Re: Re Palestinian Flags in Ireland

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

To know the loyalists is not to over politicise them.  I used to have a
full set of loyalist literature which was produced in the working class
areas of Sandy row and Shankill Road in Belfast. It was the genuine
spontaneous voice of the loyalist working class. One day I dumped it all
because I could no longer bear the burden of filth, hate, racism, stupidity
and bigotry that it contained.  You may be forgetting about evidence such
as the pro-British Demonstration that Good Old Gusty Spence stage outside
the City Hall in Belfast.  Spence was the Darling of the Stalinist Official
IRA.  They tried to make him out as the political Loyalist they could deal
with. What was the  demo he staged about?  Well, John it was in favour of
British Imperialism in Cyprus.

I have no doubts at all about the level of stupidity and ignorance among
the Protestant working class.  I have as I have said read enough of their
writing. I doubt if most of them could spell Zionism. But they are a
product of imperialism and this they know instinctively.  When I taught a
class of working class loyalists in the 70s, they consistently and
instinctively opposed all acts of rebellion against authority any where in
the world.

They can only be properly understood in terms of the master slave
dialectic.  The loyalists are the slaves who have opted to be the masters
of other slaves.  Simple.

regards

Gary


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