Jimstewart
Well-known member
I admire your ability to breath the same air as him. You are a better man than me I’d want to strangle him.
I admire your ability to breath the same air as him. You are a better man than me I’d want to strangle him.
There are still people in that city with entrenched anti British views just bubbling under the surface. Sinn Fein is almost a cult like party, where nobody is allowed to question the party line. They are still run by the IRA Army Council.Yeah, I'm undecided as to whether I will or not. West Belfast is a staunch Republican area so I would have to have my wits about me anyway.
We are of the same ilk. I utterly despise them. Enniskillen, Omagh it goes on and on. The murder of a mother of 10 and then refusing to tell them where their mother was.I doubt he would feel remorseful. I’m a catholic of Irish heritage and I have nothing but hatred for the provos. Any organisation that can bomb innocents enjoying a pint in Guildford or Birmingham, children shopping in Warrington, respecting the war dead at Eniskillen and God knows how many other sick acts cannot in my eyes call themselves an army. They were backstreet gangsters. Cowards of the highest order.
I despise the UDF, UDA all of them . But Enniskillen and Omagh were aimed at pregnant women and children .Atrocities carried out by all sides over a long period of time. For me it's impossible to point the finger at only one of them.
There are still people in that city with entrenched anti British views just bubbling under the surface. Sinn Fein is almost a cult like party, where nobody is allowed to question the party line. They are still run by the IRA Army Council.
There's been indiscriminate killing from all sides. It goes back a long way.I despise the UDF, UDA all of them . But Enniskillen and Omagh were aimed at pregnant women and children .
There's more than two.Both sides are guilty of despicable atrocities
The difference between us is that I Cannot legitimes it.There's more than two.
Different factions, only two sides reallyThere's more than two.
The Republicans only want the world to see things from their perspective. 'Revisionists' who want to rewrite history on their terms only.They are fantasists who want the 'troubles' to be seen through rose tinted spectacles, their side being the oppressed all the time, perpetual victims of the conflict THEY started. They only sued for peace because they were so badly infiltrated by British spies going to the very top of the organisation. Rumours still abound that Adams and McGuinness were both MI5 spies, that is why they were never locked up and allowed to continue. They need to acknowledge that it was a dirty war and horrible things were committed on BOTH sides. Eire will not accept Sinn Fein as a true democratic political party until they renounce the atrocities they carried out, and follow a real democratic process.It surprised me that many of them still campaign for people to be brought to justice today, for Republicans who were murdered during the course of the troubles. I just find it a bit hypocritical and it's hardly going to help with drawing a line in the sand.
Harry himself believed in this. I told him there there should be an amnesty for soldiers due to paramilitary members being released from prison as part of the GFA and he didn't seem to like that.
"Eire will not accept SF" ?The Republicans only want the world to see things from their perspective. 'Revisionists' who want to rewrite history on their terms only.They are fantasists who want the 'troubles' to be seen through rose tinted spectacles, their side being the oppressed all the time, perpetual victims of the conflict THEY started. They only sued for peace because they were so badly infiltrated by British spies going to the very top of the organisation. Rumours still abound that Adams and McGuinness were both MI5 spies, that is why they were never locked up and allowed to continue. They need to acknowledge that it was a dirty war and horrible things were committed on BOTH sides. Eire will not accept Sinn Fein as a true democratic political party until they renounce the atrocities they carried out, and follow a real democratic process.
I should have been clearer. What I mean is in the long term unless Sinn Fein come in from the cold and embraceReal constitutional politics they will not be accepted. The problem is Eire has a majority population of younger people now who were not born during the dark days of the IRA campaign. These are the demographic they appeal to"Eire will not accept SF" ?
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Well they seem to be the party on a roll in the Republic, they could hold the power in the not too distant futureI should have been clearer. What I mean is in the long term unless Sinn Fein come in from the cold and embraceReal constitutional politics they will not be accepted. The problem is Eire has a majority population of younger people now who were not born during the dark days of the IRA campaign. These are the demographic they appeal to
That's a very real and scary possibility.Well they seem to be the party on a roll in the Republic, they could hold the power in the not too distant future
A party the country deserves. The only English speaking country to assist the Nazi during WW2, particularly that party.Well they seem to be the party on a roll in the Republic, they could hold the power in the not too distant future