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New Cult Threatens Ulster Children
Ulster is in dire need of someone to save us ... from Harry Potter apparently. A DUP Councillor for Ballymena, Roy Gillespie, has determined that Harry Potter is a dangerous 'cult' - a touch melodramatic from a man whose party leader is head of a church where line-dancing is considered a sin and Guinness "the devil's buttermilk" (disgusting yes, but surely that's a bit harsh).
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince is due out on 16th July at a midnight unveiling and Gillespie is urging people not to attend. He also said the timing of the release was 'suspicious'. (What the fuck? Based on this story, I've created a new category for posts called 'Local Wackos' - I can forsee more DUP politicians ending up in here before too long.)
Follow up:
Gillespie had this to say:
"These cults with their stories about witches are damaging, especially to young people who would be better off saying their prayers."
I have two children and one granddaughter and I would not like to see her standing at midnight being told about witches and wizards.
Children should be well tucked up in bed with their prayers said by that time."
I hope you Ballymena DUP voters are all proud of yourselves, letting fucking wackos like this into local government. It's not like you didn't know his track record! (Apparently he once defended the council's banning of an ELO concert from Ballymena Showgrounds. Why? The 3 Ds, apparently. "Drink, Drugs and Debauchery." ELO?)
My opinion? These cults with their stories about people dying and coming back to life are damaging, especially when you force them down the throat of young people who would be better off growing up with an open mind.
I have no children or granddaughters but if I did, I'd feel better about them standing at midnight for a new book about witches and wizards, which they know is fiction, than dredging off to some wee building every Sunday to have stories that are almost as preposterous fed to them as gospel, as it were.
Maybe it's time people started thinking about ways of bringing up kids to behave well through means other than instilling them with fear of repurcussions after death, eh?
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By Elinor Rigby
Thursday 23rd June 2005
A children's fiction writer is urging parents to boycott the launch of the latest DUP policy document in the town next month.
JK Rowling (no relation) says the series of vote grabbing manifestoes amount to a "cult", and contain material totally unsuitable for young minds.
He is appealing to parents not to take their children to the special midnight unveiling on July 16 of the sixth instalment – Ian Paisley and the Half-Baked Political Party - at the town's newly opened public conveniences at the top of Slemish.
Describing the specific location chosen for the launch as " suspicious", the author said people would do better to buy a copy of Viz.
"These cults with their stories about being outbred by Catholics are damaging, especially to young people who would be better off playing with their Playstation 2s," said Ms Rowling
"public conveniences at the top of Slemish."-and if you want to talk about Ballymenas decline prehaps you should talk to the Dublin drug dealers who supply the town with its heroin....look i know this is a good excuse to slag the loopers who (unfortunatly) still find a voice with the dup - but try not to show yourself up as a degenerate bigot by imparting secterian digs at people just because of their town. sheep s£$%gers have feelings to.
I really am disappointed in some of the siege mentality displayed on this site at times. Everything has to be them and us!
"degenerate bigot ... imparting secterian digs"
I'd think you should clarify or retract that statement:
Who is JK bigoted against, how were his digs sectarian and what therefore makes him/her 'degenerate'?
the degrading charicatures of Ballymena are always (that i've seen) been aimed at its protestant residents- and a prominant one of these is that all the residents are buffons (its a great big shopping centre in Ballymena hie......)Given also that the remark "- at the town's newly opened public conveniences at the top of Slemish" was made in the context of a dup public meeting i see no reason to think that this remark is any different- i apologise to Mr. Rowling if i am wrong- however i think the fact that this was a ballymena man who made these remarks( Gillespie)was an underlying theme in his satirical post, you know in terms of fundamentalist hysteria i agree with what he says, but i think he unfairly attributed an indication of mental incompetence to the people of this town -this i feel was a sectarian generalisation.
I slag off Ballymena all the time - although no more or less so than somewhere like Fermanagh (the sticks) or Londonderry (spongers).
I still think the conveniences at the top of slemish was more of a dig at the DUP than Ballymena anyway lol. In fact that was the only piece of the post even remotely related to Ballymena so I think an "underlying theme" was a bit harsh.
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If anything, I think these are the sorts of stories that the Ulster Unionists should be keeping records of with a view to unearthing them in the run up to an election!!
also your right it is the only bit that relates to sham city, the first mention is"
at the town's....." why use the word 'the' if Ballymena wasnt in your head to begin with?........
sorry now im just being silly. jk your post did make me smile so sorry if your the victim of my raging parinoia.
ps if not everyone's after me, why am i so parinoid? can i actually leave my pope proof bunker?
I've forgotten the rest of your post now and am just wondering where I might acquire such a bunker! Kidding...
although if it could keep Pope Paisley I out ...
ANNNNYWAY... to the original point I was making.. could any DUP supporters who happen across this post please explain how they feel to hear this sort of rant coming from one of their own? Would you like to see a Northern Ireland where books like Harry Potter were banned? (or burned?) What about the (blatantly awful, but nevertheless not ban-worthy) "Jerry Springer: The Musical" or the film 9 Songs which had Willy McCrea so up-in-arms?
But i think our frivolities hide a bigger issue, that the once proud town of Ballymena has been laid low by one of the worst drug problems in Ulster, but that the good people in Ballymena can rest assured their being pro-activly protected from this (clearly leathal) kiddies book. The D.U.P. are in power because there was no real alternative... (although theve been in Ballymena from the word go......) if they arse around with stuff like this to much ,given the way things stand,it'll be more farcical than even the worst ribbings we could dish out
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