PROTOCOL outrage took a steep dive (even lower than before) last week with the news that loyalist paramilitaries had paid children to riot.
In a shocking development, apparently those wains with bricks at Lanark Way in April '21 were not concerned about the Act of the Union, dual market access, and red and green trade lanes.
They had, in fact, been drawn into drug debts by paramilitary (gangsters) dealers, who then knocked off up to £80 if they went out and caused some mayhem.
SPIRAL
The loyalist thugs, and gangsters who coerced them would feel shame, and if they were capable of shame, and if they were out of bed yet.
In a perfect downward spiral, they exploit children, those children then get a criminal record which limits their career prospects, and thereby become ripe (for the picking) for recruitment to ruining the lives of future generations. It's lose-lose for everyone, draped in a banner of upholding Britishness.
The revelations came in evidence to the NI Affairs Select Committee, which heard loyalists and dissident republicans use the same tactics.
It's coercion wrapped in a flag (of their convenience) wrapped in a drug of your choice and a debt until we say so.
It's almost as if these guys have no scruples at all, which is entirely believable of dissidents who just haven't looked at a calendar and twigged the war ended a long time ago.
With the loyalist lads we were expected to believe those violent episodes, particularly at Lanark Way, but previously in Derry, Newtownabbey, Ballymena and Carrickfergus, were spontaneous eruptions of cultural anger, when it looks very much like it was the work of children who'd been groomed and exploited.
A DUP statement at the time condemned the violence in north and west Belfast and called for a resolution through peaceful and democratic means to the violence caused by "frustration and anger at recent political developments".
It now turns out it was caused by Big Jonty and a large bag of loyalist blues.
Big lads getting wee lads to do their dirty work simply undermines any serious political concerns, but the penny still hasn't dropped that burning a bus isn't a political statement. It just means you've traumatised a bus driver and your neighbours have to walk to work.
INJUSTICE
But the MPs who were listening politely to community experts last week might have forgotten that these exploitated children live in a world where the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) can write to unionist leaders talking about the Injustice of the Protocol, and a potential "unprecedented reaction" to it, while representing the criminal gangs who sent the children out to riot in the first place.
Those wee lads are our future and they deserve much better.
With many thanks to the: Sunday World and Roisin Gorman or follow this link to send her an Email the original publication.
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