20000 were mobilised to Ireland by the end of that week. Bravery and stupidity are not the issue. You called them cowards when they clearly weren't. Cowards drop bombs on children playing on beaches. Cowards shoot unarmed people Cowards drop bombs on factories where people work Cowards blow up airports Cowards order men to run at machine guns Cowards send other people to do the killing for them Taking the first shot at an armed soldier before he takes a shot at you is WAY down on the list of cowardly practices I would think
Depends if the fish is really smelly. Takes a brave man to walk in there I consider planting or dropping bombs cowardly attacks
You can't be retrospectively brave though. The blokes went round shooting unarmed people. That is not brave. The fact that they subsequently initially resisted arrest does not make them brave, it is just the situation they found themselves is, pursuant to their largely inconsidered (and henious) actions. Who knows what fortitude they showed later ? They might have all pissed their pants for all we know.
The fish shop used for UDA meetings? Is shooting unarmed 17 year olds in the back brave? Have you still got your 1916 service medal btw auld yin?
Look, ok, I agree that it is likely that many of those involved showed (misguided) bravery. Personally I'm not going to be out all weekend drinking to them all the same.
That's fine you can go on blowing the empires trumpet now I am going drinking but only to ogle ladies
I swore to myself all day I wouldn't get involved but your **** is so wrong that I couldn't help myself http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion...on-that-historic-day-201214141-238176591.html
I don't pretend to even begin to understand stuff about Ireland, however, when the bombing campaign was brought to the mainland, people who previously felt get the Brits out of Ireland, would now think get the bastards that did this, so what purpose did it serve? You can reflect on what the British soldiers may or may not have done, but most Brits can only reflect on propaganda by the British Media, pictures that show dead horses and two soldiers getting attacked at a funeral, I still remember those images, it didn't help the cause but it probably made a pack of nut jobs feel good. I will always reflect on those images and call the people that did it despicable cowardly scum, because that's what they are cowards behind a gun or a bomb! In the same way British soldiers maybe scum to those in Ireland. But in the end the British Government bottled it because of the increased campaign on the mainland which was costing them billions in Birmingham & Manchester the latter 1.2 billion in today's value. I have no issue with the Irish but I do have issue with anyone that carries out despicable cowardly acts on either side, whether that be a British soldier or a member of the IRA. Yet, despite all our troubles and differences, the Irish love to come and work in Britain anyway, they love our pleasant land and the rewards it brings being ruled by a British government, it's British police and it's British soldiers...God save the Queen Don't forget the hate vote lads for brb.
Up the RA. The original RA that is. Not those scamps with the long hair from the 70s. That lot were rotters to a man.
