Ian Kyle Paisley. “The Big Man”
"Prime Minister Of Northern Ireland "
Who would have thought it !!
"All I can say is that I’ll not be changing, I will go to the grave with the convictions I have." ..Ian Paisley.
Well, Ian's dream has came true he is Prime Minister, or first minister, call it what you will, of his beloved "Ulster", yet the people that he persecuted, insulted and spewed his hatred on for over forty years put him there. No matter who you voted for it was inevitable at the end of the count Paisley would have obtained that position in the Stormont Government, ...Stormont Government... the very sound of it makes me want to puke. All I can say is I didn't vote..but then again even if 20,000 more people voted in West Belfast, Paisley still would have been Prime Minister of the Stormont Government. Had we all said "NO" (Paisley's favourite word) to the elections the arch bigot could never have materialised his forty year old dream of becoming El Presidento in the six county Coconut Colony. If you wonder how I can speak so positively (on this the day after elections) that Paisley will go into 'government' with republicans, I base it on this one sentence he made he made, "If you had told me 20 years ago that they [republicans] would be repudiating the very fundamentals of Sinn Féin/IRA, I would have laughed, but that is what they have done." Let us look back on the career of hate that brought Ian to his lofty position.
Ian Paisley burst onto the 'political' scene back in 1963 when he led a 'deputation ' to the City Hall to protest at the Union flag there being flown at half mast in respect for the death of Pope John.He seemed to have a fettish about flags for the following year he was threatening to led his bully boys up Divis Street to remove the Tricolour from the window of the Sinn Fein Election H.Q, if his cohorts in the R.U.C, (a former name for the PSNI same force new name) wouldn't do it.
Collusion was a word rarely used back then, there was no need for it, everyone knew the sectarian nature of the R.U.C and expected them to do Paisley's bidding, up they went to Divis Street and tore the flag from the window, and those who protested were viciously batoned .
Before long an angry crowd gathered and vicious riots erupted and went on for a week, the power of Paisley was now being recognised. In May 1966 Patrick Joseph Scullion was shot dead outside his home at Oranmore Street, the coroner ruled he was stabbed to death, probably in a drunken row, this despite witness's saying they heard the gun shots and seen a car sped away in the Shankill direction. the verdict was upheld and Patrick was buried. probably in some drunken row.
Then on June 26th 1966, some young Catholic barmen, went to a Shankill Bar, The Malvern Arms for a late night night, as they were leaving gunshots rang out, some were wounded and one, 18 year old Peter Ward was shot dead. The gunmen were later arrested and in court, one of them whimpered, "I wish I had never heard of the Big Man", "Big Man" was a name Paisley was known by, so people were left to take what they wanted out of that. Gusty Spence the leader of the U.V.F gang received a life sentence. Meanwhile people were demanding that Patrick Joseph Scullion's body should be exhumed and re-examined... it was then admitted, or discovered, that he had in fact been shot, and by the same organisation that murdered young Peter Ward and wounded the other young men. The same organisation blew up the Dunadry water main and of course the RUC and Unionist polticians rushed to blame it on the IRA. I hope all this is in The Paisley Movie being made.
Ian Paisley's Paramiltary wing, "Ulster Resistance".
On the 10th of November 1986 in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson and Ivan Foster, all of Paisley's DUP party, formed a military wing which they named "Ulster Resistance". The went on to organise through out the six British ocuppied counties and before long they had a Battalion set up in all six counties and three Battalions in Belfast City. Paisley appeared in public wearing the red beret of the paramilitary group (photo right). Soon after on being confronted about the group, Paisley claimed his party has severed links with it , yet in April 1987, two members of Ulster Resistance were apprehended in Paris attempting to sell secrets on Missile technology at Shorts Ammunition Complex in Belfast to a South African diplomat in exchange for arms and ammuntion. Speaking of guns, the Ulster Resistance, The UVF, The RUC, and the UDA, have yet to hand over one gun or one bullet, and yet, the British Government have offered the UDA £1.2 million handshake, WHY?..is it for services rendered.??
Far from "Historic"..March 26th. Stormont Returns
Was I right or was I right !!!!
"Ian Paisley IS Prime Minister of "Northern Ireland," I hate to say, "I told you so ", but you made one old man very happy, you have fulfilled his life long dream of becomimng Prime Minister of the six British occupied counties become a reality. But don't think your votes were enough, he will have you jumping through many hoops before he is finished, and the joke is the hoops will be endless. Anyone who suggests that Stormont didn't open on the 26th of March but six weeks later is a fool, 'tis only an another hoop set up by the arch bigot , him having the last word again. But don't be too disappointed, Mother England has let you off with water rates for a year, so your votes weren't wasted, James Connolly had a word to say about "Water and Gas socialists", but since you nationalists are so well versed on Irish Republicanism I need not here to quote him. I just wonder what would Mother England needed to have gave back in the January 1969 Elections to have allowed Ian Paisley to become "Northern Ireland Prime Minister" in those elections.? But a peaceful Northern Ireland has returned, and the Double Dutch rhetoric of Ian Paisley, Prime Minister, points the way to enter the hoops...... he said..........
"We must not allow our justified loathing of the horrors and tragedies of the past to become a barrier to creating a better and more stable future. In looking to that future we must never forget those who have suffered during the dark period from which we are, please God, emerging". ... is that not double Dutch or what ???..and you know, God forgive me, ..I think it is only a taste of the double dutch you have coming to you (I say you because you voted for him, I didn't) from the Rt. Hon. Ian K Paisley Prime Minister of the Northern Ireland Stormont Government...."Yes Mr Minister," springs to mind. By the way, did you notice The "Prime MInister", Big Ian, mentioned "Northern Ireland" SIX TIMES in his short acceptance speech, but then again Unionists always did refer to these six counties as "Northern Ireland", Although I do think Joe Devlin, the celebrated Nationalist did once , much to his embarrassment, call it "Northern Ireland" in public, republicans roared in laughter, if I remember right it was around the time "Wee Joe's" party followers stoned Countess Markovich at the corner of Panton Street, maybe it was later, yes it was , it was the day a Nationalist mob attacked the home of Annie Gallagher in Baker Street for flying a tricolour
.