Ian Paisley - your thoughts (44)

Snowy, I'll take on board you struggle why I call PSF Quislings. So here is just one of many explanations.....

The Tri-Colour riots

'When McConnell, himself a Unionist, ordered the police to move against the Republican headquarters he was responding to pressure from Ian K. Paisley, leader of the Free Presbyterians. Paisley had threatened that if the RUC did not remove the tricolour he would lead a march of his followers to Divis Street and take it down himself....
cont...

Meanwhile, at the City Hall, Paisley had decided not to march; but he held a meeting which he opened with prayers and readings from the Bible. Then he read a telegram from an organisation of people calling themselves the Ulster Loyalist Association. The telegram congratulated him "on his stand against the tricolour."...

Cont...

By this time the RUC, using pickaxes, had smashed down the doors of the Republican headquarters and taken possession of the flag. They carried it away through a barrage of stones and empty bottles, and to the prolonged jeers of crowds of youngsters.



(Still with me Snowy)

Yet today Jim Gibney from PSF and a 'PRO' of sorts for the Quislings tried to take an Irish Tri-Colour down in almost the same place. A poster on Facebook called 'TircolouratCityHall' posed this...