Even more, they are "Loyalist" protesting a man who was gruesomely attacked would was gruesomely attacked 20 years ago by Loyalists. What you are seeing is not protests calling for the police to impose more law and order, but actions ordered by C-Company of the UDA to assert who is in control of East Belfast, and its not the Crown. When I lived and worked over there, a euphemism used by both sides was Community Justice; it was used to exclude what was once the RUC, later the PSNI, from certain areas. What community justice would look like: 2 car thieves were caught red handed by cop in a North Belfast shopping centre carpark. They were a pair of catholic lads. They were duly delivered to an East Belfast street corner, and the cops announced to the locals which traditions they belonged to. Anyone who knows Belfast will know what East Belfast is like. The lads were beaten black and blue, multiple fractures. Car thefts stopped. Was justice served, or mob rule? A protestant car thief was caught, not by the police, near Dunmurry. There was no handing him over to the other side. He was found literally nailed to a farm gate. Someone eyed up a girl in a West Belfast bar. Problem was the girl already had a boyfriend. The would be Lothario was taken to the top floor of one of the Divis blocks, and they shot him through both knees. To drive home the point, the gunmen disabled the lift and blocked the stairwell with a shopping trolley. Then they called for an ambulance, which was jolly decent of them. The delay in the crew getting to the man meant they were unable to save one of his legs. Community justice at work.
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