Gaddafi and the IRA (ITV 1)

Dudess · 26-09-2011 08:28PM

Don't get how this could be deemed anti Irish - it's about stuff that happened is all...

Dionysus wrote: »

I look forward to ITV's exposé on Mrs Thatcher's support, at the same time, for the Indonesian genocide of East Timor ... or her support for the fascist dictator in Chile... or her support for the Apartheid régime in South Africa or....

In the late 80s, ITV attempted to air a documentary outlining the events leading up to the Gibraltar shootings, but Maggie tried to put a stop to it on the grounds of it being "trial by media" (of the SAS).

Benny_Cake · 26-09-2011 08:28PM

stewie01 wrote: »

My question to you (yes i mean you) ; would ITV not be better off making a more up-to-date current affairs programme about Gaddafi, such as say Gaddafi and his relationship with previous UK governments such as Tony Blair, or Gaddafi and how the SAS trained his Elite army's in suppressing the Libyan population for the last ? years, only stopping as recently as 6 months before the uprising, or the UK governments arms deals to Gaddafi to suppress these people or how they turned a blind eye to his endless human rights abuses in return for oil???

In case you're interested Channel 4 are running a documentary about Tony Blair's business dealings,including his trips to Libya,right at this very moment.So the British propoganda machine isn't much of a machine except in your mind really.I would say that of course given that I hate Ireland:rolleyes:

KeithAFC · 26-09-2011 08:30PM

Dudess wrote: »

Don't get how this could be deemed anti Irish - it's about stuff that happened is all...

In the late 80s, ITV attempted to air a documentary outlining the events leading up to the Gibraltar shootings, but Maggie tried to put a stop to it on the grounds of it being "trial by media" (of the SAS).

Thatcher should not have tried to stop it.

willmunny1990 · 26-09-2011 08:34PM

Dudess wrote: »

Don't get how this could be deemed anti Irish - it's about stuff that happened is all...

In the late 80s, ITV attempted to air a documentary outlining the events leading up to the Gibraltar shootings, but Maggie tried to put a stop to it on the grounds of it being "trial by media" (of the SAS).

Thatcher was just a big a c*nt as any IRA member, Thatcher has left her own share of blood on the floor IMO.

Dudess · 26-09-2011 08:36PM

Falklands and being mates with Pinochet - pretty atrocious.

Benny_Cake · 26-09-2011 08:38PM

Dudess wrote: »

Don't get how this could be deemed anti Irish - it's about stuff that happened is all...

In the late 80s, ITV attempted to air a documentary outlining the events leading up to the Gibraltar shootings, but Maggie tried to put a stop to it on the grounds of it being "trial by media" (of the SAS).

Whatever someone's position on the North,"Death on the Rock" was a brilliant piece of investigative journalism,thanks for the link!

Dudess · 26-09-2011 08:41PM

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Whatever someone's position on the North,"Death on the Rock" was a brilliant piece of investigative journalism,thanks for the link!

Oh the execution of those British soldiers was horrific, but that doesn't mean shoot-to-kill by the SAS is justifiable either - a very balanced examination.

Wolfe Tone · 26-09-2011 08:53PM

What a terrible thread, the program is about him giving cash to anti gfa republicans, 2 million or so, this year.

It cites M16 sources, so its probably bollocks. They will be showing a dissident training video too.

If you followed me on twitter you would know all this!

KeithAFC · 26-09-2011 08:54PM

He give the dissidents 2 million? They are still around in more ways than one.

Chuck Stone · 26-09-2011 09:01PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

They will be showing a dissident training video too.

I hope they aren't using monkey bars like those guys in Afghanistan or we could be in for trouble.

Wolfe Tone · 26-09-2011 11:06PM

Anyone else watching?

brummytom · 26-09-2011 11:08PM

Yep. I voted 'Valid Programme' before I watched it.

I think my facebook status sums up my problem with this programme:
"So according to ITV, Gaddafi's a monster for helping the IRA; but it's perfectly acceptable for the British to help Libyan 'rebels'? Propagandist shite"

Feisar · 26-09-2011 11:21PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

So Gaddafi gave weapons to the IRA and the British gave them to the loyalist murder gangs.

Who's worse?

The weapons issue is mostly bluster anyway because the IRA's most effective weapon was the home made fertilizer bomb.

Fertilizer or the bi product ammonium nitrate is very stable. A plastic high explosive is needed to set it off. Semtex being the one used mostly be the IRA. I don't know if it was Gaddafi they got it from.

Wolfe Tone · 26-09-2011 11:21PM

Pretty crap so far tbh, innacurate and not exactly balanced, getting onto the dissident bit now, which I suspect is bollocks, sure as hell cant trust MI6, sounds like scarmongering to me.

mike65 · 26-09-2011 11:24PM

stewie01 wrote: »

P.s I posted in AH instead of TV to get a more realistic representation of boards, if you want to move it somewhere else, please not tv section. maybe conspiracy theories

Yeah right.

Feisar · 26-09-2011 11:26PM

I always find it funny when small groups are branded terrorists but sovereign nations seem to get a free pass when it comes to acts of terror. Weird.

If one group holds something by force its fairly reasonable to expect the other group to try to take it back by force. To put it in lay terms, "like lads what were ye expecting???"

