In all honesty some of these people are the biggest threat to our community than the IRA. They need taken out or sidelined for the safety of Ulster.

It was a ruse they were working at the time,creating a feeling of if you don't they will. Its a clever move and one which is used by a lot of spammers,junk mailers etc. However,it does work. I read a few cases where people were sent mail telling them they had a winning number and if they didn't get in touch teir number would be allocated to someone else. One man lost thousands.

So I see the irish 'pushers' of the 'claim it it yours' in the same light. And as most people don't like to feel they are missing out on something they go for it. Its a good ploy. But as I say I think people are catching on to their 'dirty tricks'. Lets hope so.

Somebody made a good post on pulse about paddy's day,and I had a good article myself by by Gordon Lucy which told how the people of Billy (near Bushmills i think) in the 1800s wouldn't hold paddy's day because they considered it to be papist. I had that article on my computer but lost it. It was taken from the Ulster Scot paper but to big a job to hoak though all that on the computer and anyway it might not even be there now. Bit mad at losing it.

I know when they had the mural on the Newtownards Rd with 'Irish Out' on it there was a bit of pressure to get that removed and they eventually did take that particular part of it out. We've come along way from the 1800s residents of Billy and its us who seem to be doing all the changing.

But as I mentioned one time before,it are those who stay true who will be marginalised and given the cold shoulder. Thats what usually happens in these situations.

I never even knew that lodge was still going, I would have thought that anything that man was involved with would a been well and truly swept under the carpet and not touched with a ten foot barge pole.

And I agree at times we are like lambs to the slaughter.