evidence: In response to increasing IRA presence and influence, loyalists developed groups to protect their communities from the IRA. The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) formed from an alliance of these neighborhood groups, and though individual members had weapons, the UDA was not officially armed. Later, more dangerous groups like the Ulster Freedom Fighters and the Ulster Volunteer Force arose to meet the desire in the loyalist community for a more violent approach. Thus the 1970s began with an increasingly panicked government and two communities that were organizing and arming themselves. [...] The Ulster Unionist Party began to fall apart, a process quickened by the rise of the Democratic Unionist Party, founded by the ever-charismatic Reverend Paisley. He announced the formation of the party in the rubble of an IRA bombing, dramatically setting to tone for the party, which, in effect, gave a political presence to all those of militant loyalist ilk. Faulkner’s Northern Irish government, in an attempt to control IRA violence, began to implement internment on a large scale. The Catholic community, alienated by the heavy use of internment on top of their previous complaints, began to strike and protest with a new intensity.