Is it just me or have SF vanished?

Mortelaro wrote: »

Funerals aren't touched, they just get lip service
Its just such a pity so many ordinary funerals stuck by the numbers rule resulting in more grief
As Sinn Féin have shown, it was all for nothing

So 1800 'RA men and women can turn up at a funetal and nobody does anything? GFA stays intact?

You guys credibility just finally gave it's last sigh and departed.

1800 'RA. Just wow!

FrancieBrady wrote: »

So 1800 'RA men and women can turn up at a funetal and nobody does anything? GFA stays intact?

You guys credibility just finally gave it's last sigh and departed.

1800 'RA. Just wow!

There have been bigger breaches of the GFA in fairness.

Mortelaro wrote: »

I didn't say they were 'Ra
Why are you saying I did?
My comment was on numbers

You answered my question about the RA by saying 'funerals aren't touched'. Why would you say that if you didn't think they were the IRA?

This thread has 195 pages so far.

They really haven't gone away and their apologists are a total disgrace.

But they never recognised An Garda Siochana as being legitimate anyway. Remember your man Ferris bringing Garda killers home from Castlerea?

The underbelly of SF will forever be associated with this kind of thing. It will never go away for the vast majority. And look at the calibre of some of the candidates elected this year also. The local SF Cumainn have a lot to answer for as has MLMD.

Anyway, I await the backlash. But I don't care anymore. Hope the time in opposition works out for them all. Hurlers on the ditch as always, with a dark underbelly.

Mortelaro wrote: »

It would be ridiculous to think there are 1800 Ra members in the North at this stage,they stopped recruiting in the mid 90's
I'd say even you're not a member

The 1800 stewards alone broke the rules by a factor of 60
But in good old Irish policing,the funeral wasn't stopped out of pragmatic respect for the dead
Such a high profile funeral because of the numbers has to be investigated but Mon knows no charges will be laid
Thats not a vindication

The whole thing is an affront to 1000's of grieving who stuck to the rules though because they were told to by Michelle I'll have a random man take a selfie with his arm around me o neill that they had to
She being hugged when 100's of grannies and grandads were dying alone

An absolute disgrace

To be honest I think a lot of your opinion is politics based.

Had MON's involvement in the selfie and the incidents of no social distancing not happened the vast vast majority of people would have had the compassion and empathy they had when they said nothing about the same issues9bar the selfies) at the state funeral and the SDLP one.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

I don't see them any differently to soldiers returning to normal life after a conflict/war.
Awful things are done in war and conflict, but millions have returned to normal and fulfilling lives after.

Thats the big big lie Francie. There was no war. The "soldiers" were squealing about a shoot to kill policy when the Brits shot back: only willing to do "active service" if it involved burying a woman on a beach, planting a bomb in a pub full of young people or breaking the legs of terrified teenagers. Cruel criminal scum of the very lowest kind

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Anyone could childishly pick out things other soldiers do in wars too Truth.

IMO it was a war, not in the conventional sense, but a war nonetheless. I always use conflict/war because this silly debate is tiresome.

Go to bed so and have a rest so from your incessant posting. The vast majority do not agree with you, and will not.

Despicable organisation is SF, it tries so much to push forward the so called intellectuals like O'Broin to prove how progressive and educated some of their cohort are. And do their best to bring the middle class into their fold.

Few will be taken in by this, as the core vote couldn't even spell his name, and they are full of RA stuff anyway from the start.

The day someone changes my mind about this I will reconsider, but for now, NO. Too much involvement from NI. Ugh.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Anyone could childishly pick out things other soldiers do in wars too Truth.

IMO it was a war, not in the conventional sense, but a war nonetheless. I always use conflict/war because this silly debate is tiresome.

More flakey dishonest efforts to justify the indefensible.

In every war there are sick people who take the opportunity to indulge themselves. My Lai in Vietnam, ethnic cleansing in Serbia, concentration camps Bloody Sunday, Korean rape Camps. Most of the soldiers do not participate; the ones that do are war criminals and should be treated as such

The " 'RA "as you so affectionately call them devoted themselves almost exclusively to subhuman criminal behaviour, murdering random innocent people who posed no threat to them, shooting unarmed farmers in front of their families, mutilating young people out for a night in pubs and crippling teenagers who did not show the right level of respect.

Whatever they are they are not soldiers and their pretendy uniforms, misuse of the Irish flag and comical funeral services for dead criminals certainly doesn't buy them any more credibility

Finty Lemon wrote: »

In 2014 Bobby Storey issued an email to all SF councillors enforcing silence on the issue of sexual abuse allegations against IRA members.

Did you not get the memo?

A brave supporter and advocate for peace and gentle but wise old friend to Mary Lou's children