It Must be Marching Season

[give her dixie]

i wonder how many of the bandsmen videod by the psni will be interviewed or arrested on public order offences?

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/753320367687503873

Im very familiar with this incident. A longer video of this tape exists but won't be put on social media. It is being held back for evidence for the up coming  court case. Its damning for the loyalist band and the British state police.

Disgusting scenes all right. Watching the Police stand by as thugs spit on Paudie and taunt him about his house been burnt is
sickening. So much for shared equality eh? This annual tour of nationalist towns by sectarian bigots has to stop.

[seafoid]

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/newton-emerson-bonfires-are-now-more-about-underclass-defiance-than-loyalism-1.2720622

"Irish flags, nationalist election posters and even Catholic religious items are placed on the pyres. But so are symbols of gay rights, racial equality and, this year, the European Union. Whatever polite society is for, the bonfire builders are obnoxiously against.

Last week Sinn Féin reported a "hate crime" after posters of two of its politicians appeared on a "family fun day" bonfire in Portadown. The arbitrary concept of "hate crime" epitomises the social conventions and control that many bonfires are deriding – and if "hatred" is prosecuted while all the other laws that bonfires break go ignored, the derision will be doubly successful.

Looking at the pictures posted online by Sinn Féin what is striking is how little fun the families seem to be having. Few in number and glum in appearance, they are skulking at a world they must know holds them in contempt.


I am from Portadown and can remember when bonfires attracted a more varied crowd. They were never a night at the opera (I have a friend who lost his virginity at one, aged 12), but a respectable sample of the Protestant population, in both senses of the word, would have visited a bonfire briefly or at least driven around the main sites for a look. Their gradual withdrawal reflects a critical difference between unionism and nationalism.

Sinn Féin stamped out the nationalist bonfire tradition, marking the August anniversary of internment through a plan of community action. Unionists do not work like this. We sense that something is wrong and drift away quietly one by one. What is left behind becomes socially unacceptable – and those we have left behind become somebody else's problem."

Unionism is in a death spiral

[red hander]

We can but hope

[seafoid]

That Albert Armstrong sword murder story is gruesome

[SHEEDY]

i wonder how many of the bandsmen videod by the psni will be interviewed or arrested on public order offences?

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/753320367687503873

Im very familiar with this incident. A longer video of this tape exists but won't be put on social media. It is being held back for evidence for the up coming  court case. Its damning for the loyalist band and the British state police.

Disgusting scenes all right. Watching the Police stand by as thugs spit on Paudie and taunt him about his house been burnt is
sickening. So much for shared equality eh? This annual tour of nationalist towns by sectarian bigots has to stop.

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/756542610659868672

Have to say I'm 'gutted' at this news.   

[Moortown Spuds]

i wonder how many of the bandsmen videod by the psni will be interviewed or arrested on public order offences?

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/753320367687503873

Im very familiar with this incident. A longer video of this tape exists but won't be put on social media. It is being held back for evidence for the up coming  court case. Its damning for the loyalist band and the British state police.

Disgusting scenes all right. Watching the Police stand by as thugs spit on Paudie and taunt him about his house been burnt is
sickening. So much for shared equality eh? This annual tour of nationalist towns by sectarian bigots has to stop.

https://twitter.com/irish_news/status/756542610659868672

Have to say I'm 'gutted' at this news.   

Do you glorify in that sort of act? What is your reaction when they arson attack a GAA clubhouse?

The people that burned that bus are scum. Any person that gets their kicks seeing somebody else's pride and joy burnt is a complete dose of sh1te.

[charlieTully]

For you to stick up for that sc**bag uda bands pride and joy makes you a complete dose of shit.  f**k the scum bastards.  Have you seriously any idea what these tramps have been up to over the years?  Dickhead.

[Moortown Spuds]

For you to stick up for that sc**bag uda bands pride and joy makes you a complete dose of shit.  f**k the scum b**tards.  Have you seriously any idea what these tramps have been up to over the years?  d**khead.

Yeah- good man. Burn more out which will result in more gaa grounds being targeted.

Hardly sticking up for them. Condemning an arson attack is not sticking up for.

The tone of your comment tells us a lot about the class of person you are.

[omagh_gael]

So some tube takes the law into their own hands, burns this bus and think it's deadly and loyalist band lose the day. Wrong.

This act will result in the reinforcement of loyalist 'culture' being under attack within this myopic, backward community. Any damage will be repaid to the value of the damage goods plus more so this reprehensible 'band' will end up getting a brand new bus.
The worst potential outcome, however, is that a local GAA club will suffer a similar fate and a whole community will suffer through the rash, idiotic actions of one or a few individuals.

[Hereiam]

Probably burned it themselves.

[imtommygunn]

Two wrongs don't make a right. Still no excuse to be scumbags.

As og said it will be used to further the everyone hates us spin and our kulture is being oppressed. Despite a small percentage of parades being turned down and more parades than ever occuring annually.

[SHEEDY]

Probably burned it themselves.

your probably not far wrong, the fact they had all their band equipment stored on the bus would lead to suspicions. new bus and new equipment for the scum.

[Hereiam]

Just a coincidence that in the past week or two a grant has been reinstated for marching bands to buy equipment.

[Milltown Row2]

Probably burned it themselves.

your probably not far wrong, the fact they had all their band equipment stored on the bus would lead to suspicions. new bus and new equipment for the scum.

I've no love for any bands, triumphal crap and rubbing peoples noses in it, do you also view the RA bands as scum??

[general_lee]

Good riddance. My heart bleeds for the Dervock UDA. Not condoning it because for a start I am sceptical it was an actual "sectarian" attack to begin with. I just hope they don't use it as an excuse to target a GAA club