On behalf of the members of LOL 496, I wish to place on record our disgust at yet another disgraceful, and totally unacceptable, determination by the Parades Commission.
For many years now, through the actions of the police and now the Parades Commission, we have been prevented from marching on 12 July to lay our wreath in memory of our glorious dead.
And, once again, as we gather in Dunloy on the Twelfth morning, our civil and religious liberties are being denied to us by a Parades Commission which seems intent on pandering to threats from militant Republicans. The Commission has lost any credibility in the eyes of law-abiding people, and its decision in relation to our parade here this morning is a studied insult to the Protestant and Unionist people of this area it is time for this failed quango to go.
As law-abiding members of the Loyal Orange Institution, we have no desire to confront the forces of law and order, but this should not be regarded as a sign of weakness on our part. We are angered and hurt by the decision to restrict us here this morning, and justice demands that this situation must not be allowed to continue.
WM. John Finlay.
No Surrender.
God Save the Queen
