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[Video] Northern Irish anti-terrorism ad 1993

  • 15-04-2020 05:35AM
    #1
    coinop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭


    Anyone else remember this ad? I'm noticing a lot of youngsters who weren't around during the Troubles swallowing the commie kool-aid from Sinn Fein. Like Leo says, they're not a normal party. We can't go back.



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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh look, this again #47532.


  • #3
    coinop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭coinop


    Apologies, I didn't realise this video had been posted on these Boards before. Can you link me to the other threads?


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The video is new, the SF bashing is old.


  • #5
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    biko wrote: »
    The video is new, the SF bashing is old.

    Nah Ad is an old one, seen it in the 90's but agree it is a SF basher, no mention of the left footers doing the same

    22/25



  • #6
    coinop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 315 ✭✭coinop


    uch wrote: »
    Nah Ad is an old one, seen it in the 90's but agree it is a SF basher, no mention of the left footers doing the same

    Are you a subscriber to Trump's "both sides" argument?


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  • #7
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    TBH the scene where where patrons of a bar are randomly gunned down looks more like the work of Loyalists.


  • #8
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    coinop wrote: »
    Like Leo says, they're not a normal party.

    Thankfully Leo doesn’t get to decide that. The electorate do.

    What’s your point ?


  • #9
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Hard to believe it's over 25 years ago,
    25 years before that the troubles hadn't even started...


  • #10
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    OP I actually thanked your post and then unthanked it when I read your comment. A strong contender for the best ad ever and such a superb song. I remember the ad from childhood.

    As it happens it's because of people like you that I'm going to vote for SF in future, I think the SF bashing club on boards are are bunch of clowns. It's the SF bashers that are living in the past and endlessly waffling about stuff that's not relevant to our economy.


  • #11
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    I haven't looked at the video, but I'll guess it doesn't mention RUC/British Army being balls deep in terrorism.


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  • #12
    landofthetree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    IRA IRA plant a bomb and runaway.

    The Kop sang this 23 years ago after grand national bombing attempt


  • #13
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,032 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I remember the ad. The IRA were a necessary evil IMO.

    It's SF's holier than thou shtick that annoys me.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #14
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,343 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    @OP When does the political arm of any revolutionary movement become politically acceptable?

    If a political party is born of revolutionary or freedom movement armed groups and in the course of building a peace that movement commits to peace?
    When does that party then become part of the establishment?

    In the case of northern politics, is it not hypocritical to expect Unionists to cooperate with SF in Stormont?
    Whilst the Civil War successor parties here treat them as pariahs in our Dail?


  • #15
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    banie01 wrote: »
    @OP When does the political arm of any revolutionary movement become politically acceptable?

    If a political party is born of revolutionary or freedom movement armed groups and in the course of building a peace that movement commits to peace?
    When does that party then become part of the establishment?

    In the case of northern politics, is it not hypocritical to expect Unionists to cooperate with SF in Stormont?
    Whilst the Civil War successor parties here treat them as pariahs in our Dail?

    When they stop singing songs about and glorifying a group that blew up innocent people, shot people dead based on their religion, and murdered members of the Gardaí. When they start to call the Republic by its proper title. When they stop putting forward psychopaths like Dessie Ellis to run for the Dáil.

    Northern Ireland is an economic, social and political basket case. Anything that goes on up there is due to circumstances.


  • #16
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    When they stop singing songs about and glorifying a group that blew up innocent people, shot people dead based on their religion, and murdered members of the Gardaí. When they start to call the Republic by its proper title. When they stop putting forward psychopaths like Dessie Ellis to run for the Dáil.

    Northern Ireland is an economic, social and political basket case. Anything that goes on up there is due to circumstances.

    And yet we have FFFG and the likes of Labour having no issue with the US using Ireland to commit war crimes.


  • #17
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    And yet we have FFFG and the likes of Labour having no issue with the US using Ireland to commit war crimes.

    Look over there! It’s a bird!


  • #18
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,547 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Greyfox wrote: »

    As it happens it's because of people like you that I'm going to vote for SF in future,

    Randomers on social-media are your primary consideration when considering who to vote for?

    It certainly makes a mockery of those who believe SF are party for weak-minded fools.


  • #19
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Look over there! It’s a bird!

    No, it's a plane of the USAF about to drop a bomb on innocent civilians which is fine with FFFG.


  • #20
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,343 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    .

    Northern Ireland is an economic, social and political basket case. Anything that goes on up there is due to circumstances.

    "Circumstances" are never going to allow for an all island solution then are they?

    If we can't afford Republicans a place at the political table down here?
    What chance do Unionists have of ever feeling involved and acknowledged in our political process...


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    banie01 wrote: »
    "Circumstances" are never going to allow for an all island solution then are they?

    If we can't afford Republicans a place at the political table down here?
    What chance do Unionists have of ever feeling involved and acknowledged in our political process...

    Hopefully they never are involved or acknowledged.


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  • #22
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Hopefully they never are involved or acknowledged.

    Ok, so you don’t believe in democracy.

    What’s your alternative ?

    Just ignore the electorate that you disagree with ?


  • #23
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,779 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I think its a great ad. Very powerful. Think it gets the message across. Song really suits it.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #24
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Randomers on social-media are your primary consideration when considering who to vote for?

    It certainly makes a mockery of those who believe SF are party for weak-minded fools.

    Their not my primary reason but their part of a bigger problem. In the recent election I wanted FF/FG to tell me why voting for them would be good for me but they just kept on bringing up SF's past rather than deal with how they will help the economy. The SF bashing is getting in the way of debating more important issues


  • #25
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Great Ad. Found it harrowing at the time.

    Bit stupid as a platform for bashing SF, Loyalists or anyone really because the whole point of the Ad was to demonstrate the self-perpetuating cycle of Northern Irish violence, to the detriment of all involved.

    The Ad very deliberately doesn't make it clear whether the Father is Republican or Loyalist.


  • #26
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Mr Bean - terrorist scum.


  • #27
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,343 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Hopefully they never are involved or acknowledged.

    Attitudes like this will ensure they will never feel like they can be.

    So much for parity of esteem...


  • #28
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,844 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    if you take your view of the north from an advert .... says a lot


  • #29
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The saddest thing here is that an ad campaign that was set up with specifically non-sectarian intent to appeal to both sides to stop fighting, is now being used 30 years later to stoke up sectarian tension against one of those sides.

    I have my own views on the unsuitability of Sinn Féin for government, but this is very poor form OP.

    Aside, I remember this ad very clearly. It seems really weird to think how normalised this ad was. They used to show it in the middle of the day, in the middle of children's cartoons.

    I wonder what anyone under 30 thinks about this ad? It must seem surreal that it exists at all.


  • #30
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    seamus wrote: »
    The saddest thing here is that an ad campaign that was set up with specifically non-sectarian intent to appeal to both sides.

    They had one to “combat” young people smoking too.

    Didn’t have much of an “impact” down here as the we didn’t use the word “tube” as an insult.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #31
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    maccored wrote: »
    if you take your view of the north from an advert .... says a lot


    Is it any worse than people taking their view on the North from the particular Sectarian echo chamber they grew up in, the songs their uncle's sing when they've had too much to drink, the family myths that can never be challenged, the sash their father wore so to speak?



    What do you take your view of the North from?


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