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Ciaran said:
Point missed as per.
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Points not missed mate. This **** is to appease the Republican community, nothing else. Fair enough if its sommit like Bloody Sunday or some other civilian but yer man was a grade A **** and he deserved all he got.

Plus the British Government at the time would have rubber stamped any acts of retribution. Your sensitivities of today didn't apply then so it's total bullshit that the current government let the dogs loose on this guy and others like him.

It's you that is missing the point.
 
Union Jack Jackson said:
Points not missed mate. This **** is to appease the Republican community, nothing else. Fair enough if its sommit like Bloody Sunday or some other civilian but yer man was a grade A **** and he deserved all he got.

Plus the British Government at the time would have rubber stamped any acts of retribution. Your sensitivities of today didn't apply then so it's total bullshit that the current government let the dogs loose on this guy and others like him.

It's you that is missing the point.
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Republicans were arrested charged and jailed for killing British soldiers.

Why should the same not apply in this case?
 
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You can't really moan that Terror Group A are horrible horrible bastards if you're willing to act in the same way they do.

It then legitimises what Terror Group A do.
 
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You also cannot give immunity to terror group A, yet put soldiers on trial for taking whatever actions necessary to thwart their actions.

Immunity has to apply to all, otherwise it is an unjust peace process.
 
brb said:
You also cannot give immunity to terror group A, yet put soldiers on trial for taking whatever actions necessary to thwart their actions.

Immunity has to apply to all, otherwise it is an unjust peace process.
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What immunity? Republicans were sent to jail during the conflict, British soldiers weren't.
 
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Ciaran said:
What immunity? Republicans were sent to jail during the conflict, British soldiers weren't.
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quoting the Daily Malice;

“How can it be that these terrorists and murderers are walking around free and nobody is after them but, after everything you did in the army, you’re being persecuted?” As I said to them: life isn’t always fair.
‘Those guys walking around with those Get Out Of Jail Free cards should be standing beside me having to justify what they did during the Troubles.
‘I can justify my actions because I believe in what I did. The IRA were merciless. They had no compunction in killing innocent civilians. They didn’t care whose lives they affected or who they murdered.

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As I said the trial process has to apply to all or no one at all
 
brb said:
quoting the Daily Malice;

“How can it be that these terrorists and murderers are walking around free and nobody is after them but, after everything you did in the army, you’re being persecuted?” As I said to them: life isn’t always fair.
‘Those guys walking around with those Get Out Of Jail Free cards should be standing beside me having to justify what they did during the Troubles.
‘I can justify my actions because I believe in what I did. The IRA were merciless. They had no compunction in killing innocent civilians. They didn’t care whose lives they affected or who they murdered.

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As I said the trial process has to apply to all or no one at all
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It did apply to every Republican. Hence tens of thousands of them getting locked up.

Why can't you grasp this?
 
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Ciaran said:
It did apply to every Republican. Hence tens of thousands of them getting locked up.

Why can't you grasp this?
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I do grasp what you are saying, but the terror/war whatever you want to call it is behind us now, if you want to bring individual British soldiers to account then surely that has to work both ways for all. Many civilians were killed and maimed in bombing campaigns, as well as servicemen on the mainland, should we still be hunting down those that inflicted that...Birmingham, Brighton, Deal, Guildford, London, Maidstone, Manchester and more.

I suppose what I'm also saying is the IRA's argument was with British soldiers, not with innocent civilians.
 
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brb said:
I do grasp what you are saying, but the terror/war whatever you want to call it is behind us now, if you want to bring individual British soldiers to account then surely that has to work both ways for all. Many civilians were killed and maimed in bombing campaigns, as well as servicemen on the mainland, should we still be hunting down those that inflicted that...Birmingham, Brighton, Deal, Guildford, London, Maidstone, Manchester and more.

I suppose what I'm also saying is the IRA's argument was with British soldiers, not with innocent civilians.
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But IRA men are still being arrested for historical things. All the time. You're just hearing this because it's British soldiers.
 
Ciaran said:
But IRA men are still being arrested for historical things. All the time. You're just hearing this because it's British soldiers.
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ok - tbh most Southerners didn't give a **** what was going on in Ireland until they started bombing us.
 
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brb said:
but there is a difference in the case against the soldier to that of the republican who is accused of killing an innocent civilian surely?
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She wasn't innocent.

That was the 1st link btw, there's plenty more.

I'm all for a complete amnesty btw.
 
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