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Why do people hate Gerry Adams

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  • #32
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    I assume you'retalking about the IRA? The only thing the IRA had to offer its members was life imprisonment or death. They said so themselves. I doubt the people who took up on that offer were cowards.

    You couldn't describe getting drunk and/or high and driving a car loaded with explosives into a packed shopping area before scurrying away like a rat courageous though, could you, in all honesty.
    Or maybe YOU could?


  • #33
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    A british informer if I remember correctly?

    No your incorrect
    The Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan commissioned a report into that slur and found it to be completely with no basis whatsoever.


  • #34
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    wokingvoter wrote: »
    You couldn't describe getting drunk and/or high and driving a car loaded with explosives into a packed shopping area before scurrying away like a rat courageous though, could you, in all honesty.
    Or maybe YOU could?

    The IRA were strongly against drugs an uneducated person like you wouldn't know.
    Into a packed shopping area? What are you on about? Fool who doesn't know what he's on about.


  • #35
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    He brought peace to Northern Ireland.

    Himself? On his own? Really?


  • #36
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    jack923 wrote: »
    A british informer if I remember correctly?

    You are mentally ill.

    Good old Jarry is terrorist garbage that we have to pretend to take seriously because everyone that matters pretty much got tired of the Northern Irish problem, decided it wasn't worth any more peoples lives and let him and his ilk (on both sides) play at being politicians with no real chance of them ever making any decisions that matter to normal people because they are morons.

    He's a punchline.

    If we were a more hardline country, the man and all his associates would be in the ground instead of the Dail.


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  • #37
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    The IRA were strongly against drugs an uneducated person like you wouldn't know.
    Into a packed shopping area? What are you on about? Fool who doesn't know what he's on about.

    Strongly against drugs? And I'm a fool!
    What happened on the 15 August 1998?


  • #38
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    wokingvoter wrote: »
    No your incorrect
    The Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan commissioned a report into that slur and found it to be completely with no basis whatsoever.

    And you believe that? So they just killed her for the lolz?


  • #39
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    And you believe that? So they just killed her for the lolz?

    Why would Nuala O'Loan lie?


  • #40
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    jack923 wrote: »
    Into a packed shopping area?
    Think of Bloody Friday, Belfast. Lots of innocent shoppers murdered by IRA bombs. Just one example/ Not that anyone was a member or leader of PIRA in Belfast at the time.

    At least he advocates peace now, I'll say that for him. He is not hated as much as he used to be. Good reason for that.


  • #41
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    wokingvoter wrote: »
    Strongly against drugs? And I'm a fool!
    What happened on the 15 August 1998?

    I doubt you even know there's more than one IRA. Here's a bit of education for you. The Provisional IRA was the main IRA in the troubles, the rest were splinter groups/scumbags. The real ira carried out that attack after the peace agreement in NI.


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  • #42
    jack923
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    wokingvoter wrote: »
    Why would Nuala O'Loan lie?

    She couldn't find any evidence means it couldn't be true?


  • #43
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    jack923 wrote: »
    And you believe that? So they just killed her for the lolz?
    She was a prod, the IRA killed lots of prods. Black prods they called them.


  • #44
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    jack923 wrote: »
    I doubt you even know there's more than one IRA. Here's a bit of education for you. The Provisional IRA was the main IRA in the troubles, the rest were splinter groups/scumbags. The real ira carried out that attack after the peace agreement in NI.

    You just used the "splitters!" argument from The Life of Brian.

    As i said, a punchline.


  • #45
    Two Tone
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    maryishere wrote: »
    She was a prod, the IRA killed lots of prods. Black prods they called them.
    Didn't she tend to an injured British soldier too, which helped sign her death warrant?


  • #46
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    lawlolawl wrote: »
    You are mentally ill.

    Good old Jarry is terrorist garbage that we have to pretend to take seriously because everyone that matters pretty much got tired of the Northern Irish problem, decided it wasn't worth any more peoples lives and let him and his ilk (on both sides) play at being politicians with no real chance of them ever making any decisions that matter to normal people because they are morons.

    He's a punchline.

    If we were a more hardline country, the man and all his associates would be in the ground instead of the Dail.

    If we were more a hardline country martin mcguinness would be president. Another clueless tree hugger.


