I look forward to a full Orange parade down O’Connell Street

SOME have made excuses for the recent riot by arguing that the unionist parade shouldn’t have been held because it was provocative. This is the same excuse that was made against the publication of the cartoons of Mohammed.

I strongly object to the argument that the majority must restrict their peaceful free expression because a small minority of violent racist sectarian fascist thugs can’t tolerate the existence of anything which threatens their view of the world.

To do so would be a cowardly surrender to violent intimidation, which only encourages more violence, because the fascists learn that violent intimidation gets results.