"The priest said girls, many of them dressed for a night out — “At one stage it looked like a Milan catwalk,’’ he said — had come to watch masked, hooded boys riot. He said boys in turn appeared determined to impress the girls with their bravery as they hurled bricks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails against a backdrop of cellphone camera flashes... alcohol and drug abuse fueled the dangerous behavior as police doused the crowd with jets from a water cannon"
Wet T-shirt contest!
"Belfast leaders implore youth to end rioting against police" by Associated Press | July 15, 2010
DUBLIN — Political and religious leaders pleaded yesterday for Catholic teenagers and children engaged in Belfast rioting to stop before one of them is killed and becomes a martyr for Irish Republican Army dissidents.
Oh, so the anti-Muslim Zionist War Daily is also anti-Catholic. No wonder I'm not liking them much these days.
Their appeals follow three nights of street mayhem in working-class Catholic parts of Belfast that one priest described as “a
Children as young as 9 have been attacking static lines of riot police, while other youths cheer them on and take photos for display on social networking sites such as Facebook.
I'm not on Facebook, sorry.
So far 83 police have been wounded, none critically. The heavily armored officers have responded with water cannons and volleys of blunt-nosed plastic bullets capable of cracking ribs and skulls. No serious injuries among rioters have been reported, although injured rioters often avoid hospitalization because they could face arrest....
So the cops are acting just like Israelis, wow.
Go take a "blunt" plastic bullet and see how pleasant is the experience and get back to me.
Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin warned that IRA dissidents trying to whip up opposition to Northern Ireland’s systems of law and order “are actually hoping that one or more of the rioters will be killed or maimed in their conflict with the police, so that a new generation of martyrs for the cause will inspire others to follow.’’
You know, I would have bought the "terrorist" bit except:
Who are the "terrorists" again?
The violence began Sunday night before mass Protestant parades by the Orange Order brotherhood, an annual event that always inflames sectarian tensions between the British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority.
Yeah, that isn't a provocation or anything, marching right in front of their faces!
The violence spread to several Catholic parts of Belfast, the second-largest city of Londonderry, and the towns of Armagh and Lurgan.
A Catholic priest who works in Ardoyne, a traditional IRA power base at the center of this week’s trouble, said local youths want to attack the police regardless of any Orange provocations because they consider it fun.
Shoe on the other foot there, 'eh, coppers?
“Recreational rioting is the term,’’ said the Rev. Gary Donegan, 46, a priest who has spent the past two nights trying to disarm youths and get them out of the streets....
Sort of like mowing down a crowd of unarmed innocents and lying about it for nearly 40 years, right?
The priest said girls, many of them dressed for a night out — “At one stage it looked like a Milan catwalk,’’ he said — had come to watch masked, hooded boys riot.
He said boys in turn appeared determined to impress the girls with their bravery as they hurled bricks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails against a backdrop of cellphone camera flashes.
Those crazy kids!!
Donegan said alcohol and drug abuse fueled the dangerous behavior as police doused the crowd with jets from a water cannon, but did not charge forward in an attempt to arrest anyone.
He said Ardoyne authority figures — among them IRA veterans once involved in organizing riots — tried all night to take rocks, bottles, and stones out of children’s hands, but they would not listen....
That's the world today, isn't it?
Over the past three nights, evidence of dissident IRA involvement has been apparent. Police have come under live fire from handguns and shotguns at least three times, homemade grenades and pipe bombs have been thrown, and a Belfast-to-Dublin passenger train with 55 passengers narrowly escaped being set on fire.
Yeah, I wonder who could have been doing those things.
So which MI5 or 6 officer is on that FRU case?
In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron lauded the Police Service of Northern Ireland for exercising restraint in the face of potentially deadly attacks.
“Anyone watching the pictures on our television screens last night could see how brave, how restrained they were in the way they dealt with completely unacceptable behavior,’’ he told the House of Commons.
What, looking for love?
Interesting how when his crap government and its murderous war machine tosses around larger-scale explosives in the mountains of Afghanistan that is somehow converted to liberation.
How IS that IRAQ WAR INQUIRY coming, anyway?
Many Belfast residents are calling for more aggressive tactics to scatter mobs and arrest the most prominent hooligans.
Yeah, beat those kids down!
And don't think the kids don't get the message, either.
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I forbid you to see that boy.
Yeah, that really works.
