The IRA

[kinkysleftfoot]

The IRA lost all justification as freedom fighters as soon as took the fight out of Ireland........to take it to the mainland was bad enough but to take it to Germany and kill off duty servicemen???

 

[frasermcfc]

This thread shows one thing, that sympathizers of the IRA have, and will always have a hatred towards anything British, they will instill into their children what has been instilled into them, hatred and mis-trust.

And those sympathisers include the OP.

 

[Citizen52]

Last year the RIRA stated that members of the Armed Forces and their families are considered legitimate targets. That's the sort of people we are dealing with.

Look what happened to Ronan Kerr. It is sad that there are still people out there who insist on picking away at the scab, a term I use quite loosely given how many peace walls are still up in Belfast.

 

[thorpeblue]

Going back to the original subject of the thread I suppose in south Armagh the op might be sort of right in a roundabout way, they managed to force a pretty powerful military force off the roads and into helicopters. Going on patrol in crossmaglen and some of the areas around there was pretty fooking scary, newtonhamilton was another place where you could just feel the hatred, on another tour in the ardoyne I moved out of the way of a woman with her shopping and she gobbed in my face, a few minutes later she quietly apologised and said it was because certain people were watching! In my personal experience the ones down by the border were to a certain extent a formidable force, the dickheads in urban areas were the bullying thugs that ran neighbourhoods like some kind of mafia.

 

[pauldominic]

Correct.
Michael stone was given a firearm and grenades to kill adams and mcginness, at a funeral in milltown by the british army.

Even if you say it was a legitimate war them 2 cunts should face war crimes prosecution
As should a lit of British military and politicians who helped in colusion to kill innocent Catholics. No side is blameless

Like Lord Gerry Fitt.

Adams and McGuiness were among the first to recognise that the only solution was a political one.

Hence the creation of Sinn Fein.<br /><br />-- Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:41 pm --<br /><br />

Going back to the original subject of the thread I suppose in south Armagh the op might be sort of right in a roundabout way, they managed to force a pretty powerful military force off the roads and into helicopters. Going on patrol in crossmaglen and some of the areas around there was pretty fooking scary, newtonhamilton was another place where you could just feel the hatred, on another tour in the ardoyne I moved out of the way of a woman with her shopping and she gobbed in my face, a few minutes later she quietly apologised and said it was because certain people were watching! In my personal experience the ones down by the border were to a certain extent a formidable force, the dickheads in urban areas were the bullying thugs that ran neighbourhoods like some kind of mafia.

If I could give an award, I would award you for this post.

Very well said.

 

[mammutly]

Last year the RIRA stated that members of the Armed Forces and their families are considered legitimate targets. That's the sort of people we are dealing with.

Sadly, that too is the mirror image of what was a long standing RUC/ British Army policy.

There are real horror stories on both sides.

As for the RIRA and CIRA, the political wranglings of Stormont and the lack of progress on fully implementing the Good Friday Agreement is playing right into the hands of them and their Loyalist counterparts. Whilst Adams, Robinson and the like may have won the peace in Ireland, they are not the kind of politicians needed to take the country forward.

Policing, parades, housing and education are the areas that need seriously addressing. In Stormont there is too much posturing and trench building. There is vast frustration amongst a lot of the population and a drift back to extremism and violence is a real danger. The country needs pragmatic, capable politicians , not the old bloody flag wavers that they have now.

 

[tueartsboots]

Correct.
Michael stone was given a firearm and grenades to kill adams and mcginness, at a funeral in milltown by the british army.

Even if you say it was a legitimate war them 2 cunts should face war crimes prosecution
As should a lit of British military and politicians who helped in colusion to kill innocent Catholics. No side is blameless

Like Lord Gerry Fitt.

Adams and McGuiness were among the first to recognise that the only solution was a political one.

Hence the creation of Sinn Fein.

-- Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:41 pm --

Going back to the original subject of the thread I suppose in south Armagh the op might be sort of right in a roundabout way, they managed to force a pretty powerful military force off the roads and into helicopters. Going on patrol in crossmaglen and some of the areas around there was pretty fooking scary, newtonhamilton was another place where you could just feel the hatred, on another tour in the ardoyne I moved out of the way of a woman with her shopping and she gobbed in my face, a few minutes later she quietly apologised and said it was because certain people were watching! In my personal experience the ones down by the border were to a certain extent a formidable force, the dickheads in urban areas were the bullying thugs that ran neighbourhoods like some kind of mafia.

If I could give an award, I would award you for this post.

Very well said.

Sinn Fein was founded in 1905. Adams/Maguinnes had nothing to with it.

 

[Zubrman]

I can not take any sympathetic view of the IRA as I was very nearly killed by them in 1991.

I was a security guard in an office in London, and was walking a patrol of the building on an otherwise uneventful Friday night in April.

Half-way through my patrol the rear wall of the six-storey building was blown off by a bomb placed outside the Baltic Exchange.

Two minutes earlier and I would not be posting here tonight.

I was just doing a boring, low-paid job to earn a crust. I had no anti-Irish feelings before then.

I am a lot calmer and much less vociferous now, but that kind of experience does alter one's opinion on people a tad.

 

[tueartsboots]

I can not take any sympathetic view of the IRA as I was very nearly killed by them in 1991.

I was a security guard in an office in London, and was walking a patrol of the building on an otherwise uneventful Friday night in April.

Half-way through my patrol the rear wall of the six-storey building was blown off by a bomb placed outside the Baltic Exchange.

Two minutes earlier and I would not be posting here tonight.

I was just doing a boring, low-paid job to earn a crust. I had no anti-Irish feelings before then.

I am a lot calmer and much less vociferous now, but that kind of experience does alter one's opinion on people a tad.

Bloody hell mate. I take it your not allowed to drive your train through Kilburn then? ;)

 

[Zubrman]

I can not take any sympathetic view of the IRA as I was very nearly killed by them in 1991.

I was a security guard in an office in London, and was walking a patrol of the building on an otherwise uneventful Friday night in April.

Half-way through my patrol the rear wall of the six-storey building was blown off by a bomb placed outside the Baltic Exchange.

Two minutes earlier and I would not be posting here tonight.

I was just doing a boring, low-paid job to earn a crust. I had no anti-Irish feelings before then.

I am a lot calmer and much less vociferous now, but that kind of experience does alter one's opinion on people a tad.

Bloody hell mate. I take it your not allowed to drive your train through Kilburn then? ;)

Kentish Town is as close as I'll go.