you're still not getting it at all med. I said before i dont have a problem with men trying to free their country, but dont support a terror group who decades later adopted the same name. and you say i need history books nobody said it was all one way, you just seem to have trounle seeing both sides, as per usual. i've already mentioned that the queen and PM have recently apologised for the country's forces' past actions. yet not a peep from you, its all selective
I'm pretty sure the Republic of Ireland (along with dozens of other countries) sent troops out to Afghanistan. Seeing as the people on here speak about their disgust at troops serving in those wars they will ahve to travel a little bit further to find a country that did not send troops to these warzones.
I mentioned most prisoners were ex servicemen Oops....I was wrong.....but please, don't believe i read the guardian Meds I thought it was the Whytes, not the Kellys That's not a very open support
It's because they don't actually have the problem with the army, they just have a problem with the British part in front of it.
So men killing innocent families and driving them from their home because of their religion is "freeing a country" I take it you would keep the same stance if catholics in say Scotland were chased from their homes and killed because of their religion...you would have no problem with that because they were "freeing their country." The RA are all the same, be it Offical, Real, Provisional, etc. they all want(ed) to achieve a United Ireland by using violence and terrorising people.
No it was the Kellys, owners at the time of Celtic football club, that supported Torbett in court and as Brazil said knew what went on. That you cannot deny. That's exactly what I said earlier. Does some ned teenager from Glasgow really care about the people of Iraq & Afghanistan!?! Doubtful. Or is it simply because they are "Brits." Like I said, plenty of countries sent troops there, they don't have an issue with those soldiers.
again, completely off on a tangent. i dont really see what religion has to do with it, but lets say 'catholics in scotland get chased from their homes', how would that free the country? free it from what exactly? your argument makes no sense. as for the ra being all the same - history books med. still no opinion on the british forces' atrocities? and you accused me of saying it was all one way
Nah, they just outsmarted you by pretending to be proddies. "Are you a catholic?" "Eh, no" "On you go then lad" "Hand me my rosary beads Mary..."
Ok, a few things. I don't know where the guardian got its figures from but a survey done by the government found that around 11% of the prison population were ex-servicemen - they were, on average, older and around 6% more likely than other prisoners to be violent and twice as likely to have committed sexual offences. http://www.criminallawandjustice.co...ort-on-ex-servicemen-in-prison-published.html Later, the government would admit under-estimating these figures. I've always wondered what Unionists were told about the foundations of the Republic to make them so opposed to it. I've seen you have this argument with Hash and Ciaran and the likes before and you just did what you always do - repeat back selectively and quote bollocks that supports your suppositions. I'm not getting involved in this but, by claiming that Ireland was freed by people being terrorised, how on Earth was it subjigated and why do you think the Plantation was saintly compared to this multi-faith organisation which led an armed resistance? It's somewhat akin to a sympathiser of Nazi Germany pointing out how terrible the POW camps in Britain were. A blowtorch wouldn't mark your neck. While we're on about child abusers how about that Tory Church of Scotland guy getting done yesterday? Isn't that the third time in the last few weeks that Scottish clergymen have been found guilty of this type of disgusting act?
You said What they did was murder and chase Irish born protestants from down south out of their homes. Is that really freeing "their" country? Would you find it acceptable if catholics of Irish descent were hounded out of Scotland? History books!?! Care to elaborate. How are they different?
...or being entirely castigated for it. Surely, on a per head basis, the kirk has the biggest problem with child abuse on the planet.
Mary McAleese once compared protestant children in Northern ireland to Nazis, a preposterous comparison, that seen her grovelling the following days apologising.
