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.

But there was riots over the killing of Henry Nowak but his murderer was not an immigrant?

Don’t be so disingenuous, you know full well the frustration around Nowak’s murder was about the way the police treated him because of race and the prioritisation of other races over indigenous Europeans.

Ah still lying, I see.

Peaceful protest rarely changes anything.
People are sick of speaking, shouting, peacefully protesting and STILL politicians do not seem to hear or care for the opinions and frustrations of the electorate.
That's on them.

Henry Nowak’s killer was neither mentally ill nor black.

And I thought the Sudanese man arrested in Belfast was granted asylum in 2023 (under Sunak’s government)?

I read research recently (relating to the Nottingham murders) that there is a clear correlation between extreme mental health (leading to psychotic episodes) and cannabis use which is much more prevalent among certain cultures/communaties.

Please stop saying ‘woke’ and ‘gaslighting’

It makes you sound like an idiot and someone who spends way too much time on social media.

You seem more concerned with repeating these two words over and over, instead of having anything actually credible to say.

I think it’s all just as bad as each other because it’s all the same thing - male violence and anger.

The attempted murder of a man in the street by trying to behead him is disgusting. The attempted murder of families by setting their houses alight while they sleep is also disgusting.

Could you point us to your condemnation post? TIA

More lies. The guy in Belfast was an asylum seeker. He had been given refuge status for 5 years.

This thread is so full of lies from the fast left, it’s unreal.

Anything to deny the fact that we have a problem with uncontrolled immigration.

There's absolutely nothing that is achieved by setting fire to homes and busses and smashing up streets. Protests are great, our right and something that can be powerful.

People smashing up their neighbourhood will not change anything, other than perhaps the laws to stop people doing this in the first place, taking away more of our freedoms.

Could you point me to yours.

Why do the woke gaslighters get so offended and triggered by being called out.

Can you please link your statistics showing that sexual and physical violence are perpetrated at higher levels by migrant men.

Against the white people you meant

She must have recently learnt the words woke and gaslighting and now thinks they make her look intelligent 😂😂

She’s not even using them correctly half of the time 🤦‍♀️

They certainly will be push to the far right if a government declares being upset over adults and children being murdered makes them far right. Anyone not far left understands it is a bad thing for a man to attempt to behead someone in the street.

“Indigenuous Europeans” ….good grief.

She won’t even say she thinks the attempted murder of babies by setting their houses on fire is wrong 😂

The Nottingham killer had been left unchallenged and on loose because the authorities were concerned about being accused of incarcerating too many black men. The inquiry has concluded.

Henry Nowak’s killer was unchallenged while Henry lay dying despite repeatedly saying he had been stabbed. Because the police care more about race baiting than protecting people against crime.

The rape gangs were left to rape because being accused of racism is worse than protecting children.

A pattern emerging, isn’t there.

Being upset is one thing. I am upset and angry.

I didn’t go and set a house alight.

He was not in the country illegally.

Shouting 'lies' at people - which is all you've done over the whole thread - isn't a great argument. Who even is the 'fast left'? Lol.

A migrant tried to hack the head off a native and you are peed off with the protests about this savagery?

What do you think would happen if the ethnicities were reversed and the crime took place in Khartoum?

I want these unwanted foreigners gone.

But I do question the logic of being upset of the murders of adults and children and then attempting to burn adults and children alive in their homes as a response. Seems inconsistent.

Certainly triggered you though. Wonder why.

Funnily enough the uk state refuses to record this information.