SECTARIAN/ETHNIC CLEANSING IN NORTH BELFAST

Protestant Victims - Old.....	LAST TEN PROTESTANT FAMILIES FLEE TORRENS Torrens and Heathfield were once a happy and peaceful Protestant community situated between the Oldpark and Cliftonville Roads inhabited by 400 Protestant families. Despite the 30 year IRA terror campaign which cost local lives and the loss of their local Finiston Primary School, the resolve of the people was strong and until eight years ago the majority of homes were still occupied. With the signing of the Belfast agreement all that was to end, almost nightly incursions into the now surrounded Protestant area were made by RC/Republicans in spite of the close proximity of Old park Police Station.
Betsy McClenaghan

One Protestant victim had the windows in her home smashed on 23 separate occasions. When attempts were made to erect a protective fence, the workers had to abandon the task in the face of intimidation by RC/Republican thugs. Today Torrens is an abandoned wasteland, obviously the Nationalists of North Belfast "don't want a Protestant about the place."	.....and Young
	Danielle Dunlop packs

Yet again we did not see any Ecumenical clergy intervene to save the besieged Protestants. No appeals to send financial or practical help. They were the forgotten victims. This is Belfast - part of the United Kingdom, - not Bosnia. If 12 families of Moslems, Hindus or other ethnic minorities had been driven from their homes in Birmingham or Bradford, there would have been action taken, questions in Parliament, national TV headlines.

As the Protestant refugees fled their homes triumphant RC youths climbed on the roofs of the abandoned dwellings to hoist the Tricolour flag of the Irish Republic, as seen above. Read for yourselves the account of these disgraceful events as recounted to a local newspaper by one of the Protestant victims, 73 year old Billy Mooney.

"WE SURVIVED HITLER AND THE BLITZ BUT NOW REPUBLICAN THUGS HAVE FORCED US OUT"

TEN Protestant families left their homes claiming they had been forced out by years of intimidation by republicans.

A 91 year-old wheelchairbound grandmother was among those to evacuate their houses on the Torrens estate in North Belfast. Their decision to leave comes just months after another 13 families left the estate.

Just a handful of Protestant families remain in an area surrounded by mainly nationalist areas such as Oldpark, Cliftonville and Ardoyne. Retired shipyard worker Billy Moody, 73, who lived in the estate for nearly 60 years, said: "I have lived here since 1946 and my wife Ellen's family were here from 1942, even surviving Hitler. Now these scumbags who call themselves republicans and are always preaching about human rights have orchestrated a campaign to finally get the last remaining families out of Torrens."

Billy Moody

"Where are our basic human rights? All we want is to do live in peace and quiet. I thought I would see my days out in this house but my family can take no more, it is one of the saddest days of my life ."

Looking over the wasteland of boarded up and derelict houses Billy said that it was more than just "naked sectarianism" but a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing. His 72-year-old wife Ellen was in tears as Billy told how his spirit had been broken.

He added: "This area has been targeted for political reasons. If you come back here in five years there will be hundreds of new houses filled with nationalist voters as Sinn Fein carry on their policy of gaining total dominance in North and West Belfast."

Setting fire to a copy of the Good Friday Agreement, he added:

"A fat lot of good this has done. Like many other Protestant mugs I was sucked into voting Yes."

Wheelchair-bound Betsy McClenaghan, 91, said the situation was worse than she experienced during two world wars. The gran said:

"It's terrible, I've come through the blitzes and the 1935 riots but nothing as bad as this. I'm disgusted, l've been living in Torrens since 1942 and l've never known an upheaval like it."

NOT ONLY IN NORTH BELFAST

Not only in North Belfast, but across Ulster, isolated Protestants are experiencing the bitter harvest resulting from the "sell out" Belfast Agreement.

COUNTY ARMAGH ORANGE HALL BURNED

Here we see the ruins of the Commons Orange Hall gutted by Republican arsonists under cover of darkness.

GRAVEYARD VANDALISED

A small Protestant cemetery in an isolated area on the outskirts of Armagh City was the scene of another blatant sectarian outrage - with Protestant headstones especially of ex-servicemen vandalised.

MILFORD ORANGE HALL

Yet again another Protestant property was the target of Republican paint-bombs.

