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Mon 11 Nov 2002'The people of Ulster are not fooled''The IRA fascist agenda has been adopted lock, stock and barrel'. The following is an edited version of the Rev Ian Paisley's speech to the DUP conference."In every generation, since the plantation settlement in Ulster in the 17th Century, traditional unionists have been forced to defend to the death their heritage. We fight an enemy which recognises no laws, owns no honour, is unfettered by no shackles and is determined to wade knee-deep in the blood of their own co-religionists to achieve their objectives.