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You put a soldier in a policing role and you are going to have mistakes/accidents call it what you will.
How many of those troops thought they were going to be attacked and killed like the 2 squaddies caught at that IRA funeral and opened fire because they felt threatened.
An inquest years later cannot show the feelings and fears of what was going on at the time. It's easy to blame the soldiers but if the rioters hadn't been there they wouldn't have got shot.
My stepfather was over there as a Major in the Royal engineers supervising the defensive works around police stations and other IRA targets. His view was all the violence could have been stopped in a week. They knew every person in the IRA, where they were and could have 'removed' them easily but Politics.
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"Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article."
Says it all.
There's been talk recently about how the army could be called on to help with all the stabby stabby knife crimes that are happening right now so the timing of the Bloody Sunday prosecutions will have a big effect on what soldiers will be willing to do if they are asked to help police the streets.
Then we've got the Brexit civil unrest that might or might not happen.
I strongly believe that Solider F should not be prosecuted. If anyone is to blame then it's someone higher up the chain of command. Prosecuting members of the armed forces but not terrorists from the IRA makes a mockery of the so called justice system. |
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Completely agree.
A few years ago I remember the Queen visiting Ireland, and the news articles were all about Martin McGuinness 'lowering' himself to shake hands with her. |
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A para with a loaded rifle is a deadly weapon.
Someone put that deadly weapon in a crowded street and pointed it down range.
If you use an elitew infantry unit for a policing situation, people will be shot. Their response to threat is not the same as a policeman. Nor should it be.
In the interests of truth and reconcilliation, I wouldn't necessarily object to a trial if it was understood that in the event of a guilty verdict, the squaddie would be released to go about his business in the same way all the convicted IRA terrorists have been. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Unless the Army you join is the Irish Republican Army.
Then you can end up in Politics |
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Hope this link works, I'm a bit too gammon to do this stuff reliably.
Andrew Neil really going to town. I learnt a lot:
90% of killings in The Troubles were carried out by terrorists
IRA was killing before the British army
As part of the peace process, IRA veterans were pardonned and given "Letters of comfort" (?). No prosecutions.
Face it, everyone is shitting themselves about the IRA coming back.
https://www.facebook.com/War1982/videos/941317602695184/?t=0 |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 43 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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