AND BACK TO NORTH BELFAST.....

Protestant bandsmen brutally stabbed and Protestants besieged in Greencastle Orange Hall. Black Institution leader speaks of North Belfast Protestants being "Terrorised into Extinction".

Read the Newspaper accounts below and see the evidence.

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LOYALISTS UNDER SIEGE TERRIFIED

Terrified Royal Black preceptory members and bandsmen were forced to barricade themselves in a north Belfast Orange Hall under siege from nationalists outside, the News letter has revealed.

Police formed a ring of armoured Land Rovers around the Greencastle Hall off the Shore Road while around 80 men, women and children cowered inside.

The three hour stand-off finally came to an end at around 9pm on Saturday when police escorted the Greencastle RBP No 336 marchers away through a tunnel of riot shields.

Earlier on Saturday, the Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution said Protestants in North Belfast were being "terrorised into extinction".

He accused the Parades Commission of encouraging a "state of apartheid" in Northern Ireland.

Speaking in Comber at one of a series of annual demonstrations being held across the Province, William Logan said Republicans were being encouraged in part by Parades Commission rulings on contentious marches.

Violence flared as the Greencastle Black Preceptory and band made its way along the Whitewell Road at around 6pm, when a group of around 15 men attacked marchers. The nationalist crowd later swelled to more than 100, and police brought along water cannons as an emergency measure, although they did not use them.

A former Worshipful Master of the Greencastle Orange Lodge, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said the scenes inside the hall were terrifying.

He said: "It was very frightening. The police had their Land Rovers around the hall to protect us. They had Land Rovers on both sides of the road and were trying to push the nationalists back behind them."

"For three hours we were under siege. I feel sick this has happened. This parade has been going up and down that road as long as I can remember and there has never been any trouble. We were dependent on the expertise of the police to get us out of there safely."

The bandsmen were finally escorted to the Graymount area where cars were waiting to take them away.

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FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH STABBING

Four men charged with stabbing two loyalist bandsmen in North Belfast are to appear in court.

The bandsmen suffered serious injuries when they and a third man were set upon as they walked along the Shore Road early on Saturday morning. One suffered a stab wound to the stomach and underwent emergency surgery and the other received a stab wound to the neck.

The four men, in their late teens and early 20s, have each been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and causing actual bodily harm.

Politicians on both sides of the community in troubled north Belfast condemned the attack which they said only served to heighten tensions in the area. North Belfast DUP MP Nigel Dodds appealed for calm.

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9/11 PRIEST TIPPED FOR SAINTHOOD

A campaign has been launched to have the Irish priest killed in the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers declared a saint.

Father Mychal Judge, the son of Irish immigrants, became victim number one of the terrorist attack when his body was the first to be identified from the wreckage of the World Trade Centre's lobby.

But now a documentary will claim that his legacy is sparking claims that he has worked miracles from the grave and should be beatified by the Pope. The image of the priest being carried through clouds of smoke by the firefighters he died serving was one of the most poignant of the attack that has changed the world for good. More than 3,000 people, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, attended the funeral of the New York fire department's Franciscan chaplain which was beamed around the globe.

The UTV documentary which will be shown in the wake of the third anniversary of 9/11 will document the incredible public reaction to an extraordinary man who, since his death, has had a government bill, a ferry and a road all named after him.

His image has also inspired people to produce portraits and sculptures, and children are being named across the US in his honour. Miracles have even been reported in his name and a campaign has been launched to make him a saint.

But despite his reputation Father Mychal's closest friends say he would be uncomfortable about any reference to him as a saint and would be the first to admit that he was a flawed human being. They recall how the day of his funeral was the 23rd anniversary of his "recovery" as an alcoholic.

The documentary will highlight how Father Mychal was known as a gay man to friends he had come out to. He helped fund a St Patrick's day parade in Queens which included gay groups and showed up in his brown friar's robe to put the church on the side of 'the oppressed'. He was a longtime member of Dignity, the gay Catholic group and was doing AIDS ministry out of St Francis Church on West 31st Street in the 1980s when most others were shunning people with the illness.

