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                                                                                                                                                                                    1971 AD - 4 

September: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Government in 1922 and still under the control of  the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, William Hull had formed the Loyalist Association of Workers / L. A.W. and carried out rallies and speeches under the Ulster Flag of the Red Hand. He was demanding a military solution in these 6 Counties in Ulster stating he was British to the core but would take on the British Conservative Government if they tried to implement the re - unification of Ireland. The Rev. Ian Paisley and William Craig the other two Unionist hard - line leaders in the 6 Counties in Ulster, once again, also joined forces for the continuation of the Ascendancy cause there, and the Rev. Ian Paisley the also set up another organization of his own to be known as the Civilian Defence Corps. 

     In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, John Hume the M.P. from the S.D.L.P / Social Democratic Labour Party and Ivan Cooper the non - Catholic M.P. were arrested by the British Imperial Military forces and interned in Derry in Co. Derry, "For failing to move on command of Her Majesty's Imperial Forces," under the Special Powers Act that authorised detention and internment. This was the very thing that they had been protesting about, and they were later released on bail, and subsequently appealed the charge and found a loophole in the Government of Ireland Act 1920. According to this Act when the British Imperial Government artificially partitioned the 6 Counties from the 9 in the Ulster Province they had included that," The Stormont Parliament was to have no power to make laws in respect of either the British Imperial Army, the British Imperial Air Force or the British Imperial Navy. The British Imperial Military had acted beyond it's powers at the behest of the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government and even the Internment was also illegal. Edward Heath the British Prime Minister and the Conservative Government, as usual, hurriedly changed the law to suite and brought in a Northern Ireland Act of 1972 to legalise all the British Imperial Military actions in the 6 Counties in Ulster. Reginald Maudling the British Conservatives' Home Secretary said that they were now entering a new phase, with " Transfer of Responsibility," which meant the transfer of powers from the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government at Belfast in Co. Antrim to the British Westminster Government, which would eventually bring the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government to a sudden end, and the British Imperial Government in England taking over Direct Rule in these 6 Counties in Ulster.

September 6th: Jack Lynch the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic met with Edward Heath the British Conservative Prime Minister at Chequers to bring about a sensible solution for all of the people in Ireland and then had further discussions with both Edward Heath and Brian Faulkner the "Official" Unionist Prime Minister, in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, to discuss the Sunningdale Agreement, which was to become a reality in the future, but nothing was to come of it at this time.  

September 26th: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, David Bleakley the Labour Party member in the Stormont Parliament resigned, and stated that he could no longer serve in an "Official" Unionist Party Government especially since the introduction of, "Internment without Trial."

October: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, a Green paper was produced with the intention to bring in Proportional Representation thereby increasing the size of the Stormont House of Commons and widening the Stormont Senate.

    In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the British Imperial Military forces strength was now up to 13,600 soldiers and they also raised 3 more Defence Regiment Battalions and began the demolition of the minor roads along the artificial border with these 6 Counties in Ulster. Brian Faulkner the "Official" Unionist Stormont Prime Minister now appointed a Catholic, Dr. Gerard Neve to his Cabinet at Stormont, who was to be the first Catholic ever in the Stormont Government, but unfortunately he had no idea what was going on and the "Official" Unionists themselves were by now completely out of ideas. The R.U.C. police were once again carrying side arms and also Stirling machine guns, and the secret groups among the individual Unionists were also growing in strength. William Craig the Unionist hard - liner also formed a Unionist Steering Committee in Portadown, with himself as the chairman, to formulate policies to suite the Unionists in these 6 Counties in Ulster.

November: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the interrogation carried out in the Internment Camps on those prisoners who had been taken under "Interment without Trial" under the "Official" Unionist Government in Stormont was at an end. General Tuzo the British Imperial Government Military commander had previously acted on the list drawn up by the "Official" Unionists and had by now begun to realise finally that he had taken mostly only political prisoners. They were not the ones that he himself would have wanted to take into custody, and he was now forced to admit that the disruptions and killings because of this would continue to go on. The Crompton Commission found that some torture had been used on the prisoners they had "Interned without Trial," and Jack Lynch the Prime Minister in the Irish Republic took their case to the European Court of Human Rights, which found the British Conservative Government guilty of, "Inhuman or degrading treatment." The P.I.R.A. / Provisional IRA / Provos were by now also much stronger under the leadership of Sean Mac Stiofain / John Stevenson, and they now increased their attacks, causing great damage to property, and the British Conservatives were also now having trouble getting any further cannon fodder to use in the 6 Counties in Ulster as their recruitments fell away.

December: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, Brian Faulkner the "Official" Unionist Prime Minister in desperation of coming up with a positive solution now granted limited recognition to the Rev. Ian Paisley's Civilian Defence Force. There were to be great disturbances and violence occurring now throughout these 6 Counties in Ulster, and Edward Heath the British Conservative Prime Minister himself made a flying visit to these 6 Counties in Ulster to try and lift the spirits of the British Imperial Military forces there. Mac Guirk's Hotel was also bombed in Belfast in Co. Antrim, where another 15 people were killed, and the population there were so enraged that they then killed a British Imperial Military soldier who was sifting through the rubble.

December 29th: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, the I.R.A. had previously declared a ceasefire over the Christmas period, but a British Imperial Military soldier from the British Light Air Defence Regiment was shot dead in Derry in Co. Derry on this day, and there were further riots in the Bogside area.

December 30th: John Mac Cabe the aged I.R.A. bomb expert died in Dublin, while preparing bombs to be used by the I.R.A. in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, after an explosion was caused by a spark from his shovel. The Official I.R.A. in these 6 Counties in Ulster set fire to the home of Major Ivan Neill who was the Speaker in the Stormont Parliament there.

December 31st: In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the "Official" Unionist  Stormont Government and the British Conservative Government. another explosion occurred in the city of Belfast in Co. Antrim and there were now so many people being killed and injured in these 6 Counties in Ulster that there was no chance of any normal life left to the population there. The shooting war between the British Military forces and the Provos due to their lengthy gun battles meant they lost too many men.

        173 people had met with a violent death during this year in these 6 Counties in Ulster, compared to the 25  civilians the year before, surely someone in authority must have noticed things were not getting any better. Among the 173, there were for the first time 48 young British Military soldiers, 11 R.U.C. police and 114 innocent civilians, and 1460 bombs had also been exploded. These 6 Counties of Ireland had been artificially partitioned by the British Imperial Coalition Government in 1922, as they were then suffering from their Conservative bruised egos, and they knew full well that this would ensure some sought of ethnic sectarian Ascendancy was to be maintained in Ireland itself, supposedly under their direction. The deaths, destruction, lack of democracy and terror of the last 50 years that had continued under a total Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government there was directly of their making, as any decent person with the authority they originally possessed would have faced up to the truth in the first instance and brought it to an end there and then, as they always had the power to do so. But despite this terrible ongoing loss of human life and suffering, they were to carry on just like David Lloyd - George had done initially, to prove their continuing British Imperial position that might is right and their total indifference to the human suffering that followed was totally unforgivable. They had learnt nothing from the anguish and misery they had caused during that time or the many losses of their own young personnel, that they had incurred since, from their desire to prove a point and hold onto their Imperial Empire. They always seemed to be devoid of actual humane feelings for the innocent people who were supposed to be under their Imperial care, and authority, especially in Ireland, and paid no heed of the ongoing human suffering, right or wrong. (Once again, Power leads to corruption and Total Power leads to Total corruption.)

      In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, and still under Edward Heath and the British Conservative Government the next year also was to see another 500 people meet with similar violent deaths. 

                                                                          
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