Are you suggesting that he doesn't have the same knowledge about other murder victims of the IRA?I think the difference is that we know he has specific knowledge he is not disclosing in this case (the identity of the IRA man in the van at a minimum). For all the other stuff he'd probably say you'd have to ask the IRA ...him having never been a member and all that.....
In fairness I think they do want to get this Truth & Reconciliation thing going and divulge some/most/all of these facts - under the cover of immunity of course.
When members of a political party have done the same thing in relation to murder they get to lead the third biggest political party in the country.
We are a bunch of hypocrites and to some extent we considered the murder of a 19 year old kid from the North of England, who joined the Army to get away from poverty, and knew and cared nothing about the politics of Northern Ireland, as somehow okay but the murder of someone from our country was a terrible crime.Why do you think that is Purple.
We are a bunch of hypocrites and to some extent we considered the murder of a 19 year old kid from the North of England, who joined the Army to get away from poverty, and knew and cared nothing about the politics of Northern Ireland, as somehow okay but the murder of someone from our country was a terrible crime.
So some teenage squaddie who joins the army to get out of some soulless pit in the North of England is a legitimate target because he "took up a gun"? Give me a break.People who know and care nothing about the politics of a place, yet take up a gun and go there at the behest of some politician are responsible for a great deal of trouble in the world. From Vietnam via NI to Iraq. Don't even get me started on Malaysia
Thought I heard the words "Peace Process" being bandied about in these parts. Nothing winds me up more
Thought I heard the words "Peace Process" being bandied about in these parts. Nothing winds me up more
Ever notice it is only Nationalists who talk about the PP.
especially after Catholics got everything they could ask for at Sunningdale in 1974.
I was on the spot at the time but, look, I'm not claiming that gives me any special rank in the discussion. I was that young nationalist who had been weaned from primary school on the narrative that we were second class citizens, that Stormont was the seat of a Protestant parliament for a Protestant people (ok some truth in these gripes, but worth 3,000 lives?).I am sure your memory is better than mine, but as far as I remember, no-one got anything from the Sunningdale agreement because in practice it never happened and in law it existed only a matter of months.
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