I mentioned in my 12th July post yesterday the braindead teeny-bopper with the UFF flag wrapped around her while I was watching the Orange parade head towards the field. When I returned to watch the parade on its return leg, I'm sad to say the situation had deteriorated quite a bit further.

How not to encourage respect for the Orange tradition

By the time I got to the main road where the parade would pass, a crowd of morons had already, in the time-honoured loyalist tradition of acting without thinking, erected banners of the UVF/YCV (and not the historic versions) as well as the UDA, as well as waving flags from those same organisations. It seems some of the braindead populace of Belfast are determined to oppose any efforts by the Orange Order to broaden the appeal of the 12th July celebrations.

Come on lads, wise up. The organisers want to get rid of all this bullshit from the celebrations. It's not like they're planning to include Irish tricolours in the parade or ask Sinn Fein (either directly or via their "residents groups") to give speeches at the field on the evils of Protestantism. It's in everyone's interest to ditch the paramilitary glorification. That includes the Orange Order, the loyalist communities and of course Joe Q Protestant who just wants to bring his kids for a day out to watch the bands without exposing them to banners or chants glorifying murderers.