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2009-07-14 Britain

Northern Ireland Police Attacked During Parade by Orange Order

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Posted by Steve 2009-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Protestants insist on the parades going through mainly pro-Irish Catholic neighborhoods.

What a bunch of total assholes.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-14 07:18|| 2009-07-14 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 even if there were only one religion in Ireland, even if there were no rich and poor in Ireland, even if the Brits left the emerald isle tomorrow the Irish would still find some excuse to beat the piss out of each other. The Irish just like to fight. Makes me proud of my heritage.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-14 09:36|| 2009-07-14 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The Orange parades are pretty much designed to provoke rioting. Mob violence is sort of the point.

Maybe they ought to just evacuate & cordon off the parade routes, make sure they don't bring in anything more lethal than boards with nails through 'em, and let them have at each other for a week in July. Sort of like the Pamplona running of the bulls, except with welfare cheats & chavs.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-14 10:21|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-14 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Broadhead6; while I agree the Irish love to fight, the history of these parades aka "the marching season" goes back for hundreds of years. After the battle of the Boyne the British used the Scottish Protestant population to keep the Catholics in check. And, like other oppressed groups, the Irish Catholics have long memories regarding the wrong(s) done to them. My father was an Irish immigrant in the early 1900's, first to Scotland and then to America, and he had strong memories of "the marching season".

Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-14 11:19|| 2009-07-14 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 This is one case where 'turn the other cheek' might just work. If the dickhead protestants march through and nobody is there to watch, nothing would happen. Of course, there would be no fun in that...

Posted by Unique Battle 2009-07-14 13:14|| 2009-07-14 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Unique Battle: this is one of those "it only takes one side to make a slaughter" situations. If the Catholics didn't show up for the rumble, the Orange will just keep marching until their gangs take over the drugs-and-whores trade and otherwise make free with wot belongs to the Catholics, or else until the Bhoys come out t' play.

It's why they call it "marching season". They go on until they get a reaction.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-14 16:21|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-14 16:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Wolfdog, I was being hyperbolic - I know the history. I've walked through Shankill in Belfast as well as have visited the IRA cemetery in Belfast - I've had ancestors on both sides of the conflict - my dad's patrilineal people come from Derry & the other side is from way south in Cork. I walked through where the Bogside happened as well as have seen the Brit barracks in Derry up close. There are people of my last name burried in the IRA cemetery and I even have a distant relative that was a noted protestant hero of the siege of derry that has a club named after him to this day.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-14 23:31|| 2009-07-14 23:31|| Front Page Top

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