A blight on the Twelfth…
The devil in any story is always in the detail. Lindy McDowell has some telling detail on this one, which involves a grieving father, a bonfire, ‘paramilitary sanction’, and a poor response from the PSNI. She also has some tough questions:
…the Orange Order. Where were they in all this? The bonfires are supposedly about celebrating Orange culture. Not paramilitary maggotry.Why, then, was there no one on hand from the Order to supervise the bonfire – and to take immediate action in this case?
And, finally, the police. What the hell are the PSNI doing going through ” community liaison channels” before they act?
“Nonsense: the population has since ‘recovered’ many times over, but constantly exported its surplus ( anything > 5.5 million) to England and America. Are you blaming the famine for all that subsequent emigration too?”
Reader – do all countries have natural levels of population above which need to export people ? – fr’instance what’s England’s ? – or indeed the planet’s ??