'this means that they are,in the eyes of British Law,members of an "Ethnic group with a language and a culture of their own",which means that the police cannot and will not arrest them,no matter what they do,for fear of breaching their "Human Rights".'
-bubblyrat

Could you please back up such a ststement which is exactly the kind of remark often associated with provoking racist sentiments and promoting resentment and exactly the tactics employed by the BNP in their recent campaign in this area


While it is true that the economic slowdown in the six counties has led to tension over competition for jobs, and resentment that Poles and others were entitled to welfare and housing benefits local politicians point out that immigrants from Romania do not have the same economic rights as earlier European Union arrivals.

In addition I can see nothing criminal in the behaviour of these Roma immigrants who have suffered massive discrimination throughout Europe.
Roma people are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police ill-treatment

However the criminal behaviour of the rightwing loyalist mob of white youth chanting Combat 18 racist slogans may never be prosecuted

On June 1st this year Kevin McDaid, a Catholic youth worker beaten to death by a loyalist mob was buried

The Northern Ireland police ombudsman's office is investigating allegations made at the weekend that a police officer sent a mobile phone text to ­Coleraine loyalists saying that local Catholics had put up an Irish tricolour on the estate where McDaid lived.
There were claims that the police officer's text prompted a loyalist gang to organise an "invasion" of the Heights area of Coleraine, which ended with McDaid being beaten to death and his neighbour, Damian Fleming, in hospital on a life support machine.

Dr Peter Shirlow, from Belfast's Queen's University stated
"If you listen to unionist politicians during this European election campaign, all they talk about is more money for Protestant areas. They emphasise only one community instead of talking about a shared, united society. So if politicians are fighting a resource war for their rival communities then it's no wonder those communities still the other side as the enemy."

The attacks on the Roma were not sectarian however they most cerainly, like the earlier attacks on the Chinese community, were racist.