to be utterly sick of protests, marches, rallies, and riots

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What happened today in Belfast was dreadful. Of course it was.

When Sarah Everard died, there were marches. But a day before she died, an Indian woman Sarah's age was knifed to death in the street in Leicestershire. It was an "honour" killing, I think.

Where was HER lantern on the doorstep of Downing Street? Where was HER march?

My point is, dreadful things happen every day and I am so sick and tired of news items sparking so much public rowdiness. It used to be that the media could report on current events without starting a riot. I know that we have always had riots, but they were the occasional one. And because they were not common, they helped effect change. They were a desperate measure reserved for when nothing else had helped.

Now, together with marches, rallies, and protests, society is constantly disrupted, and I am so, so sick of it. I live in a major city and I can't go anywhere without checking what march, rally, protest, or riot is happening, especially at the weekends. And they are so common that they don't help effect change anymore.

The riots are terrible. Thousands and thousands of pounds' worth of lost property in fires, injured bystanders, police calld away from other duties to attend them. And there are "professional" rabble-rousers who travel to marches, protests, and riots. It's not because they're passionate about a cause. They're just passionate about causing trouble.

I travel for work to major American cities and it's even worse over there. Another day, another riot/protest/march/rally.

They have become a feature of today's society, and I wish they would just stop.

Edit: I actually stay in more because of them. I don't go out of my hotel as much when staying in America, and I don't go to the city centre where I live as much. It's so bad when regular people are put off from walking around city centres because of all these annoying dickheads.

I think it is worse in America, and I'm tired of feeling scared to go out when there, in case I run into an uncontrolled crowd - where the police have guns, and the protestors might, depending on the state.

The burning buildings in Belfast are a disgrace. It's not the owners' fault that this happened.

You don't think the entitlement and culture of a white man who went to boarding school could have been changed to avoid him attacking later? It was inevitable was it?

I mentioned the DV rates increasing.

It got ignored. Because these people do not care one ounce about women and children

Where has this strawman argument about women and children come from?

The riots are in specific response to someone nearly being beheaded on the street

Protests are happening on local issues (Henry Nowak killing) and on what's happening thousands of miles away (Palestinian). Those people all believe they isn't change things by protesting. None of them care about how it affects others. These Protests dont appear to.cgangw anything much though, they appear to increase hatred for a section of society.

Violent protesting is even worse, does nothing useful.

I can’t think of any examples of an attempt being made by anyone to publicly execute any man or women regardless of colour except for the Lee Rigby murder.

Can you give an example?

Other than that the nearest i can get to is the Sarah Everard murder where the abduction was going later out retrospectively publicly and there were many demonstrations.

The peaceful protests of yesteryear that asked for a specific feasible thing like votes for women are a far cry from the never-ending civil unrest we have today that numbers in the tens or hundreds of thousands and has no clear or stated aim except to create anarchy.

Protest and riots are different thing. Certainly march but burning cars and homes isn’t going to help anything

Demonstrations being the key word.

Farage actively called for the police to be protected in the wake of her murder and called for calm.

You’re literally proving my entire point. This lot who go out burning shit down when it’s brown people doing the killing could not care less when it’s white people doing the killings.

What an absolute word salad.

Hang on, let's get this clear

Good people (racists): kick in the doors of people entirely unrelated to the crime that has been committed and set homes and buses on fire and say I am a good person for doing it

Bad people (anti racists): say setting homes on fire is bad but say I am a good person for saying that.

And it's the second group who are the problem?

where the abduction was going later out retrospectively publicly

I can't make any sense of this sentence. Can you put it another way?

If you read the thread title and the original post it was about riots and protests in general not just the most recent one. Although the situation in Belfast is particularly awful right now.
And even in Belfast where a man was attacked some of the online rumours were that a child was the victim (they weren't) and people kept referencing women and children not being safe.

Is it a strawman? The people going out rioting are the ones who shout “protect our women and children!!!” when asked why they want immigration to fall.

There were the Northern Irish two policemen that were hanged. There are more recent cases to. Buts that the first that comes to my mind.

What does that last paragraph mean?!

In your view, what makes a killing a public execution as opposed to a common murder?

1. It's got to happen in a public place
2. ?

I, and a million other millenials, learned protest does nothing during the Iraq war. The largest protest in UK history, 700,000 people, with a clear aim - the UK should not support the US in a phony war. The protest was replicated across many countries in Europe. It was peaceful, "All police leave in the capital was cancelled for the event, though Scotland Yard later said that it passed off almost without incident."[44]

It did nothing, because government's don't base their decisions on protests.

Do I have the post the stats again?

Net migration is down

Small boat crossings are down

More asylum cases are being processed and refused. With people being deported.

Most of the current 'crisis' is due to right wing Brexit lies and subsequent arrogance in negotiations.

The public are being listened to, Labour are working hard on what they know to be a serious issue, but they have to act responsibly and legally.

Reform and Restore or just shit stirring from the sidelines, whipping up hatred and civil unrest. They don't care about this country; Farage is barely here and doesn't attend parliament most of the time, and Tice lives in Dubai. Rupert Lowe constantly embarrases himself with his ludicrous claims.

It's upsetting to see so many triggered and played people in the 'Belfast' threads, practically celebrating people being burned out of their houses.

The people setting fire to homes are being whipped up first by someone trying to behead someone else on the street, and then by the media and politicians responding to that by telling us that racism is the worst thing anyone can be.

If you REALLY want the riots to stop, you'll condemn the policies that allowed these people to come here, condemn those that downplay their crimes and support full and frank discussions about what to do about it.

Except the marches and protests are constant and are also absolutely huge, thanks to social media and professional anarchists. Tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands. It's got beyond a joke. The sheer size of a march can mean it's not peaceful given that its size causes so many problems.

Demonstrations are better, and they should be held in London's huge parks, instead of gridlocking huge swathes of cities meaning that ambulances etc. can't get through and people's lives are constantly, constantly disrupted.

Don’t be absurd - you’re not even attempting to discuss this in good faith.

the point - if you had an ounce of reading comprehension is that people understandably get angry when they feel a tragedy could have been prevented.

the easiest way to prevent a brutal attack is to ensure the person who commits the brutal attack is not present.

That’s not about race it’s about location. The fact you’d assume that the criminals on bail and violent psychiatric patients that I referenced were black speaks to your own bias and racism.

And here it is. Ladies and gentleman.

Bringing in rapists and murderer is on par with homegrown ones. Apparently. We must sacrifice public safety at the altar of woke by actively increasing the numbers of violent criminals in the country.

This is on par with the argument you see on this very forum from rape apologists who say that increased rape and sexual assault is a price worth paying for progressive causes like open borders.

People should get angry at injustice. Peacegul protest never hers action. It would be better if some of the anger was more rational, and not just directed in the places certian people direct, often for their own ends, but we're really in trouble if people stop.

Lie.

Illegal immigration, especially small boat numbers are are record highs. We have more illegal migration now than we had legal migration in the 90s.

And nearly a million immigation into the country is not exactly something to celebrate. The numbers are out of control.

The vast majority of rapists are white British men. Even if we stopped all immigration tomorrow and got rid of every single immigrant we would still have huge levels of VAWAG and we should apparently just accept that

I never mentioned black people.

You’re the one continually saying we need to accept violence from British men because it’s fine, because they were born here

Irrelevant. Some attacks are preventable others aren't