🚀 go-pugleaf

The situation in Belfast is a lot more complicated than the meager news
articles one reads here. I have family over there and one wouldn't believe
the hatred and blantant bigotry. Try uk.current-events.n-ireland and
ni.politics to understand what is happening every day. As a native
Floridian, I am glad that I live here
Catriona


Fabrikant wrote:

> Some very troubling pictures are coming from Belfast.  Catholic
> children are harassed by Protestants, who do not want children to pass
> by their houses on the way to school.  Children are escorted by their
> parents and police.  They are terrified.  There is another, safe way
> to school, but it leads to the back door of the school, and Catholic
> parents insist on going through the front door.
>
> This is one of those conflicts, where there are no "good guys": it is
> one group of low-lifers fighting another group of low-lifers, and do
> not hesitate to use children as pawns in this fight.  It is also sad,
> that yellow media do not ask the right questions in their interviews.
> The right question to ask the Protestant is: "You have problem with
> adult Catholics; don't you think, it is low for you to harass
> children?" The following question should be asked of Catholics: "Is it
> worth to expose your little children to terrifying situation, which
> can be easily avoided by going through another door?"
>
> These Catholic parents should have their parental rights annulled due
> to deliberate endangering of their children.  This is not Alabama
> fight for desegregation.  This is a little lousy quarrel on which way
> to take to school, where both sides have displayed extremely low moral
> qualities.  A normal parent would never expose his children to any
> danger for the purpose of advancing his fight.  Even if there were no
> safe way of going to school, a normal parent would not send his child
> to school at all.  Children come first.
>
> We all know about deadly fight between biker clubs.  They kill each
> other, but they never attack or harass any of family members.  If the
> organised crime has the decency to exclude children from their
> fighting, should not the so-called law-abiding citizens do the same?
>
> Fabrikant
>
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