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St Pauli FC fans

I thought I would lighten the mood a little with a sing-song from our friends of the FC St Pauli Ultras. Enjoy...

UDA looking for backpay

The announcements of loyalist decommissioning this week by General John De Chastelain should be welcomed by all, even if it is a little bit late in coming. But then the announcement that the UDA wanted money in return for guns makes the extra wait a little more plausible. If I stay in work for a few extra hours per week, I get overtime pay. I guess the UDA leadership believe they are entitled to overtime for the work they have done over the years trying to expunge the world of people other than themselves. Maybe they think they are entitled to a refund for the guns, and maybe they would be better off going to South Africa for repayment, provided they have the receipts of course. I have never understood when the IRA began decommissioning their weapons in 2001, that the UDA were allowed to keep their guns for so long. Were they trying to find all the receipts? Or maybe they were keeping them in case a Romanian insurrection occurred in South Belfast? So what will the outcome be? Quis Separabit Armorum? Maybe they could go see what the scrap man will give them.

A favela é, um problema social

Collusion between armed drug gangs and so called security forces in Brazil, inspired a French artist to use photography to bring the attention of the world to the Rio de Janeiro favela or shanty town where the violence took place. Brazilian soldiers were arrested after the killings of 3 men by a rival drug gang. The men were detained by the soldiers and brought to a rival drug gang's shanty town where they were shot dead.The subsequent outcry from the people of the favela resounded with the artist who in response took photographs of their faces, and plastered the photos on the walls of the shanty town and places of interest in Rio de Janeiro.

Racial hatred in Belfast

Not satisfied with the beating and killing of their own countrymen, now the mob turn their ire upon people from half way across the world. Up to 100 Romanian people, about 20 families, were forced to flee their homes as racial hatred reared its ugly head in south Belfast. Police used a minibus to evacuate the people from their homes in fear of reprisals for an earlier anti-racism march that had taken place. The families are being cared for in a Church overnight.

The scenes, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, being played out in the Lisburn road area of Belfast, should be condemned and the people responsible brought to bear for hate crimes, and prosecuted under the full extent of the law. This makes me wonder which Triangle are these people going to have to wear?




Reference:
Christy Moore. Yellow Triangle. YouTube. Click on picture.

Picture of Romanian newspaper seller Belfast 2009
The Prehistory of the Crisis (II)
Susanne Bosch, Anthony Haughey, Daniel Jewesbury and Sinead McCann