TRAPPED IN A MASONIC WORLD

at. I don‘t want to give my critics the opportunity to say: ―Hark at him preaching, he‘s been the biggest
scoundrel and villain we‘ve ever come across...‖ And for sure, I‘ve been far from a saint, and will explain
and reveal to you what I can about myself.
I was expelled from my secondary school at the age of 15 for assaulting a teacher after suffering years
of mental and physical abuse by him, - and as I‘m writing this book, - which I recommend everyone to do,
and not to let conformism prevent you from giving it a go, or be put off if your grammar‘s pretty bad, or if
you‘re spelling isn‘t too clever; Microsoft‘s Spell-check & Grammar works wonders. Don‘t worry about
the subject matter, or not having some stuck-up Masonic publisher to hand, - as you‘re notice that‘s what
most of them are, - a closed-shop of stuck up each other‘s arseholes - kind of cheese and wine bunch of
pretentious wankers. Simply do your own thing and get it off your chest, and if you can‘t sell it, then give
it to the world as a gift and put on to the internet for free! – Some might say this point of view is a case of
sour grapes on my behalf, - yeah, - and they‘d be bloody right! As what I can make of it, and have to date
experienced in the world of book publishing, is that it‘s as nepotistic as you like and seems to be
predominately owned by interbred proprietors. Just take a look at three quarters of the shit that‘s on our
library shelves, that it‘s no wonder the places are in decline and being closed down, as who really wants to
read the majority of that kind of middleclass suburban crap in the first place? No wonder they‘re giving a
million books away! But even then, if it‘s just the same old constructed regurgitated flannel, then that‘s
not really going to alter the situation much is it. If ‗they‘ supposedly want to encourage people to read
more, and be able to get them at a younger age, - I‘m talking teenagers here, then do so in a language that
‗most of us‘, [the working classes], can understand and appreciate, - and not in a way that you need a
dictionary to accompany the bloody book your reading, which doesn‘t mean you need to resort to a ―Yeah,
but, no but‖, kind of patois either.
So as I was saying, whilst I‘m writing this book, it gives rise to the opportunity for me to say: ―How‘s it
going Mr Waring, - you racist old bugger!‖ What I mean by that, - being a ―racist‖ that is, - I‘ll explain in
a moment. I was at primary school during the 60‘s and in my last year there in 1970. It was this same year
the Short Strand-―Battle of St Matthews‖ took place in Northern Ireland, and which made front page news
and dominated all the media reports in general. Little did I then realise, but there had already been bitter
bombing campaign in the United Kingdom, long before I was even born, when on the 16th January 1939,
the Irish Republican Army [IRA] launched a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civil,
economic, and military infrastructures in the UK, and a number of bombings took place on the mainland
between that time and until the 23 rd of February 1940, when the campaign then seemed to have peteredout.
So obviously as a direct result of these bombings a divide between various English and Irish
communities in the UK then came about, and many an Irish person was looked down upon, - similarly as
that of a Jew was during 1930‘s Germany, and what many a Muslim here in the West are now being
viewed on as. There were some Bed & Breakfast establishments and other racist landlords would
mockingly have signs on their doors or in their windows, stating: ―No Dogs, No Blacks and No Irish‖.
The Northern Ireland riots of August 1969 marked the beginning of what was termed the ―Troubles‖ in
Ireland. Belfast saw the fiercest clashes between republicans [mainly Irish Catholics], loyalists [mainly
Protestants] and the Royal Ulster Constabulary [RUC] who were primarily pro-Protestant. During the
riots, loyalists burnt whole streets in predominately catholic and republican areas. Short Strand is a largely
Catholic and nationalist area [some say ghetto], which is surrounded by the essentially Protestant and
unionist East Belfast. In those days, Catholics in Short Strand numbered about 6,000, while their
Protestant neighbours totalled about 60,000. The following year on 27th of June 1970, violent rioting
broke out in Belfast, and that evening shortly after 10pm, shooting began, and what locals have since
termed; the Battle of St Matthews, commenced. However, even to this day republicans and loyalists
disagree over what truly sparked the violence and who fired the first shots. Republicans and nationalists
claim that the violence was started by a mob of loyalists who were returning from an Orange Order
parade. Ireland‘s biggest Freemason fraternity is known as the ―Orange Order‖, and the members of that
order are referred to as ―Orangemen‖.
They say that the loyalists tried to set St Matthews church alight with petrol bombs and invade the Short
Strand area of East Belfast with the same intention of burning the nationalists from their homes like that of
what happened the year before. Whilst on the other hand, loyalists claim that the violence was started by
the republicans; allegedly when the returning Orangemen and supporters came under attack, and also claim
that republicans attacked homes on Newtownards Road in order to lure the loyalists into a trap. So
whatever really happened, a running battle soon followed in the commune of Short Strand, and where Billy
McKee, the Provisional‘s commander in Belfast, soon occupied St Matthew‘s Church and defended it in a
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