Ulster

There has been little in the media about this week's riots in Belfast. Is this because to make a big issue of it is to invite comments about the Good Friday Agreement and the lies told to try and fool us into thinking an honourable settlement had been achieved rather than appeasement? As with issues like immigration it is always those at the bottom of the economic ladder who suffer the brunt of the consequences of ill thought out policies. Those higher up the food chain can always tut tut about the reactions of those they consider inferior. This is not to say that the the UVF is not an odious organisation - it is. What though has happened or hasn't happened over the last few years to generate the level of violence we have seen this week? Nothing that I have read or seen on television or heard on the radio has supplied a satisfactory explanation. All one can hope is that those who should have prevented these kind of riots from happening are now working out how to prevent them from happening again. A bit of honesty might not come amiss for a start including openness about what weapons decommissioning actually meant. As we know it was a lie to pretend that weapons had been put beyond use. The IRA knew it, so did the UVF, so did the police and so did the rest of us who paid attention to what was going on in Northern Ireland. Decent law abiding folk in Northern Ireland deserve better.