Is East Belfast Violence Justified ?

[modeller]

I can't find a post on this problem so I would like to hear your views on the violence by loyalists in NI. Where does the fault lie. ?

[modeller]

Thanks for all your answers. I wonder why the councillors didn't foresee the result. Did they carry out any public consultation ? If not I think they carry some of the blame.
I think Gromit got it right #Flags and emblems have a completely different meaning and context in N.Ireland than they do in the reat of the UK.#
That being the case it should have handled differently. It may have been democratic within the council chamber but it was not intelligent.

[ichkeria]

The violence of the protests has taken people by surprise and the timing of the vote may have been unfortunate, but I suspect if you were to ask the decent majority of ordinary folk in Belfast as opposed to the flag wavers and youngsters being manipulated currently. then they'd go along with the current status quo. The latest violence it seems is the result of a maverick UVF leader in E Belfast. And there can be no going back on the council decision unless by another democratic vote.

[mightyWBA]

I don't think using violence against the Police is justified but protesting is.
I'm struggling to think of any other country in the world where the national flag would be removed so not to upset a certain section of the local community.

I live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and our nations flag is the Union Flag until it is decided we all go our seperate ways.

Couldn't imagine the stars and stripes be taken down anywhere in the USA!

[NOX]

No but why should we have the flag inflicted on us 365 days per year when other areas of the UK only have to fly it on certain days- because that is bowing down to pressure from the Loyalists? As many have said, flags and symbols in the north of Ireland take on an almost otherwordly importance, and a balance has to be struck. I can think of no fairer way of doing this than to concur with the days the rest of the UK fly it.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure I'd want to say it is justified, but it is understandable and so obviously predictable. One wonders what the heck was going through the authorities' mind when that was voted in. (If anything.)

[NoMercy]

Violence is never justified. Never.

[ichkeria]

Absolute right NoMercy. Above all my waffle and everyone else's, this question actually has a very simple answer.

[Old_Geezer]

Good job the Allies didn't use violence in the last word war then.
Simple answers usually have a flaw.

[Old_Geezer]

WORLD !
>:-(

[ichkeria]

What I meant was that violence is not justified in this instance. I wouldn't want to compare a war against Fascism with the mindless behaviour of mini-Fascists.