James McClean refusing to wear poppy on shirt

I wasn't aware James McClean was asked to wear a flower to support the provisional wing of the IRA.

Acting like an idiotic jingoistic ****** isn't going to make him change his mind.

 

in this instance the people at the top took 38 years and two Public Inquiries before they accepted culpability.

The pawns at the bottom who murdered these people still fail to tell the truth about the events of that day. They were afforded immunity from prosecution and they still lied.

Likewise, the people of Britain are generally hugely tolerant. James McClean chose not to honour those who murdered people on the streets of his city-radical, I don't think so.

Religion is and was always a smoke screen.

Don't lose sight of the issue. This is not about a stance against the British occupation of Ireland. It is purely about a young man not wishing to support a charity that raises money for the people who killed innocent people on the streets where he lived. I am struggling to understand why some people cannot respect that choice.

 

Tony, i just read your comments within your previous post.

I am not sure how to respond to the notion that the nationalist community. must have done something. Maybe I picked that up wrong. Whatever they did certainly did not warrant an instrument of the state opening fire on them for no reason.

Bloody Sunday was a Civil rights march. No, not everyone had the vote. Ratepayers had the vote. People who piad rates were the homeowners. The nationalist community were unable to get jobs to enable them to own homes. This was down to state sponsored discrimination. In areas where there was a nationalist majority of people with the vote, wards were gerrymandered to ensure the nationalist community was under represented. Council homes were allocated to the Unionist community first. A volunteer police force was armed to the teeth and used as an instrument against the nationalist community. Make no mistake. This was a self proclaimed "Protestant State for a Protestant People", so when I say that it would be swapping one dictator for another, i am not exaggerating by any stretch of the imagination.

Apologies for going off topic, but that certainly frames the context in which Bloody Sunday occured and subsequently why James would elect to exercise his freedom of speech to take such a stance.