I am shocked! I am absolutely stunned!

I am so angry at what I witnessed just now. I AM REPUBLICAN, and I just witnessed former comrades punch and beat residents off the streets and off Brits in my own community. People/residents, who like myself objected to a sectarian march being forced through nationalist area by armed RUC/Brits/SF!!

I just want to ask, What the fuck is happening when I just witnessed Provies attacking members of their own community from getting stuck into bastards who had us under siege all day!

Is this what we have come to, beating people for the sake seats at Stormont. What I saw today has changed the way in which I see my life and the politics that I thought I had in common with fellow republicans. I feel sick and angry, I am in shock and in disbelief. I turn to a neighbour on the way who asked me "did I really see what happened there?"

I have to say that I felt the question running through my head.

Am I the enemy now? Does SF/Provies see me and the community that I belong to as the enemy for opposing a sectarian march and all that comes in its path?

If that is what it takes to have a few seats in power then I'm afraid these people no longer represent me!!

MM Occupied North Belfast