I don't like what the Orange Order stands for - I'm an Irish Republican and a Catholic- but people should of course be allowed to march about whatever they want - but two things make the Orange marches different.
First of all they are not marches or demonstrations, they are parades. They are not about changing the government or its policies. They are about reminding the subjugated Catholic minority that the forces of Unionist Protestantism trounced them once and that if they get uppity again they'll trounce them again. They are inflammatory and deliberately provocative.
Secondly, I can think of no other demonstration or march where the army or police barricade peaceful, law-abiding people in their own homes so that a parade can go past. I can think of no other situation where any counter-demonstration is completely forbidden.
Can anyone imagine the Metropolitan Police in London barricading black people in their homes so that the British Nation Party or the Ku Klux Klan could march through Brixton? I thought not.
These ignorant, intolerant arsehole bigots should be told to parade through their own areas and stop infringing on the legitmate civil liberties of innocent and peaceful communities.