  • #47
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    I doubt you even know there's more than one IRA. Here's a bit of education for you. The Provisional IRA was the main IRA in the troubles, the rest were splinter groups/scumbags. The real ira carried out that attack after the peace agreement in NI.

    I've just been looking at your posting history and I don't need an education on Irish history from someone who addresses other posters as "mate".


  • #48
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    jack923 wrote: »
    Why do you think people hate Gerry Adams?

    It's all his internet fanboys that I hate.

    Can we talk about why we hate them?

    1. They think Gerry Adams is a good person, deep, deep, deep down.
    2. They make excuses for his part in the murder of innocent people.
    3. They give him their votes, disrespecting the lawful institutions of government on both sides of the border and what they stand for.
    4. They troll political fora, hoping to have him cast as a misrepresented moderate so they can keep making excuses on his behalf.
    5. They attribute the 'peace' to him, instead of to the peoples of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

    Gerry Adams is a scumbag. Always was, always will be.


  • #49
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    jack923 wrote: »
    He brought peace to Northern Ireland.

    No he didnt, he was one small cog on a huge wheel,might be 0.1% responsible and only so SF could be a legit political party who have now peaked in their popularity


  • #50
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    lawlolawl wrote: »
    You just used the "splitters!" argument from The Life of Brian.

    As i said, a punchline.

    What?


  • #51
    The Backwards Man
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    maryishere wrote: »
    She was a prod, the IRA killed lots of prods. Black prods they called them.

    I hate uneducated ****e like this just as much as I hate Gerry.

    Not that I hate Gerry :)


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  • #52
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    jack923 wrote: »
    He brought peace to Northern Ireland.

    I've a friend who's a convicted former IRA man who continuously says Adams standing in republican society would improve considerably if he were to acknowledge being in the IRA particularly in the eyes of the families of IRA members who died and in the eyes of those who served significant sentences.

    Then again if were to admit now to being a member in the eyes of the world he'd be a liar.


  • #53
    tomwaterford
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I think for his age he's a bit of a lash. Also I love his Twitter.


    He is head and shoulders the best Twitter account of any Irish politian


  • #54
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    jack923 wrote: »
    A british informer if I remember correctly?

    seriously ?

    get you ass back under that bridge where you belong


  • #55
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    No he didnt, he was one small cog on a huge wheel,might be 0.1% responsible and only so SF could be a legit political party who have now peaked in their popularity

    It wouldn't have been possible without him. Anyone anyway educated knows that.


  • #56
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    seriously ?

    get you ass back under that bridge where you belong

    So she wasn't an informer? And why do you think that?


  • #57
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    Two Tone wrote: »
    Didn't she tend to an injured British soldier too, which helped sign her death warrant?
    I think the soldier was shot / dying? Going to comfort him in his final moments was enough to sign her death warrant / enable the heavies to torture and "disappear" her, and leave her family of kids abandened to fend for themselves ?


  • #58
    jack923
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 418 ✭✭jack923


    corner of hells wrote: »
    I've a friend who's a convicted former IRA man who continuously says Adams standing in republican society would improve considerably if he were to acknowledge being in the IRA particularly in the eyes of the families of IRA members who died and in the eyes of those who served significant sentences.

    Then again if were to admit now to being a member in the eyes of the world he'd be a list.

    It's more so for the young voters. Republicans will vote for him anyway he's not going to get more votes by admitting it.


  • #59
    BreadnBuddha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


    jack923 wrote: »
    It wouldn't have been possible without him. Anyone anyway educated knows that.

    Anyone anyway indoctrinated would have to argue that line..

    Peace might not have taken so long if it wasn't for him.


  • #60
    lawlolawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭lawlolawl


    jack923 wrote: »
    What?

    "Those despicable murdering trash weren't the official despicable murdering trash so it was wrong when they murdered people :mad:"


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  • #61
    wokingvoter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 828 ✭✭✭wokingvoter


    jack923 wrote: »
    She couldn't find any evidence means it couldn't be true?
    In this country your innocent until proven guilty.
    In your imaginary world where you've actually left your computer desk and are an IRA chief of staff, the only evidence needed to convict a mother of ten with mental health issues, is the word of a couple of drink addled teenage girls, but here in the real world that wouldn't do at all.


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