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Not once in Trimbles speech did he mention the ongoing protestant pogroms against the Catholic population. The murder of journalists, daily screaming abuse at catholic children going to school and nightly pipe bomb attacks seem to belong exclusively to the Loyalist side, but this obviously not terrorism to Trimble, Paisley and their mouthpieces.

The IRA are on ceasefire for years, imperfect as that may be, but hard to believe it's still holding given the provocation the catholic community are enduring. I believe that decommissioning is a red herring now, although I hope it happens. I don't think that the Unionists are going to pass over this dreamboat opportunity to demonize half the voting Catholic population while the henchmen in their midst terrorize with complete impunity and no backlash to worry about.

The murder of journalists, daily screaming abuse at catholic children going to school and nightly pipe bomb attacks seem to belong exclusively to the Loyalist side, but this obviously not terrorism to Trimble, Paisley and their mouthpieces.

Sorry, Sinn Fein lackey boy. Trimble did denounce all that. He and Paisley called for a clean up of the Loyalist terrorists too. Course you wouldn't be paying attention to that, in your Fenian desire to demonise all that is Loyalist, now would you?

No Protestant paramilitary group has access to power like Sinn Fein / IRA has. Either they choose politics or the gun. They can't have it both ways and hold Northern Ireland to ransom whenver things don't go their own way.

Ivan

You seem keen that Catholics in Northern Ireland should be demonised. Why?

Trimble dealt with the problem of terrorists in government in NI at a time when national leaders have declared war on terrorism. He was perfectly entitled to point out this contradiction.

He didn't refer to terrorist activity by ALL the terrorist groups that has continued since the Agreement was signed in 1998: racketeering, shootings, attacks on the police with petrol bombs, boulders and live ammunition, etc.

He didn't refer to the decision by London and Dublin 'not to ruffle paramilitary feathers' in case it would damage the peace process. That is why 'law and order' in some places is directed by the respective terrorists without police intervention.

He didn't refer to the problems in Ardoyne where school girls and pensioners are terrorised on a daily and nightly basis.

You didn't tell us that Brendan Mailey who helped set up the Holy Cross School parent's group earlier this year to provoke the loyalist reaction from Glenbryn is a cop killer. He went up to a policeman in a gas/petrol station some years ago and shot him down in cold blood. This is the man who frog-marches the parents and little girls through the baying loyalists.

It's all based on the corruption of the Martin Luther King phrase: "Let the world see who the real aggressor is". The tactic is simple. Provoke your opponent to attack you in a frenzied rage and make sure the cameras are there and pointing in the right direction.

Quentin Davies, the new Conservative spokesman for Northern Ireland, fell for the sting but Brice Dickson, head of the NIHRC, a native was not taken in. He visited the scene but refused to participate in the terrorist 'photo-opportunity' by walking with the little girls.