Loyalist flag riots leave 29 police injured in Belfast as violence escalates

Well if you do not know who you are Gordon how do you expect me to know.

seano, what on earth is a West Brit? Explain please.

Seeming police inertia may be attributable to a number of possibilities. (i) Fear of recrimination by individual police officers who may be known to volatile crowds. (ii) A public relations exercise to show police being attacked by lawless-ist mobs. (iii) Inexperience of younger officers after years of relative peace.

Compare the lengths the british terror state will go to in snuffing out peaceful indigenous civil rights protests (shooting into crowds of unarmed civilians, torture, internment, random harassment and brutality, specifically targeting children) to the passive crowd control tactics it employs against the orange supremacist thugs who are unleashing rampant and unprovoked violence against non-combatants throughout the occupied statelet.

Now that the orange thugs have attacked and firebombed nationalists homes will they bring in the army to protect nationalist lives and property!! I think not,that only happens when the pro British are under siege. The hypocrisy of it all. The police are talking softly and carrying a "small" stick

Why do the media keep using the words ..protests and demonstrations, these from day one have been riots, causing millions in damage, the throwing of petrol bombs, injuring police who are just standing silent, and rioting down catholic area's smashing windows. Almost 2 months of this now, with one day given to peacefull demonstration on Saturday, This weekend almost 4000 loyalist have been rioting all over Belfast, and it will spread further if the police just stand doing nothing. If it was the other way round nationalists/catholics rioting it would be a competely differant story with the media and even our own RTE television in the south.

CENTURIES OF OPPRESSION AND DEATH AGAINST THE IRISH,now when some small measure of justice is blooming this crowd of oppressors will have none of it,agreement is not in their vocabulary,NO SURRENDER IS THEIR MINDLESS MANTRA.WHAT they forget,all of them north south uk,is that we are a multi culteral community where individual flags have little relevance any more,only to retard fanatics.Fly all the multi nation flags that now inhabit ireland and the uk and let the majority of people who just want to get on with peacefull living do so.

The Rt Hon 1 st Min made an interesting Freudian slip in an interview from Stormont with Mark Mallet of UTV last Mon. About the flag protests he said: "It's time for the violence to start!" Then realising his slip, went on to correct himself hastily by saying "I mean end!" (YouTube it, unless censored!) When you speak out of both sides of your mouth at the same time, you're bound to get tongue twisted sometime. BBCTV Sunday Report showed Health Min Edwin Poots rounding on Alliance unionist moderate Naomi Long in a shameful display of self preservation. Only goes to show you, when you're a truth speaking lamb amongst ravenous lying hyenas (even within the same tradition), you'll be unmercilessly set upon for doing so, and being such. If there had been more Naomi Long's in the British and/or Irish Isles, Ireland may never have been partitioned. And a voluntary democratic alliance rather than an imposed imperial unionism between them would have saved countless lives, and created opportunities for everyone. Perhaps it's not too late. The future lies in the centre.

"where have all the west Brits gone" afraid to condemn their patethic bullyboys out of embarrassment. Nice piece Joe Glackin.

Riobinsons playing on their emotions of bigotry and hatred as usual . Then trying to cover his own Hatred by being Mr God fearing, cross community Politician. Howq many innocent Catholic murders were inspired by him ,Paisley,McCrea,Dodds, Wilson & Co,.

A little to late with words of peace coming from one of the perpetrator of the recent violent outbursts of unionism in the north east of our country, remember Peter your call to target the Alliance party was heard by your loyalist terrorist friends and they responded in their typical unionist /loyalist fashion of the old days.You are not fooling us Peter just like the leopard your skin is,nt going to change anytime soon.

Unionist leader Peter Robinson urges protesters to turn to the Good Friday agreement is another political folly as these Loyalists wouldn't understand "Agreement". Moreover the Agreement ensures certain prisoners like Gerry McGeough should not have been arrested in the first place. Thats not the case though.

Nothing about these Loyalists rioting, nor their treatment for public disorder etc surprises me. Iv seen them in action recently and the measures taken ,speaks volumes. Firstly, if these were Nationalist/Republicans/Catholics ,how many at this stage would be seriously injured or dead from plastic Bullets. Would Nationalist/Republicans/Catholics be allowed into central Belfast in the first place. Nothing has changed regarding our communities treatment ,to Loyalist /Orange/Masonic/Protestant aggression. Its such a folly watching how they are herded away with water cannons. The main thing here is,. these are poor victims of total injustice due to seeing less of their claimed flag . How frightening that their actions of rioting etc are nearly justified. They are frightened or whatever as to have something justifying their existence. They are Cultureless, moronic, nomadic beings etc. In the Blocks during the troubles Republican prisoners did courses improving their standard of education etc. Loyalists spent their time muscle building in the Gym. Like their Neo Nazi ,Arian ,supremacist, brotherhood do also. The KKK even come over to the marching season. I believe the BMP are in Belfast presently . They are fighting to hold onto an identity that never has been in existence.It would not take too long for the Police to control them but thats not the Protestant Church endorsed Orange/Masonic agendas. Anybody from our communities here have seen this, as also those generations gone experienced. ,

In one breath Robinson flys the GFA banner and the rule of law and then gives succour to the rioters by sympathising with them because they are "disengaged". He never had the same sympathies for nationalists youth rioting because they were "disengaged" for over 50 Years. The unionists and there press minions like Mc Kittrick use disengagement as a euphemism to support the Orange bully boys. I wonder what is the real agenda here.

He addresses himself to NI and GB, whilst denying the inconvenient geographical truth that Ulster-Scot immigrants cohabit the host island nation with c5m indigenous others. Surely a problematic paradigm in the context of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) his political overlords have with them. The ultimate shared future is an united Ireland. The ultimate road blockage is the commissioned boundary. I appreciate he has to pitch his narrative cautiously not to spook the more reactionary footsoldiers of imperialism. But parition has gone on too long, and needs to be dismantled before its centenary at the very latest. These loyalist lads need to know that a united Ireland will not be as bad for them as they've been irrationally led to fear. Better to influence something from within that to fear it from without.