Has the annual face-off at Ardoyne finished with no major damage done? Perhaps.
But the dissidents who vowed to fight the PSNI at the time of their choosing (preferably behind a brigade of stonethrowing teenagers) know that they have notched up points from last night's rioting.
The images of arrogant Orangemen storming through areas where they are not welcome, protected by a police service still far removed from the community it's pledged to protect (the most telling example of that was that there's not one PSNI officer in the entire west Belfast area who can speak Irish - more Comber than Commedagh, still), are all pluses to the dissidents.
They affirm their dictum that nothing has changed. And, looking at the TV images and the international coverage, you have to admit they're onto something. In fact, if they can organise enough riots, and no doubt the Orange Order is happy to oblige with its coat-trailing parades, it really will be 1970 all over again.
The icing on the cake for the dissidents, of course, will be if (when?) the PSNI actually kill someone with the plastic bullets which should have been banned long ago. Then they may just have a recruiting agent stronger than their anti-SF rhetoric. One wrong move from the PSNI and we're all buggered.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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We were all buggered long ago when Sinn Fein stuck it to the Irish language.
Of course, Sinn Fein is just like their role model, the Catholic Church. They are always in denial of any responsibility for anything, but they always portray themselves as being the righteous.
The Catholic Church has its long history of paedophilia which it continues to be in denial, and Sinn Fein has its long history of sticking it to the gaelscoileanna which it likewise continues to be in total denial.
Can the Sinn Fein leadership not understand that when you destroy a child's future, the chickens must come home to rest at some point?
Can Sinn Fein not sum up two and two?
I know, blind as a parish priest.
The theological and political dogma is that the working class and their children must always fend for themselves.
What happened in the Ardoyne does not benefit anyone.
We have too many ignorant parish priests in political power.
Martin,
There is no accountability on the part of the PSNI. They have no interest in west Belfast or north Belfast. They do not live here nor would ever want to live here. There is always another excuse. You do not see the PSNI producing any sort of 'results' that benefit the local community. Their job to ride herd over the unruly natives during the day and then return to Hillsborough and Hollywood in the evening for the good life.
The political folks only care if it dimishes their perceived sense of control with London which means they might/do not have the influence they have been claiming for years to have. Less control means fewer potential privileges for the party. Less control means they are effectively powerless and/or have little influence at street level, regardless of the elections, so there is/would be no need to deal with us.
There is no need to negotiate with the weak.
it's charming how establishment media went to some pains as it described the same most lethal plastic bullets as 'non lethal rounds'. I heard it frequently on RTE yesterday and no doubt it also featured on the BBC/UTV reports.
I think the rioters played into the hands of the Orangmen who are loudly claiming to be victims of 'ethnic cleansing'. As if. Rioting is not the answer to the questions posed by the PSNI providing a praetorian guard for the Orangmen - Nelson McCausland, the Minister for Monoculture, amongst them - as they marched their 'traditional route'.
Any response to Éirigí's asstertion that it was drunken loyalists who provoked locals with sectarian songs and abuse? Or to their challenge to SF and the media to prove their involvement in the rioting? UTV's shabby link between organised 'dissidents' and the rioters was that 'known republicans were seen in the area.' youths organise themselves for fights these days on bebo and the like, so i dont see why it's assumed without hard evidence that 'dissidents' had to have organised it, unless the accusers have a political agenda
Anon 2,
Sinn Fein feels their sense of control is now threatened by some kids and teenagers. It must remind them of their younger days.
SF has not delivered anything for north Belfast, so all they can do is condemn.
The best defence is a strong offence, as the old saying goes, even if it is nothing but hot air.
The young people have no inspiration in their lives. Now, if Sinn Fein actually did something about providing a proper inspiration, they might be able to make a significant contribution to peace with justice.
Right now, there is neither in north Belfast.
Hope this is not too intellectual, but here goes. Students of Animal Farm will no doubt see the similarity between Gerry Kelly and the pig Napolean. In the tale by Orwell, whenever anything went 'wrong'; things that made the 'revolution' seem ridiculous; it was always the work of the hidden hand of the dissident Snowball. Never, a short-coming with the leadership. And the sheep would go Baaah! and the birds would get into a tizzy when the evil Snowball's name was mentioned by the 'men in the know'. All of the underlying ills of the 'new society' were blamed on the character who thought that the 'revolution' was flawed and was expelled for his viewpoint. The bogey men of the 'Dissidents' is the excuse now spouted from the mouths of the 'new intelligensia', when the fact is that we still live in a bitter wee state and transparent attempts at taking the high moral ground are pathetic. Four legs good,two legs bad.
dont see anyone here raising concerns about gerry o reillys home being attacked (shame),the only winners here are the cops who get stacks of overtime,danger money and more reasons to recruit more informers as well as the p.u.l (protestant unionist loyalist community)who are sitting back loving our community being fragmented by a bunch of racist/sectarian bigots who walk down a road every year with the sole purpose of causing tensions,the attack on community workers smells too much like johnny adairs tactics,and where is johhny whats his name now ? shunned by his community.
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