Wolfe Tone · 26-09-2011 11:34PM

They show riots in Ardoyne but no mention of the attempted pogrom in short strand. That, and the police reaction(none) has done more than anything else recently to validate Martin Meehan and cos opinions, what a load of ****e that program was, propaganda with nothing substantive, message was that gadaffi is a baddie and the paddies are coming to get you with his help

brummytom · 26-09-2011 11:41PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

They show riots in Ardoyne but no mention of the attempted pogrom in short strand. That, and the police reaction(none) has done more than anything else recently to validate Martin Meehan and cos opinions, what a load of ****e that program was, propaganda with nothing substantive, message was that gadaffi is a baddie and the paddies are coming to get you with his help

Yeah... it's just the kind of thing the Irish communities in the UK need.

'In this series of 'Reeling in the Years', the 1980s. Or is it the 2010s? We can't tell'

KeithAFC · 26-09-2011 11:42PM

Thought it was good. Told us what we already knew with the IRA. The ardoyne footage was interesting. Good programme from ITV IMO.

Wolfe Tone · 26-09-2011 11:45PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Thought it was good. Told us what we already knew with the IRA. The ardoyne footage was interesting. Good programme from ITV IMO.

If I said it was brilliant you would say it was sh!te, the ardoyne footage lasted literally 1 second ffs

KeithAFC · 26-09-2011 11:48PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

If I said it was brilliant you would say it was sh!te, the ardoyne footage lasted literally 1 second ffs

Interesting with how they mixed it in with the programme. Everyone knows Gaddafi was an IRA supporter.

K-9 · 26-09-2011 11:51PM

Dionysus wrote: »

I look forward to ITV's exposé on Mrs Thatcher's support, at the same time, for the Indonesian genocide of East Timor ... or her support for the fascist dictator in Chile... or her support for the Apartheid régime in South Africa or....

I'm just waiting for the publication of all the Hillsborough information and what she thought of what happened. The campaign is going great for full release of the information and the Tory policy of introducing online petitions may backfire spectacularly.

As for the programme, nothing new for me, didn't know Ghadaffi had exported that many times or the attempt on Di, but nothing earth shattering tbh.

Chuck Stone · 26-09-2011 11:58PM

I found the commentary on the Canary Wharf bomb interesting. 25 years of people dying up north and a bomb in the heart of the economic zone in London brings it to a head.

When it was ordinary young people killing each other it was tolerable but when the ability to make profits gets threatened the game is up.

Bodie: 'This game is rigged, man. We like the little bitches on a chessboard'.

The Wire.

round tower huntsman · 27-09-2011 12:05AM

to think all that stuff given to republicans to fight the britsh occupation ended up covered in concrete!

K-9 · 27-09-2011 12:05AM

Dudess wrote: »

Don't get how this could be deemed anti Irish - it's about stuff that happened is all...

In the late 80s, ITV attempted to air a documentary outlining the events leading up to the Gibraltar shootings, but Maggie tried to put a stop to it on the grounds of it being "trial by media" (of the SAS).

World in Action was a brilliant programme. Tbh, it was the SAS, what did people expect and they fought fairly in my opinion. The IRA were going to bomb innocent people in Gibraltar.The programme exposed the cover up by the British establishment though brilliantly. If they'd had have been honest from the start I doubt much would have been made of it.

As for the Stone murders and Milltown lynching after that, shocking viewing as a 15 year old. Would have been Republican for a while after that until I copped the futility and pointlessness of the campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6Zawz7geo

Mad, mad week in NI and should be shown as LC History, unfortunately more to come after that, Shankill, Greysteel trick or treat, IRA "tiger kidnaps" involving bombs!

Never fecking again. People give out about politics, it can work.

round tower huntsman · 27-09-2011 12:09AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I found the commentary on the Canary Wharf bomb interesting. 25 years of people dying up north and a bomb in the heart of the economic zone in London brings it to a head.

When it was ordinary young people killing each other it was tolerable but when the ability to make profits gets threatened the game is up.

republicans always knew a bomb in england was worth ten in ireland, even the fenians knew that in the 1870's, the provos didnt invent that stratagy with the canary job.

Chuck Stone · 27-09-2011 12:12AM

round tower huntsman wrote: »

republicans always knew a bomb in england was worth ten in ireland, even the fenians knew that in the 1870's, the provos didnt invent that stratagy with the canary job.

Why didn't they do it 1975 then?

Chuck Stone · 27-09-2011 12:14AM

I can't see your vids K-9. Can you put them in standard click links please?

dasdog · 27-09-2011 12:17AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Why didn't they do it 1975 then?

Because true to form they own goaled in 1974 in Birmingham and Guildford.

Ironically that one act act of violence Canary Wharf probably saved hundreds of lives in the long term.

round tower huntsman · 27-09-2011 12:18AM

irish seperatists have been planting bombs in england since the fenian times. semtex just allowed em to make bigger bangs. there was a bobming campaign in england in the 70's.

the canary warf bomb was just so big it shocked the brits, i think the fenians tried a similar job when the tried to burn down liverpool docks, docks being as important an economic target at that time as canary warf 100 yrs later.

Gaddafi and the IRA (ITV 1)

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