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PalazioVecchio south pole 15 Mar 19 10.01am | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Edited by Stirlingsays (15 Mar 2019 6.50am) Ta an cheart agat. You are correct. Make the 3 eastern counties 100% true blue prod Chelsea supporting. Make fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry 100% Catholic . supporters of a coalition of Everton, Liverpool ManUre , palace ,
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Mapletree Croydon 15 Mar 19 10.11am | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
If the British were going to stay in NI then the actions for retaining NI and significantly lowering attacks are there....not amicable for everyone but nothing would have been. As the Jews have shown us......you build a massive wall and ensure that only your lot are on the one side of it....then suddenly attacks drop massively. Trade would have to have been reconfigured but the costs would have probably worked out less than what we went through. We should have never sent troops there, just ensured the unionists were well armed and have built the wall. But I guess that's why the Jews have higher IQs than most. Edited by Stirlingsays (15 Mar 2019 6.50am) Good job you aren't a history teacher.
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Stirlingsays 15 Mar 19 10.16am | |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Good job you aren't a history teacher.
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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 15 Mar 19 10.48am | |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
Ta an cheart agat. You are correct. Make the 3 eastern counties 100% true blue prod Chelsea supporting. Make fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry 100% Catholic . supporters of a coalition of Everton, Liverpool ManUre , palace ,
I do feel the need to point out that N Ireland was already partitioned and cordoned off as a Unionist area. It really didn't work out that we'll - although perhaps not entirely badly.
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Badger11 Beckenham 15 Mar 19 10.52am | |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
I do feel the need to point out that N Ireland was already partitioned and cordoned off as a Unionist area. It really didn't work out that we'll - although perhaps not entirely badly. Agreed I understand the anger and call for justice of the families victims but that equally applies to the families of the many victims of terrorism. We have to move on and Blair's mistake was not to recognize that this applied to both sides.
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Stirlingsays 15 Mar 19 11.08am | |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
If the British are going to keep NI.....then allowing the Catholics in to populate its lands is going to end that......not all Catholics obviously but the majority will not vote for unionist parties and hence you will eventually by proxy have a united Ireland. If the point is to retain NI in the union.....that is imbecilic. But as anyone with two brain cells knows....the policy is to allow this to happen over decades....calm the horses before exiting. Originally posted by ASCPFC
To look at bad on segregation and partition look at India 1947. That really was a disaster for all and has major consequences still today. What exactly do you think was going on in the troubles?.....by not dividing we got exactly that....the death of thousands. As for India and pakistan.....Partition was inevitable.....force was the only thing that kept it together before...perhaps it's more a lesson to people who insist that very different peoples (religion again) can be forced to live together forever as communication and education improve.....It doesn't work and eventually conflict is inevitable. Originally posted by ASCPFC
As for the Israel analogy - have the Palestinians just accepted it all and there is no further conflict, either in the past, now or the future? The point of the wall is to ensure that attacks in Israel were vastly reduced.....the opponents of the wall insisted that this wouldn't happen.....but it is exactly what has and did happen. Segregation and partition has worked, and Israel is evidence for it. If you are going to have two separate nations on the same island....but a significant part of one nation won't accept it...as in the IRA. Then because war with Ireland was off the table then a wall was the only realistic method of ensuring they couldn't get at NI. Why does the attitude of your opponent....who hates you...matter? Originally posted by ASCPFC
As for the topic of this thread, I don't believe there is any point bringing up Bloody Sunday anymore. It should be consigned to the past like the troubles have been. There is nothing to be be gained by prosecuting some old soldier except appeasing people who will probably never forgive and forget. Well I'd agree that the Good Friday agreement should have covered this.....but it didn't so hence the thread. Edited by Stirlingsays (15 Mar 2019 11.42am)
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croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 15 Mar 19 3.25pm | |
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Bloke on tv last night said the ira were nothing but a bigger boy scout movement before bloody sunday, seeing 13 innocents slaughtered by hm forces made them the biggest terrorist movement europe has ever seen, you wouldn"t have had over 3000 people killed since as the "scout " movement wouldnt have gained thousands of young new recruits to fight the cause, those soldiers who decided not to follow orders have a lot of blood on their hands, and if found guilty should pay the price! The ira wern" into drugs either as someone said, they got their money from robbing banks and donations, mainly from the usa, and whoever said adams and mcguiness were informers must be living on fantasy island, you don"t walk around in public for 30 years and get away with it if you are an informer! Im happy with the normality that exists now in the country, north and south, the demographics will in time get a united ireland, catholic families bigger than protestant ones, moving into old protestant estates, general mixing up of communities, normality except for the die hards on both sides, but the sea is generally calm at the moment, long may it continue! The reason this country didn"t go and steamroll the ira, with our army, isn"t a moral one, it was because of 45 million irish in america, who ultimately pull the strings in the world, without the usa, no doubt we would have gone in and killed a whole lot more that 13 innocents, but as they say, god bless the united states of america!
