Murder most foul was committed by republicans in Armagh city
when former Reserve R.U.C. Constable Cyril Stewart was cut
down in an hail of bullets in a supermarket car park in front
of his horrified wife.
The civilised world was horror struck by the killing, just
the latest in a litany of crimes committed this year in Northern
Ireland.
But the British Government, deeply committed to the 'peace
process' fell over backwards to assure everyone that the I.R.A.
'cease-fire' was still intact - the main pre-occupation of
a government in collusion with the government of Eire in a
plan to create the conditions and structure which will lead
to an eventual united Ireland.
The I.N.L.A. spared the government even deeper embarrassment
when it admitted the foul killing, even though that will have
cut no ice with decent God-fearing and law-abiding Ulster
people. As far as they are concerned, the I.N.L.A. murderers
come from the same stable as that which has been responsible
for the deaths of thousands of innocent people during the
past 29 years.
This government is so reluctant to take firm security measures
against republicans that it will gloss over almost anything
in its bid to keep the I.R.A. on board in the 'peace process'
even though that terrorist organisation has not handed a single
bullet or piece of semtex over.
It matters not that British people have been murdered and
that British towns - Portadown, Moira, Banbridge, etc. - have
been bombed or been the target of failed attempts to destroy
their centres and the fabric of society.
The government has been so wooed by Dublin and by U.S. President
Bill Clinton that it will bend over backwards in its attempt
to placate the enemies of Ulster and of the Ulster majority.
It proved this by the revelation of the 'leaked' document
in which the government was cynically prepared to exploit
Protestant church leaders from Archbishop Robin Eames down
in order to sell its 'line' on the political path forward.
What damnable impertinence to try and brainwash a free people
in the way that even the Communist U.S.S.R. would have baulked
from attempting. The peoples of occupied Europe in the Second
World War, and of countries behind the Iron Curtain until
the fall of Communism showed their contempt and refusal to
swallow poisoned propaganda.
The Ulster Protestant people will likewise refuse to drink
from the poisoned chalice and to fall into line meekly as
their freedoms and liberties won by generations of Ulstermen
through blood sacrifice are poured down the drain.
Ulstermen and women will not allow themselves to be trussed
like helpless flies ready for the Irish spider to devour.
They know only too well what their fate would be in a united
Ireland dominated by the sort of people who have carried out
ethnic cleansing so successfully in many parts of Northern
Ireland.
Nationalists boast these days that four of the six counties
of Northern Ireland now have Roman Catholic majorities - a
disputed assertion. But even if it were true, the stark fact
is that this has been brought about by forced movement of
population and ethnic cleansing on a scale only exceeded in
former Yugoslavia since World War Two.
How could Ulster Protestants, Orangemen and Unionists worthy
of a name ever trust their future and that of their descendants
to a regime so clearly under the control of men and women
who have followed mercilessly and without deviation a programme
designed to consign a free people to slavery and to the dustbin
of history?
It is to Britain's shame that during the past 25 years it
has not taken the draconian security measures to crush republican
violence. No Falklands Task Force to Northern Ireland - merely
a holding operation until a 'political solution' favourable
to London and Dublin would be secured.
No wonder the Presbyterian minister who officiated at the
funeral service of Cyril Stewart spoke out so bravely as he
accused the government of failing in its duty to provide the
security the people of Ulster deserve.
When Ulster lost the Ulster Special Constabulary, that body
of brave men, due to an earlier British Government seeking
to appease the I.R.A., the Province was promised the people
would enjoy the same sort of security which had served the
people so well for nearly 50 years - 50 years in which only
a handful of people had died through republican terrorism.
That promise was not kept then or since, and the innocent
people of Northern Ireland have paid an appalling price in
terms of dead, wounded and maimed - along with the loss of
thousands of good citizens who have left the Province due
to the instability of the violence.
The fault for this did not lie with the brave men and women
of the security forces - Army, R.U.C., or U.D.R. and R.I.R.
- but rather with the politicians at Westminster who preferred
to appease their traditional enemy in Dublin rather than stand
by the loyal people of Ulster.
A dreadful story of betrayal which is still continuing, and
will eventually succeed unless there is a united front by
all the unionist people of this Province and their leaders
- a solid determined opposition to any bid to give Dublin
a meaningful say in the running of Northern Ireland.
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