[I would like to point out also that the UVF was behind the bloodiest terrorist attack of the troubles. The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings on May 17, 1974 were a series of terrorist attacks on Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland which left 33 people dead, and almost 300 injured, the largest number of casualties in any single day in The Troubles.-ed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_Bombings
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) has decided to disband, according to the Observer. On February 11 (2006) the group’s leader said that “The UVF is going out of business because there is no need for it any more. The [Irish Republican Army]’s war is over, republicans have accepted the principle of consent. It doesn’t make sense to go on. If we are not being attacked by armed republicanism any more, then there is no point in having a UVF.”
The UVF was (depending on the point of view) an underground militia dedicated to protecting the rights of Protestants in Northern Ireland or a vicious anti-Catholic terror gang fuelled by sectarian hatred. The “loyalist” Protestants (and their armed organizations such as the UVF and Ulster Defense Association) want to retain Ulster’s connection to the United Kingdom, while the “republicans” (whose armed groups include the Irish Republican Army) are mainly Roman Catholics who want to unite Ulster (Northern Ireland) with Eire. With the rise of the European Union, the goals of each side of the sectarian divide are largely moot, moreso given the massive influx of non-Whites into the Emerald Isle. Ironically, both the UVF and the IRA, along with their legal political wings, support the darkening of their nation.
Today’s UVF was named for another organization of the same name formed by Ulster patriots in 1912/1913 by Sir Edward Carson to fight Home Rule for Ireland, which would have seen the Protestant population submerged in a Catholic sea. The Catholic Church has legal standing in Eire on social issues such as birth control, and given a long history of Catholic persecution many Protestants were concerned that their rights would be threatened in a united Ireland. In fact, prior to Irish independence there were many Irish Protestants living in the south of Ireland, including the family of John Tyndall, a founding member of the British National Party.
[Below is photo's of two UVF henchmen-ed]
This first UVF received arms from the Kaiser (who would later transfer his affections to the UVF’s republican enemies) shortly before the First World War broke out, with the British Government preparing to invade Ulster to put down the UVF. However, the innate patriotism of the UVF’s huge membership saved Ulster from a civil war; with the outbreak of World War One the UVF enlisted in the British Army en masse, and fought together as a unit, where they were heavily depleted by the Battle of the Somme and other fratrical tragedies.
The second UVF had no real connection with the original. It was founded in the 1960s as religious tensions rose between the Catholic and Protestant populations. The UVF’s first leader, Augustus ‘Gusty’ Spence, was sentenced to twenty years for killing an innocent Catholic. In prison Spence was exposed to the Marxist literature then in vogue in certain circles, and the UVF began a transformation into a political organization based on left-wing principles. The UVF was one of the strongest opponents of the National Front, which was making large gains in the 1970s. Eventually, the political party that was the legal wing of the UVF, the Progressive Unionist Party, developed links with Militant, a successful Trotskyist group that actually was elected to run Liverpool for a while.
Yet despite the left-wing connections UVF members continued to carry out sectarian attacks and participate in organized crime. The worst bunch was the Shankill Butchers, who carried out a series of sex-torture murders of innocent Catholic men in the 1970s.
More recently, the UVF was implicated in smuggling non-Whites into Eire from Scotland. This operation was carried out in co-operation with “Russian” Jewish Mafia gangs. The “anti-racism” of the UVF mirrored the same position held by their rivals, the IRA and its political wing Sinn Fein. In fact, the two sides joined hands to protest “racism” at one point.
The Ulster Troubles have left a long legacy of pain and hatred. Both sides have carried out horrific atrocities which have served to alienate Whites on both sides of the sectarian divide, and paramilitaries in each camp have exploited the tragedy. But unless and until each side is able to look past their differences all of the island of Ireland will continue to face the growing threat of Third World immigration without any united opposition.




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1 Setanta // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Why would you “like to point out also that the UVF was behind the bloodiest terrorist attack of the troubles”?
I should point out that the bombings of Dublin and Monaghan were a combination of four bombs, while a single bomb planted by the ‘Real’ IRA in a town called Omagh was the ‘bloodiest’ attack of the Troubles in terms of lives lost.
I would avoid quoting from or directing people to Wikipedia, by the way. It can be quite biased. Best to quote from sources cited within Wikipedia if they are in any way regarded as reputable and reliable.
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