‘UDA forced us from our home’

[Murphy]

A Waterside family who were forced out of their home earlier this week by loyalist paramilitaries have spoken for the first time about their terrifying ordeal.

The Simpson family had to leave their Rossdowney Park home last Sunday after it was attacked by a gang of eight men, some armed with hammers, who chanted ‘UDA’ as they smashed more than 12 windows in the house.

Gerry and Isobel Simpson had lived in the street for 21 years and said they are “heartbroken” to have to leave their home. Their son, Saul, also received a death threat to his place of work on Monday and he has had to give up his job as a result. Explaining what happened in the early hours of last Sunday morning, Mrs Simpson said three men attacked her son and some of his friends as they waited for a taxi outside the family home.

The Waterside woman said the gang then returned in greater numbers as the incident became more sinister. “They came back and there was about eight of them and they started chanting ‘UDA UDA ra ra ra.’ They had hammers and crowbars and they started hitting the door,” she explained.

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[Magister Eckhart]

What? You mean the IRA aren't the only terrorists? There are terrorists who work for the crown?? I say, why don't they get as much press coverage?

[Guapo]

You guys are worse than Balkanoids.

[007]

What? You mean the IRA aren't the only terrorists? There are terrorists who work for the crown?? I say, why don't they get as much press coverage?

Have you got a source for the UDA working for the crown?

[Guapo]

Have you got a source for the UDA working for the crown?

Celtic glasgow hools perhaps

[Murphy]

Loyalists simply cannot hide any longer. Everyone knows that they are a horrible and vile breed.

Have you got a source for the UDA working for the crown?

You cannot seriously deny that the British Crown forces collaborated with Loyalist terrorist groups.

[007]

He made a rather specific accusation, I'd like to see the evidence for it. Yours is a little broader and might include the odd copper working off his own bat. The only question is whether you are phrasing your accusation that way to provide yourself with an out when called. A cynical fellow might think you are while hoping to give the impression that the UDA was an official British government organization.

At any rate, there's absolutely no doubt that the Republican terrorists racked up the biggest tally of innocent victims.

[Magister Eckhart]

Have you got a source for the UDA working for the crown?

It's practically their bloody mission statement.

Do they serve the interests of the crown and of Great Britain? Then they work for the crown. Just like the IRA works for the Republic. I would say the lack of coverage of the UDA in the British press only proves that the powers-that-be are happy for the help, too.

There needn't be an explicit tie between government and terrorist group for the group to serve the interests of that government.

[007]

I guess we can take that as a NO.

[Magister Eckhart]

I guess we can take that as a NO.

No, you took it to mean there's an explicit, official connexion. You miss the point entirely.

Come back to me when you've taken those orange goggles off.