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PalazioVecchio south pole 15 Mar 19 3.54pm | |
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i favour a slow ( 30 years +) partition of Northern Ireland into East and West, Prod and Catholic. use social housing, the dole etc to enforce the change. Prod living in Derry ? swap with Mrs Murphy living in Belfast...here is a few quid for your troubles. Catholic won't budge from their home in Warrenpoint ? cut their dole back. Very quickly the change would gather its own momentum. Peace all round. start with all the dole-heads and everybody else would follow.
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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 15 Mar 19 4.17pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Well I'd agree that the Good Friday agreement should have covered this.....but it didn't so hence the thread. Edited by Stirlingsays (15 Mar 2019 11.42am) Partition and particularly the way partition was done caused more problems than it solved. However, there did need to be a way to protect the Unionist population so maybe partition was the lesser of several evils.
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elgrande bedford 15 Mar 19 4.53pm | |
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Originally posted by Jamesey
Only one idiot on this thread so far...encouraging for anyone who believes that prosecuting our own army over what was obviously a civil war (although never admitted as such) is appalling.
Very good post.
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elgrande bedford 15 Mar 19 5.04pm | |
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Originally posted by croydon proud
Bloke on tv last night said the ira were nothing but a bigger boy scout movement before bloody sunday, seeing 13 innocents slaughtered by hm forces made them the biggest terrorist movement europe has ever seen, you wouldn"t have had over 3000 people killed since as the "scout " movement wouldnt have gained thousands of young new recruits to fight the cause, those soldiers who decided not to follow orders have a lot of blood on their hands, and if found guilty should pay the price! The ira wern" into drugs either as someone said, they got their money from robbing banks and donations, mainly from the usa, and whoever said adams and mcguiness were informers must be living on fantasy island, you don"t walk around in public for 30 years and get away with it if you are an informer! Im happy with the normality that exists now in the country, north and south, the demographics will in time get a united ireland, catholic families bigger than protestant ones, moving into old protestant estates, general mixing up of communities, normality except for the die hards on both sides, but the sea is generally calm at the moment, long may it continue! The reason this country didn"t go and steamroll the ira, with our army, isn"t a moral one, it was because of 45 million irish in america, who ultimately pull the strings in the world, without the usa, no doubt we would have gone in and killed a whole lot more that 13 innocents, but as they say, god bless the united states of america! A couple of points,so you say they should pay the consequences..fair enough,what about all the bombers let out by Blair ..should they go back to prison.
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croydon proud Any european country i fancy! 15 Mar 19 5.52pm | |
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Originally posted by elgrande
A couple of points,so you say they should pay the consequences..fair enough,what about all the bombers let out by Blair ..should they go back to prison. If those soldiers that didn"t follow orders and killed 13 innocents hadn"t done that , 3000 odd people might be around today, the reason all those others went to prison on nationalist and loyalist side was a consequence of the actions of those soldiers that day! And agreed 911 was a conseqence of the peace, but not as significant as the city square mile bombs, causing billions of pounds of damage to the city insurers, also 3 lifes! Nobody seemed to want to talk when 3000 plus people were killed on all sides, but when a billion pounds worth of damage is done with one truck they wanted to negotiate seriously, money talks as usual!
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