"Out of all the stories to come out of that day, the most transcendent was the story of Father Mychal Judge, who, with his fellow fire-fighters, ran into the buildings at a time when everyone else was running out; who was there not because he had to be there, but because he was there to be with his men, to give them comfort and any kind of aid they needed on this horrible day," said Burt Kearns, a tabloid journalist based in Los Angeles. Vena Drennan tells the documentary that she met Father Mychal shortly before September 11 when he visited her to support her over the loss of her husband in a fire. She talks of the great support he gave her during the worst period of her life.

"As a young boy Mychal Judge wanted to be a fire-fighter or a priest and he thought it was remarkable that God granted him his two dreams. If you've got to go through the valley of death, you've got to hope for a Mychal Judge to be around," she says.

Father Mychal was born in Brooklyn in 1933 to two impoverished Irish immigrants from Co. Leitrim. His father died when he was just six and he had to go out to work shining shoes to help his mother and two sisters make ends meet.

He entered the Franciscans in 1954 and was ordained in 1961. He was assigned to St Francis of Assisi in 1986 and became a fire chaplain in 1992.

"I always wanted to be a priest or a fireman; now I'm both," he said of his job. I had to bust my tail to get this habit, so I wear it always. I wanted to be a Franciscan so bad. I have absolutely no regrets.

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EX-IRA TERRORIST TO JOIN THE PRIESTHOOD

A FORMER IRA bomber from Londonderry wants to become a priest. Shane O'Doherty, who as a teenager was once chief letter bomb maker for the Provos in the Maiden City, intends to become a fully fledged man of God - even though he once sent one of his potentially fatal devices to a Bishop.

Wannabee priest O'Doherty also was married for a time.

O'Doherty, it was reported, has begun Roman Catholic clerical training at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He could be a priest with his own parish in five years' time.

At one stage he was the most wanted man in Britain after hurting and maiming 12 people, including Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, with his letter bombs.

When he was finally caught he was given 30 life sentences. He was released in 1989. The Londonderry man is believed to be the first convicted terrorist in the world to be accepted for clerical training. Dublin based assistant director of vocations, the Rev Donal Rocho said:

"Our church is all about forgiveness and making new beginnings. There would be no special dispensation needed."

But there could be problems over his marriage. He and his wife Michelle have split up but it's not known if they have gone through a civil divorce or if the marriage has been annulled. O'Doherty, who now lives at Blackrock, Dublin, said: "I can't talk about it."

In O'Doherty's reign of terror one of his intended victims was Bishop Gerard Tickle. The terrorist sent him a bomb in a hollowed out Bible but the explosives failed to detonate.

We venture to think that there will be no problem for this IRA ex-terrorist to join the ranks of Rome's priesthood. This is the system which drenched Europe in blood by wars of religion, civil-wars, revolts and revolution, not forgetting the cruel torture of Protestants in the dungeons of the Inquisition.

The inspired prophecies of God's word brand the Church of Rome as

"MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, DRUNKEN WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS OF JESUS" - Revelation, Chapter 17.

This is the church/system which burned the Protestant martyrs, massacred the French Huguenots on St Bartholomew's Eve, waged a war of genocide against the Waldensians of Italy and played a sinister role in the Spanish Civil War and the Ustashi reign of terror in war time Croatia.

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PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HONOURED GUEST OF THE R.C. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

On August 3rd President Bush in an obvious attempt to win RC votes in his bid for re-election in November, appeared at the National Convention of the Knights of Columbus in the Convention Centre at Dallas, Texas.

He was given a standing ovation and chants of "four more years" from the thousands of assembled Romanists including Cardinal Eagan, Archbishop of New York and Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington.

The Knights of Columbus were founded in Connecticut in 1882 to advance the Roman Church and its political/religious agenda in U.S.A.

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BLAIR'S SON IN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE

On Wednesday 21st July, eighteen year old Nicky Blair, the Prime Minister's son, together with a friend were received in an audience by Pope John Paul II.

The teenagers dressed in dark suits and ties were amongst those invited to greet the Pontiff and to kneel and kiss the Papal Ring - symbol of his authority.

The Blair children were brought up as Romanists, the religion of their mother Cherie and both Nicky and his brother attended the Roman Catholic London Oratory School.

No wonder the Roman Church is so confident that the time is ripe for the re-conversion of Britain.

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