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OP - January 05, 2013, 08:58 PM

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police used water cannons to fend off brick-hurling protesters in Belfast on Saturday as violent demonstrations over flying the British flag stretched into a third straight day.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was investigating reports that a number of shots were fired at police lines. A 38-year-man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police said.
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched on Belfast's city hall earlier Saturday afternoon amid a heavy police presence. While the rally passed largely without incident, police then came under attack from a mob of more than 100 people hurling bricks and fireworks. Two men were arrested, police said.
Protesters have been out in force — with sometimes violent results — since a Dec. 3 decision by Belfast City Council to stop flying the British flag year-round.

http://news.yahoo.com/violence-northern-ireland-3rd-day-over-flag-164227056.html

Good decision by the city council. Northern Ireland is Ireland not UK!
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Reply #1 - January 05, 2013, 09:08 PM

What the hell is wrong with those idiots?

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Reply #2 - January 06, 2013, 01:38 AM

What the fuck?

I suppose I can understand taking down the British flag since Ireland is no longer part of Britain.

Still, why the fuck are people throwing bricks at each other? If the British flag is so goddamn important to you people, why not start a petition or protest, as opposed to shooting the goddamn police.

Then again, this is the same kind of country where the stupid fucks inside it are willing to let people die just to be assholes.
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Reply #3 - January 06, 2013, 02:31 AM

We're talking about the country of Northern Ireland, not the Republic of Ireland.

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Reply #4 - January 06, 2013, 04:20 AM

Ah. I assumed this article was referring to the northern parts of the country of Ireland.

That makes this even more stupid. Now not only are the protesters stupid for being violent apes, but the Belfast city council is even more stupid for not flying the British flag. The country is part of the United Kingdom: why the hell wouldn't you fly that flag?

Take the flag down AFTER you separate, if that's really what you want to do.

That being said, why would you want to join Ireland? It's a backasswards country compared to the UK. Oh wait, it's the backasswards people who want to join it...

All in all, Ireland sucks, Northern Ireland sucks, and people should become secular

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Reply #5 - January 07, 2013, 05:49 AM

What is this thread for? A trivial flag protest in Belfast is hardly worth a thread anywhere, so why is this an excuse for the extremely racist bollocks expressed in the post above?

I assume Canada is a delightfully enlightened country, but sethyboy is not a great example of that.

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Reply #6 - January 07, 2013, 06:02 AM

Quote from: sethyboy0 on January 06, 2013, 04:20 AM
That being said, why would you want to join Ireland? It's a backasswards country compared to the UK. Oh wait, it's the backasswards people who want to join it...

You ever been?
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Reply #7 - January 07, 2013, 06:27 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9682839/India-confronts-Irish-government-over-woman-denied-abortion.html

That sums it up.
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Reply #8 - January 07, 2013, 06:37 AM

No it doesn't. You have no right to call any country backwards on the grounds of one news story. You are simply being racist, and I hope you are not representative of young Canadian men in your ignorance.

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Reply #9 - January 07, 2013, 06:39 AM

It's not the news story, it's the conditions that allowed for it to happen.

And there's no racism here. This has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity at all. They could be any colour or from any part of the planet - killing people because of religious laws is NOT forward thinking society.
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Reply #10 - January 07, 2013, 06:42 AM

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And there's no racism here.

Oh yes there is. Your views on Ireland, north and south, are both stupid and bigoted. I'm sure you're not representative of Canadians overall though.

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Reply #11 - January 07, 2013, 06:47 AM

Quote from: Cheetah on January 07, 2013, 06:42 AM
Oh yes there is. Your views on Ireland, north and south, are both stupid and bigoted. I'm sure you're not representative of Canadians overall though.

In what way?

Also, what does it have to do with race/ethnicity?
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Reply #12 - January 07, 2013, 06:57 AM

I didn't mention race and ethnicity. I said you are stupid and bigoted.

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Reply #13 - January 07, 2013, 01:26 PM

"That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
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Reply #14 - January 07, 2013, 01:34 PM

Sethy, if you're noting the decades of sycophancy by politicians, towards the Catholic church, then sure...this is backward. But it's no more backward than having clerics, unelected, holding automatic positions of power in the national parliament, than having a head of state who's also the head of a national church. Heck, if we're talking head of state, Ireland has an elected largely ceremonial president, the UK has an unelected monarch, her and her family having absurd levels of wealth, privilege and power. Now that's some backward shit.

Yes, there are backward elements to Irish society, find me a country in which this isn't true...but a) attitudes towards the Catholic church have shifted to an incredible degree in the past 10 years, and b) you can't extrapolate from this one issue to make generalisations about a whole country. It's not only unfair, but it's intellectually dishonest and incoherent. I feel no particular allegiance to either the UK or Ireland, but having nationality for both I'd say on balance the political situation in the UK is the more backward.
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Reply #15 - January 07, 2013, 03:24 PM

Quote from: chris on January 07, 2013, 01:34 PM
Sethy, if you're noting the decades of sycophancy by politicians, towards the Catholic church, then sure...this is backward. But it's no more backward than having clerics, unelected, holding automatic positions of power in the national parliament, than having a head of state who's also the head of a national church. Heck, if we're talking head of state, Ireland has an elected largely ceremonial president, the UK has an unelected monarch, her and her family having absurd levels of wealth, privilege and power. Now that's some backward shit.

Yes, there are backward elements to Irish society, find me a country in which this isn't true...but a) attitudes towards the Catholic church have shifted to an incredible degree in the past 10 years, and b) you can't extrapolate from this one issue to make generalisations about a whole country. It's not only unfair, but it's intellectually dishonest and incoherent. I feel no particular allegiance to either the UK or Ireland, but having nationality for both I'd say on balance the political situation in the UK is the more backward.

It's not the one issue, it's the conditions that allo...

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I didn't mention race and ethnicity. I said you are stupid and bigoted.

Oh. I'm being trolled.

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