LordSutch wrote: » your IRA heroes.
LordSutch wrote: » Now now, don't betrying to twist thigs there^ The PIRA terrorised for the best part of thirty years for a United Ireland @any cost, that was their goal > and they failed. The SDLP are to be commended for not getting embroiled in the mayhem.
Junkyard Tom wrote: » I don't have any heroes. Unlike you with the RUC/UDR/BA I'm fully aware that the IRA were ruthless killers and have no problem condemning them for acts like Kingsmill, Enniskillen, bombing bars etc.
LordSutch wrote: » 'You two' spend an awful lot of time defending the Provo's for some reason, as you have just now^. As regards the security forces, without them an awful lot more people would have been blown to smithereens by the various bombings (foiled by the Army & the police). The little robot thingy was always being sent in to check out dodgy looking cars in town centres, many of which contained bombs designed to main and kill < The Army defused them. It was said at the time that the Bombers only had to get lucky once, while the security forces had to be lucky every time they attempted to defuse a bomb.
FrancieBrady wrote: » The internet may one day show that those 'security forces' may have helped blow up a few people in Monaghan and Dublin and actually shows were they actively took a side and killed on its behalf. So much so it was restructured and renamed in disgrace. Google it.
LordSutch wrote: » It was said at the time that the Bombers only had to get lucky once, while the security forces had to be lucky every time they attempted to defuse an IRA bomb.
LordSutch wrote: » As regards the security forces, well without them an awful lot more people would have been blown to smithereens by the various bombings (foiled by the Army & the police).
LordSutch wrote: » Must you end every post with 'Google it'? Goodnight.
wordofwarning wrote: » Most people and I will never support terrorists. You might like to window dress it by calling it the 'cause' but terrorism is terrorism. Blowing up a bar of innocent people or causing £500m worth of property damage is terrorism. I am struggling to see why I would support the 'cause' by hearing the justification of why a terrorist caused £500m worth of property damage with the object of creating a United Ireland... Even if the British media were reporting the terrorist or republican POV, I personally could not have cared less. So what if the RUC, were killing Catholics. They were killing Catholics, therefore terrorists could justify killing innocent people in London? We look at our TV in disgust when terrorists kill innocent civilians as revenge over a US airstrike etc. Yet you are telling me we would support the innocent killing of Brits if we could hear the justification from terrorists?
RayM wrote: » "We only have to be lucky once" - I think that's probably my favourite line uttered by any terrorist organisation (it's definitely near the top of the list anyway). So chilling, and also so inspirational - I've applied it to many aspects of my life, from online dating to job interviews to exams.
Widdershins wrote: » Your favourite motivational quotes are based on terrorism? Well, that's a new one.
Widdershins wrote: » If the internet was around then, nobody would have a clue whose story to believe, as it would be full of propaganda and lies, much like it is now.
jeanjolie wrote: » It's unlikely that the world would be as it is with a communication network like the Internet. There's a theory that the brutality of WWII was fueled by the inability of populations to see different groups within their nations and other nations with the humanity that they do today. The internet would almost certainly have prevented the Troubles.
Rumpy Pumpy wrote: » LordSutch and Junkyard Tom would both have made the ultimate sacrifice, by starving themselves to death in front of their keyboard's in a month long, round the clock effort to highlight their cause.
PistolsAtDawn wrote: » Men starved themselves to death for a cause they believed in and this is to be made fun of?
RayM wrote: » I sometimes think I should have "that was a joke" in my sig.
Junkyard Tom wrote: »
wordofwarning wrote: » They kill us, we kill them... What is this? Are we living in 1308?
Widdershins wrote: » Bit there's a grain of truth in every joke. And I could believe it.
RayM wrote: » AH is exhausting sometimes.
Persephone kindness wrote: » I would say Shinner heads would have had a rude awakening to what people actually thought of them.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Wrong, there was plenty of propaganda and cover up. There was only one side the media was interested in destroying/exposing - the republican/nationalist side and to an extent the loyalist/unionist one. Where the internet would have made a difference was in exposing the actions of those actually responsible for society - the two governments. You would have known who opened fire first on Bloody Sunday - Ballymurphy etc. etc. You would have know what the Heavy Gang got up to etc. And censorship would have been as ineffective as it was counterproductive.
Widdershins wrote: » Would you ever calm yourself down for once. I didn't say there wasn't already propaganda. We would have endless ridiculous meme-wars as well.
