The leader of British-occupied Ireland’s Orange bigots — David Trimble, the parliamentary leader of the Ulster Unionist Party — is still stalling and obfuscating in his efforts to make certain that Roman Catholics will not attain equality in jobs, housing and politics as the 1998 Easter peace accord mandated they would.

Trimble has turned the Irish peace process into a farce with his tactics of finding pretext upon pretext for not allowing the process to proceed. It is time that the British and Irish governments take measures to see to it that this wielder of monkey-wrenches is not allowed to further sabotage the road to peace in British-occupied Ireland. How long are the Catholics of British-occupied Ireland going to be subjected to seeing their children harassed by angry mobs of Orange bigots? When will Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair put an end to this intolerable situation?

Nordlander is a member of the Fox Valley Board of the American Civil Liberties Union and is a resident of Menasha, Wis.,”Robert E. Nordlander”

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