A Smarter Class Of Catholics

In the middle of the economic crisis, those who keep tabs on the minutiae of life have noted that college-educated workers are less likely to be out of work than their working-class counterparts.

That being the case, it's no surprise that Jim Allister is concerned at the overabundance of Catholics...yes, Papist, popish, Rome-rule Catholics...are taking over Ulster's universities.

As if that wasn't bad enough, there are foreigners taking up spaces that could be used by God-fearing Protestants. Foreigners from...gasp...the Republic of Ireland!

They gave up their guns and they've gone on the attack on another front, a sneak attack that will have devastating implications for the future. "I will be writing the Vice Chancellor" of the University of Ulster, says Mr. Allister. Something must be done to recruit Protestants and defeat the Catholics at their own game.

The Catholics will get all the benefits of a third-level education, and then they'll reap those benefits at the expense of an uneducated Protestant population. Benefits will include such things as important positions in the law and medicine, in politics and executive suites where policy is made.

It's a very slippery slope, with the Protestant overlords sliding to the bottom of the heap. The next step is nearly unthinkable: the unification of Ireland.

Don't think it can't happen. Isn't Martin McGuinness, a Shinner from Northern Ireland, running for the Irish presidency? What do you think he's got on his mind besides the reunion of all thirty-two counties?

Too many Catholics in Ulster's university system is a danger to be addressed, and Mr. Allister is going to attack that problem with every fiber of his Protestant being. After fighting against Catholicism for centuries, he isn't going to sit back and let the Catholics win back their country.