Moral Lepers

Some of the British state's greatest fans have been squealing for the right to be shielded from the consequences of the British state's actions. A rather small gathering of the Protestant Coalition demonstrated outside Belfast city hall, protesting Stormont's decision to flood Northern Ireland (population: 1.85 million) with fifty-one Syrian refugees. The good Christian folk were met by a rather larger demonstration of political heretics and religious renegades, and a civil debate was had under the benevolent auspices of the local riot police. "All you need is one extremist to come - and they said they are coming -and we will be burying our dead," proclaimed one Protestant Coalitioner, who has clearly learned the lessons of history: namely that the cure for the virus of extremism is to live as though in a leper colony.