SEEMS THINGS DONT CHANGE FOR SOME BACK HOME?
Republicans won't be happy until the last Protestant has left the west bank of the River Foyle, a prominent loyalist in the city said yesterday.
William Jackson was speaking after the latest in a series of post-Christmas attacks on his home just inside the Fountain estate.
He claimed that they were being attacked because they are Protestants living on the west bank. "That's all it boils down to," he said. "We are getting it every night here and there is only so much that the Protestant people can take." "Until such times as there are no Protestants left in this estate here at all then we will never get peace," he said.
In the latest attack, late on Wednesday night, a petrol bomb scorched the newly-decorated porch of Mr Jackson's house, after bouncing off a perspex-screened window. He, his wife and three children were at home but they escaped injury.
But he has no doubt that the republican gangs will return, as they have shouted threats of 'Jacksons, we are going to burn you out' while regularly bombarding with petrol bombs, stones and bottles their home, which is situated just inside a 'peace fence' off Bishop Street.
Jackson said: "As long as they are only talking it, and not trying it. "But this is them saying they are going to do it sooner or later. Until then, I am prepared to stick my ground."
He said that the Community Restorative Justice group had tried to disperse the mobs that came from the Bogside- Bishop Street-Brandywell area, but that the young people weren't listening to them.
He said that the almost-nightly attacks had been carried out by about half a dozen youths at first, but now a mob of around 50 was laying siege to their house during the hours of darkness.
Mr Jackson said that they had asked the Housing Executive to give them fire extinguishers.
"They have declined and said that we would need to be trained in them and all the rest of it. But it's not their lives that are it risk, it is ours."
The DUP, who have condemned the harassment of the Jacksons, have called for improved CCTV in the Fountain.
It goes to show that the community restorative group does nt work with out the threat of the i.r.a behind them so s/f should abondon it and put their support behind the p.s.n.i
Republicans won't be happy until the last Protestant has left the west bank of the River Foyle, a prominent loyalist in the city said yesterday.
William Jackson was speaking after the latest in a series of post-Christmas attacks on his home just inside the Fountain estate.
He claimed that they were being attacked because they are Protestants living on the west bank. "That's all it boils down to," he said. "We are getting it every night here and there is only so much that the Protestant people can take." "Until such times as there are no Protestants left in this estate here at all then we will never get peace," he said.
In the latest attack, late on Wednesday night, a petrol bomb scorched the newly-decorated porch of Mr Jackson's house, after bouncing off a perspex-screened window. He, his wife and three children were at home but they escaped injury.
But he has no doubt that the republican gangs will return, as they have shouted threats of 'Jacksons, we are going to burn you out' while regularly bombarding with petrol bombs, stones and bottles their home, which is situated just inside a 'peace fence' off Bishop Street.
Jackson said: "As long as they are only talking it, and not trying it. "But this is them saying they are going to do it sooner or later. Until then, I am prepared to stick my ground."
He said that the Community Restorative Justice group had tried to disperse the mobs that came from the Bogside- Bishop Street-Brandywell area, but that the young people weren't listening to them.
He said that the almost-nightly attacks had been carried out by about half a dozen youths at first, but now a mob of around 50 was laying siege to their house during the hours of darkness.
Mr Jackson said that they had asked the Housing Executive to give them fire extinguishers.
"They have declined and said that we would need to be trained in them and all the rest of it. But it's not their lives that are it risk, it is ours."
The DUP, who have condemned the harassment of the Jacksons, have called for improved CCTV in the Fountain.
It goes to show that the community restorative group does nt work with out the threat of the i.r.a behind them so s/f should abondon it and put their support behind the p.s.n.i
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