Sinn Fein stoking anti-Protestant intolerance
15 August 2009
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:
"As I warned yesterday Sinn Fein, far from seeking to bring calm, is stoking up tensions and anti-Protestant intolerance in Rasharkin. Thus, the chronology and reality of yet another republican attack on the Orange Hall in the village.
“Given the frequency of these attacks the question now has to asked, why has the police presence been so sporadic as to allow these predictable attacks. Clearly, as republican agitation grows there is an increased need for an adequate police presence in and about the village, but resources have been so dwindled that it appears such is beyond the current capacity of the PSNI. This is not acceptable.
“The republican agenda to cleanse Rasharkin, as with Dunloy, of every last vestige of Protestant and British culture must not be allowed to succeed and in this the PSNI has a frontline responsibility.
“Meanwhile for the second time in a fortnight a Protestant home in a private development in Ballymena has been attacked, as local republicans widen their campaign of intimidation in the north of the town. Hitherto the mixed Dunfane development had been free of such attacks, but now it too is clearly on the republican agenda. Again, a robust police response is imperative."
