AIBU to question the media response to the Belfast attack?

[Squirrel001]

Why are the media being silent on the Belfast attack?

Is the open borders narrative that important to them that they feel the need to ignore one of the most horrific attacks ever seen on a UK street?

I despair for the future of the UK. It’s grim.

@Piglet89
Why do you say this?
Are there many English people in this area and have some been killed?

The very first post on this thread tries to make it a competition, calling it one of the worst attacks ever on a UK street. My link makes it clear that, no, it is not, there are many other attacks equal if not worse - and also explains why as a NI catholic, my instinctive, prickly back of the neck, visceral fear reaction would be to certain types of people who would be attending protests, rather than the immigrants they are protesting against.

I'm not interested tbh if it was loyalist or republican terrorists and gangs committing various murders. My point was it was reported on, we got chapter and verse for years.

You seem to know a great deal about men who vote for Reform. Surmising how they treat their wives or have been in prison or almost have. Mind you the charming man who whacked a woman with a sledgehammer was an out and out leftie. You don't have to be Reform voter to be a nasty b*astard.

A glider bus on fire, homes burnt out and black nurses requiring escorts to an from work and it's not even nightfall yet.

If you give 2 hoots for the people of Belfast and northern Ireland watch the northern Irish News channels, watch Belfast lives Facebook feed. Sit with that. Sit with the violence and loss that is about to happen overnight in every community in the name 'prtacting are people' and see what the stoking of racist fires brings.

Do you care though? Do you care about the suffering of people in northern ireland? Or do you only want to stoke your racist and anti immigration rhetoric?

Nor do you have to be an immigrant

Reported on yet you've no idea of the ins and out because you got the bare basics the British media wanted you to have.

'Do you care about the suffering of people in northern ireland?'

The people of NI seem to care a great deal hence the protests.

Someone said you never hear anything about NI. I said we had the 'troubles' for years disproving that theory. I don't care whether republicans or loyalist gangs were the worst, it was all reported on was the point.

Another shit-stirring thread by a right-wing bot.

These are not 'the people if northern Ireland's these are the dreggs of society happy to use any cause to inflict violence. The people fo northern ireland I know are horrified. They're worried for friends and colleagues. They are worried for their kids. Their livelihoods. Not because of 1 random attack last night but because of the violence, damage to property and God alone knows what else that will happen tonight

They are worried about the toll on the already stretched and underfunded health service from the inevitable casualties, the costs to the fire service, the cost of policing, the putting aside once again of questions of healthcare, childcare. Schooling, SEN services. The putting aside of all the important devolved government policies that need sorting out so they can deal with the violent dreggs once again.

And you need to think this won't stoke existing secterian problems, that there aren't much more complex things at play than you can fathom within all of this. And I'll tell you what the women of northern Ireland are saying

They are asking where the riots were for the murdered wives and daughters at the hands of their own men, they are asking where the protests are for the women and children quietly hushed up by local paedophiles. Once again all those things are pushed aside for a political agenda that puts them last

That’s it? Nothing on a horrendous crime

Nope I said there is massive under reporting of serious violent incidents in northern ireland, making the point that it taking a few hours for this to reach the BBC I not some racist cover up.

Then along you came with your supposed knowledge

Of course not. It’s not how the ‘rent a progressive’ crowd operates.

How on earth would genuine anger over a murder lead to.....setting fire to a bus?????

It's an excuse for violent thuggery and nothing more.

Same background same knowledge, same fear.

Same rage at the continued use of northern Irish violence as a political pawn to serve the UK right wing agenda

Yeah, because nothing says I care about my country like rioting, setting cars alight, burning a glider, 100 masked men marching through a village to attack a house, burning homes and businesses and causing £££££ of damage.🙄

They are not concerned patriots, they're thugs.🤬

They are probably well reported in Northern Ireland. I saw several news articles from NI media outlets when I googled.

Lots of violent crimes don't get into the national press, only local. This one is widely reported because it is particularly horrific but the occasional violent crime in Sidcup or Bromley won't make mainstream headlines.

Horrible business..

Have you commented on the crime yet?

A pointing out of the violence suffered by the people of northern Ireland over the years and how little of it has been due to immigrants

Meanwhile those valiant "protectors of our women" Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate are cavorting around Moscow, presumably unaware of widespread rape and torture in occupied Ukraine, the youngest victim being four years old.

Not because it is particularly horrific but because it fits the anti immigration agenda.

Read the thread for other horrifically violent crimes perpetrated in northern Ireland in the past few years. This isn't the most horrific.

Yep.
We’re all right wing bots, apparently.

Wishful thinking. Sadly these 'protests' show these hideous views abound in real life

People are going to get hurt tonight, suffer, potentially be raped and murdered at the hand of these 'protestors' and their mob mentality. Not that the wider UK will ever know because while it's northern Irish killing northern Irish they don't give a hoot