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Asger Petersen Speciale Institut for Statskundskab, KU dy Sunday finder sted (McClean 1997: kap. 7). Belfast Newsletter konstruerer NICRA og de katolske protestmarcher som et skalkeskjul for IRA: “Its quite obvious that the CR demonstration was being deliberately used to cover the activities of the terrorist and to aggravate the situation to further the ends of the extreme republican element”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#3) “PM: Those who organized this march must bear a terrible responsibility for urging people to lawlessness and for providing the IRA with the opportunity to again bring death to our streets”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#5) NICRA's march bliver konstrueret som “lovløs”, hvilket den legalt set også er, da den nordirske regering har forbudt marcher i hele Nordirland, i et forsøg på at dæmpe konflikten - dette bliver dog opfattet som politisk undertrykkelse af den katolsk-republikanske befolkningsgruppe (Clohesy 1991: 22). Endvidere konstrueres NICRA's marcher som et skalkeskjul for IRA, der benytter marcherne som dækning til at udføre deres terrorhandlinger. “The republican civil rights and civil disobedience campaigns yesterday stripped the last vestige of bogus respectability from the so-called CR Association. Today they are exposed ad a sorry mixture of misguided people, gangs of thugs and hooligans manipulated by malevolent men”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#8) NICRA konstrueres som enten “vildledte” eller som hooligans der manipuleres af personer med ondt i sinde. NICRA konstrueres således som en organisation, hvis handlinger truer freden i Nordirland. Samtidig konstrueres NICRA dog også som en organisation, der forsøger at arrangere fredelige protest- demonstrationer, men som bliver manipuleret af kræfter, der ønsker vold: “In the statement they warn the organizers that other marches which have set out with the intention of being peaceful have been infiltrated by others who have seen to it that they end in violence”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#25) “For all their assurances of measures they intended to take to control the parade, the organizers could not conceivably know whether the IRA – who have been so active in and around Newry in recent weeks would use the occasion to launch an attack on those forces”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#27) 76
Asger Petersen Speciale Institut for Statskundskab, KU NICRA konstrueres som en fredelig organisation, der er blevet infiltreret af IRA, der misbruger de fredelige demonstrationer til at udføre vold. Det er således ikke NICRA og de mennesker, der støtter organisationen (hvilket primært er den katolsk-republikanske befolkningsgruppe), der er problemet, men IRA's infiltration af marcher og demonstrationer. Dette fremgår ligeledes af Belfast Newsletters beskrivelse af Bloody Sunday, hvor ofrene primært konstrueres som medlemmer af IRA: “Four of the 13 people killed in the clash in Londonderry on Sunday were on the “Wanted” list as IRA men, a ministry of defence staff officer concerned with military operations in Ulster said in London yesterday. One of the others killed had four nail bombs in his possession and other was youth of 15-16”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#12) NICRA konstrueres således som en organisation, der egentlig er fredelig, men er infiltreret af voldsmænd og terroriser, der misbruger organisationen til at udøve vold. Dermed bliver det i højere grad IRA og voldelige hooligans, der konstrueres som et problem eller en trussel i forbindelse med Belfast Newsletters beskrivelse af de katolske protestmarcher, end det er NICRA og den katolsk- republikanske befolkningsgruppe, der er problemet 124 . 124 Visse politikere i det nordirske parlament bliver i avisen dog citeret for holdninger, der konstruerer selve NICRA og protestmarcherne som en trussel mod Nordirland: “Mr James Kilfedder said that the savagery shown by the rioters in Londonderry had only one aim – the overthrow of the Ulster Constituency”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#7) “What could happen in Newry at the weekend he said, could affect the very existence of Stormont and the State. There were forces arrayed for the destruction of Northern Ireland and they were united in a ‘foul alliance’ and conspiracy”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#24) Ugen efter Bloody Sunday, arrangerer NICRA endnu en protestmarch, i byen Newry, syd for Belfast. James Kilfedder er medlem af Stormont for UUP, og hans udtalelser konstruerer NICRA og marcherne som en trussel mod hele Nordirland og dets politiske system. Dette er dog de eneste eksempler i den analyserede periode, på at Belfast Newsletters beskrivelse af NICRA konstruerer som en trussel mod Nordirland. Endvidere bliver NICRA, ligesom IRA, ikke ækvivaleres med den katolsk-republikanske befolkningsgruppe: “The enemies of Northern Ireland would not have achieved anything like the degree of disruption that they measure as ‘success’ but for their phoney civil rights campaign, but for their phoney cries of injured innocence. Ulster, the real Ulster, Protestants and Catholics – will never stoop to the presentations of such a hymn of hate as it’s ‘signature tune’, not for the phoniest world”. (The Belfast Newsletter 1972#36) Selvom NICRA konstrueres som en organisation, der har hjulpet 'Nordirlands fjender' i deres angreb på Nordirland, konstrueres NICRA som adskilt fra den ægte nordirske befolkning, der konstrueres som både protestanter og katolikker. 77
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