how british do you feel?
the ipsiphi | 11.07.2003 17:09 | Culture
tomorrow several thousand people of generally far right political opinion and fundementalist Xian religious belief will go marching down their streets to the delight and annoyance of their co-community residents.
They are the Orange Men.
They are the Orange Men.
Now if you are a modern well adjusted Briton, of the post-imperialist type, perhaps descended from the Windrush or with close relatives in the borderlands between AFghanistan and Pakistan you might feel slightly "off-put" by Orange men.
if you are a serious intellectual type who thinks we should leave messing around with such delicate areas of the Peace Process yawn yawn, coz they are too "contentshuz" then go back in the UK IMC archive.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/newswire/archive518.html
or
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/pamphlet/orangeorder.html
if not, get a plane/bus/boat to Dublin tomorrow, for the first Orange March since Home Rule when as we all know the fenians illegally declared Home Rule between 1916 and 1922.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60362
bring a drum.
hmmmm. very irish no¿?¿?¿?
ok read
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60309
meanwhile do you feel British?
like really British?
if you are a serious intellectual type who thinks we should leave messing around with such delicate areas of the Peace Process yawn yawn, coz they are too "contentshuz" then go back in the UK IMC archive.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/newswire/archive518.html
or
http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/pamphlet/orangeorder.html
if not, get a plane/bus/boat to Dublin tomorrow, for the first Orange March since Home Rule when as we all know the fenians illegally declared Home Rule between 1916 and 1922.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60362
bring a drum.
hmmmm. very irish no¿?¿?¿?
ok read
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60309
meanwhile do you feel British?
like really British?
the ipsiphi
Homepage:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60309
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a lot
11.07.2003 17:28
Britain is the best.....
...as the IMC censor prick(s) will delete the rest I will leave ti there
ram
Hooray for Britain
11.07.2003 17:47
My name
the people of ulster say NO!!!
11.07.2003 19:43
Men in bowler hats and umberellas marching down my street .
apprentice boys dressed like extras from thunderbirds.
alcohol socked toothless guys we tattoos standing at the sides
in the new rangers strip shouting abuse at passers by all in the
name of god .
Makes me proud to be british .The people of ulster say NO!
DA DA DUMB DE DUMB DE DUMB DE DUMB DA DA DA DA DUMBDIE DUMB
THE TASH MY FATHER WORE.
The Right Reverent Dr Ian Paisley
KINCORA sex beast William McGrath another proud orange man
11.07.2003 22:27
Left to the mercy of the old boy ulster unionist establishment who ran the system in those days, who protected their own and closed ranks to protect loyal lodge members. What chance did the children of ulster working class poor stand against the might of the unionist establishmet.
Lets take a close look at some high ranking Orange lodge members, master lickle Davy Trunchbull, Jeffery O donalson/enoch powell's protege, decrepit leatherface/Reverend Martin Smyth. These old fossils represent the crumbling facade of the unionist old boy network. Like any old boy network, they stand for privilege, petty nepotism, injustice and hierarchy. They do not represent the face of modern loyalism.
Working class loyalists, flute playing fodder who trapse submissively behind their rich stuck up high society leaders, Master Davy trunchbull, in an Order which gives privilege and power to the richest. An order which believes the rich are closest to God, (when in fact the bible states clearly the POOR are closest and most beloved by God/ Jesus, hence the eye of the needle)the rich simply because they are rich deserve to be pampered, respected and looked up to adoringly. On this earth the rich may have all the privileges/fun but you can bet in heaven, Master Davy trunchbull and lickle Jeffrey O donalson will be roasting in hell.
CLEO (look at me now, I'm on top of the world)
How English do you feel?
12.07.2003 15:23
the guardian quiz.
Homepage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,211620,00.html
How do you feel English?
13.07.2003 12:12
It has been the customary clear global post time of 36 hours now since I began my trans-national Orange posting.
This I feel is the most important, after all Orangeism is a British phenomona.
It was in the United Kingdom yesterday that over two hundred marches were held and it must be admitted without incident...
I find it interesting that the response was belied such _antagonism_ & _prejudice_
From the Irish side, Cleo felt it is still neccesary to remind all of the abues of Kincora.
For my part on the Irish IMC I felt it still neccesary to afix a link to an Orange site in Canada which opens with a flash animation of a small child lost in a corridor of different closed doors.
From the "British" side, the presumption was made that this was a "SF" post.
Indeed the suggestion was made that ireland.indymedia is "SF" indymedia.
Yet the linked pamphlet was a WSM anarchist collective's work.
At the Irish site posting one belatedly reminded all that the residents of the Garvaghy Road are the few residents of the world, who are not consulted by the LOL. Becuase they are are republicans with connections to SF. I thought about Brixton. I thought about Brick Lane, I thought about, as I do quite regularly; about mosques. I waited like a cyber fisherman aware that for american readers @ least, my trans-national Orange special was beig considered "bait". At about the 27th hour, I formulated the following question...
ipsiphi
Homepage: http://www.whitedot.org/waste-o-rama/default.html
How do you feel A Londoner?
13.07.2003 12:22
For here we are all clearly atheists, postmaterialists, whose wise parents shepherded us into this life of activism and opinion without ever being affected by such issues.
We ought feel very clever and accomplished.
just like London.
ipsiphi
Homepage: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=60370
ger the tim
17.04.2004 22:57
ger