Belfast Hornets

A cartoonist and a team of UK vigilantes create some needed modern Belfast beauty in a year of great global depression.

A comic book approach to UK democracy, inspired by Kick-A*s! Enjoy, 

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A great comic book artist in Belfast (Northern Ireland) decided to create a special series of simple artworks depicting the UK yearning for inter-religious commercial coops/life between Irish-Catholics and British-Protestants who lived alongside each other as a minority-majority disparity after the partition of mainland Catholic Ireland, leaving the Belfast Irish minorities to live with the British-Protestant majority descended from generations of English colonial settlers. This generated great angst, socioeconomic disparities/inequalities, unemployment, poverty, and guerrilla-actions/protests and even violence with British police-military by the 'Irish Republican Army' (IRA). Well, this comic book artist, Amlan Satan (an Algerian-American capitalism political cartoonist) penned works about simple daydreams such as empty vases waiting to be filled with green flowers by both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland!

AMLAN SATAN: My artworks are simple and just and reflect a civilization fascination with self-idealized/recovered innocence!

Now, the famed/infamous 'troubles' between Irish-Catholics (e.g., Irish Republican Army) and retaliatory aggressive British-Protestant forces (e.g., Ulster Volunteer Force) yielded forms of great explosives and danger and violence, and kids (Catholics-Protestants) wandered around simply frightened of seeing daily fireworks and bombs and gunfire, and often they'd pass by British police-military vehicles on fire. All this was caused by frustration/poverty created by socioeconomic disparities created by neglect by UK Parliament, which was something Sinn Fein, the legal/political' branch' of the IRA, tried desperately to improve.

Forms of underworld 'vigilantes' rose to prominence in Belfast (Northern Ireland), and they formed an Irish-Catholic street 'union' known as Hornets and wore masks and costumes and wielded water-guns fitted with thin glass tubes filled with corrosive acid and used their toy 'acid-guns' to shoot at military/construction vehicle tires and destabilized fertilizer-fuel explosive packs to set off explosions in empty fields to create strange news headlines about neglected Catholic-Protestant divisions in the modern United Kingdom. They called themselves happily the Belfast Hornets ('BH')!

Sometimes the BH (Belfast-Hornets) vigilantes wielded special youthful playful bow-and-arrow sets filled with smoke-bombs and shot them at trees about to be uprooted for construction projects, to create even more media attention for the inter-religious problems between Catholics-Protestants created by poverty/unemployment. The UK Magazine called this sort of economic activism reminiscent of Edward Abbey. The Belfast Hornets simply liked to think of themselves as Northern Ireland 'archers' of fame.

BELFAST GAZETTE: All this comic-fury is wondrous for Northern Ireland, but we forget the hell of inter-religious malice.

Will Catholic and Protestant kids every play together in sincerity or shop together at toy-stores with their parents in safety during Christmastime in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)? At the very least, these rogue action-adventure street-vigilantes calling themselves the Belfast Hornets ('BH') certainly offered modern Europe a special firefly-light about random discovered pirate-vigilance...and democratic optimism in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11.

SINN FEIN: We want cessation of all guerrilla-actions by underground forces frustrated by poverty in Northern Ireland!

Meanwhile, Amlan Satan continued to create his fantastic underground-media comics about inter-religious troubles/reforms/optimism in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and was being called the UK-rendition of Thomas Nast. The Belfast Hornets ('BH') considered Satan a target/diplomat for real street-charity.

AMLAN SATAN: There's a deep connection now in Northern Ireland between art...and vigilance.

Will these Northern Irish vigilantes create real democratic inspiration in the modern United Kingdom? Will Amlan Satan still be considered the UK-version/modern-rendition of Thomas Nast, the iconic political cartoonist? Wall Street knows at least that secure Dublin-Belfast commerce/consumerism/media/entertainment bridges for healthy optimistic journalism in modern Europe is simply sane for this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11. God bless Belfast!

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