W2E-001 Ulster editorials 1-4.txt
Evil obscenities

Former Presbyterian Moderator Dr John Dunlop has quite properly castigated the perverse ideology that revels in the terrorist "spectacular" and accepts the legitimacy of "production line" killings.

Dr Dunlop, speaking at the funeral service for murdered RUC officer Jackie Haggan yesterday, said the people who engaged in such activities were not into "the politics of persuasion" but were involved in "naked coercion".

The Churchmen's words struck a chord for many in our divided community who have been caught up in the evil of terrorism: "Violence can have a corrosive effect upon those engaged in it and upon those who suffer the consequences. No matter how often these murders take place, we must try not to allow ourselves to accept them as normal, become insensitive to their effects or be destroyed by them"."
