Kill The Poor!

Gave some thought to the Tottenham statement regarding the effect of a couple of days rioting last year namely low self esteem and abandonment issues. Was trying to reconcile that situation with 30 years of rioting, bombing and murders that we endured in Northern Ireland and as far as i am aware no one has bothered to analyse our emotional state which for your interest is something again to exhaustion. The best example i can give from personal experience is that a bomb exploded maybe 6 feet from where i was standing with 2 friends by a stroke of luck none of us was injured whilst others were dead and injured. Badly shaken up i went home 4 hours later [got on with the day] and don’t remember deciding not to tell anyone in the family about what happened. I can only suggest that my silence was to avoid a lecture and any restrictions that would be imposed for my safety. Many years later i brought the subject up with Kevin D who was with me that day and he said “Thanks for bringing that up I’ve been trying to forget it for 14 years”. He then told me what he remembered about the event and he had honed in on details i hadn’t even seen and which were equally horrific if not worse than my own. That was the only conversation we had about the bombing and after more years passing i ended up in counselling for that and other issues and may be having some more soon. In 1997 Kevin D’s brother who also survived uninjured from the bombing was shot dead by Loyalist Paramilitaries in Belfast in an attack which the Police said was intended for Kevin. Going back to the original point regarding Tottenham a place i lived in, was married in and my eldest son was born in i have now reconciled the Politicians findings with myself. My findings are that they are just empty words there will be no influx of cash and jobs or regeneration of this neglected borough and yes they should feel abandoned but it happened years ago and the low self esteem amassed over the last couple of decades. So like the other brave souls in Belfast they will just have to get on with it. PS we dreamed of abandonment instead the State turned on us and murdered and colluded in the murders of at least a thousand Catholic civilians!