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Belfast violence; what would happen if ALL marches were banned?

Would it give certain groups (id est; the lawless sections of Loyalist parties) reasons to latch on to the paranoiac politics of the mainland...racism, immigration and just plain old hooded-eyed attitudes the populist media tend to stir up in times of recession. You don't facilitate peace by banning things - especially in Northern Ireland, but would such a movement create another set of 'us & them' rules, with not only Romanians?
What ever happened to Diamond Dan, by the way?
Curt...drink your Ovaltine and get yourself to bed, son!

If you ban these Orange men from 'their god given right to march' (all sounds a bit like that reverend in the US who encouraged his congregation to brings guns to church as its their god given right as Americans to do so!! Yeah!!! I'd love to know this god, sounds like some sort of insecure lunatic, but I digress) then they would argue the St Patrick's day parades (note parade, not march) would need to be banned too. So banning them would do no good and it solves nothing, just antagonises all the communities in NI. Who has suggested they should be banned?

The Orange people should march if thats what they want, but it should be depoliticised, and kept to unionist areas, or areas shared by the whole populations, why they feel the RIGHT to march down an area where the only objective is to upset the people that live there is beyond me. Can you imagine a Paddys day parade down the Shankill road? Everyone has a right to celebrate their culture, but not at the expense of their neighbours right to self respect and a peaceful existence.

Its important to remember some parts of NI are used to solving their problems with violence, no matter what any media may say about it