission on policing in Northern Ireland is tragically designed
to appease those who conducted and fully supported this vicious
murder campaign against the RUC.
Once again, the inalienable rights of the decent law-abiding
community have atrociously been abandoned in an attempt to
satisfy the pernicious designs of militant Irish republicanism
- a narrow, unrepresentative ideology which has absolutely
no vestige for the concept of an ordered and stable society
in this country.
The implementation of the Patten Commission proposals is
quite clearly yet another tragic milestone emanating from
the Belfast Agreement, and those who readily signed up to
this transparently-Green tinged document, and fully supported
it in the May, 1998 referendum, must now be deeply reflecting
on the folly of their actions.
The road that has been chartered from the Belfast Agreement
has obviously taken a wrong turning, with disastrous results
for our Province and people.
The Orange Institution, frequently warned of the grave dangers
inherent in the Belfast Agreement, to unionism and the established
institutions that enjoy the confidence of the greater number
of people in Northern Ireland.
This Agreement contained the terms of reference and the desired
objectives for the Commission on policing in Northern Ireland.
At this highly critical time in the history of Northern Ireland,
the damning report that has now been presented and accepted
will be a major set-back to necessary confidence-building
measures in our community, and cause irreparable damage to
the standing and operational capacity of our sole law-enforcement
agency.
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