[wideawake]

The political wings of the Loyalist terror groups are political parties, like their Sinn Fein/IRA counterparts - Progressive Unionist Party/UVF, Ulster Democratic Party/UFF.

The Orange Order has longstanding links with the UDA and the UDA/UDP/UPRG is, of course, the political wing of the UFF terrorist organization.

The Orange Order may be "distancing" itself from the terrorists officially - but it has plenty of terrorist supporters in its ranks.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's a big organisation - thus it is too mainstream to be heavily infiltrated by loyalists.

But, I will admit there are some members that are involved in terrorism.