The DUP.
Fuck me what a horrible shower of bastards. Not intent with inflaming sectarian division , they sent Protestant working class people to war while they all retired to their professional jobs full of greed and corruption.
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That was the argument put forth yesâŚ
And how has that worked out? If Irish history teaches us anything itâs that âthe means to achieveâ argument is bullshit. The 26 \ 6 became the status quo and for 50 years the 26 didnât give a fuck about what was happening in the 6.
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A bit like Birmingham, the bombers will claim that they didnât mean to kill so many. In Birmingham the phone box identified to call in the warning was vandalised and they had to find another, losing vital seconds before the bomb exploded. In Omagh, they got the street name wrong in their warning to UTV causing chaos and people running into the bomb.
If they really cared the most important part of their planning was to make sure the warning was delivered on time and correctly.
Maybe just donât plant the bombs to begin with in busy town centres packed with civilians. Republicans always the victims and always someone else to blame.
Did the leading of the Rising claim they did not intend for so many civilians to be killed.
Such a fucking hypocrite.
It was a ridiculous promise. The Free State set-up was going to take all the energy for many years. That, alongside the radicalised Protestant majority in the six counties, meant it was never going to happen for a century anyway.
I know that⌠And donât dispute that turning our backs on our backs on our northern brethren caused the troubles as much as anything⌠shameful.
@farmerinthecityâs take on the DUP above could easily be used about FF/FG ⌠More interested in building their own personal fortunes than helping people.
You canât compare the civil war with Omagh tho⌠Not on the back of the GFA⌠The GFA was seismic and itâs message was loud and clear⌠the whole island wanted an end to violence. The question then becomes who were the continuity IRA bombing on behalf of? A few fanatics?
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You can.
The Rising leaders did not plant random bombs in crowded civilian areas and walk away.
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Iâm not telling lies but evidently you are.
No they had a gun battle in the middle of a crowded city that 260 civilians died in
Much more dignified.
You bampot.
Civilians werenât deliberately targeted though.
Also they fought man on man. They werenât cowardly enough to drop a bomb in a civilian area and then run away.
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They werenât deliberately targeted in Omagh either.
Unless youâre saying having a city centre gun battle is more acceptable than a city centre pre warned bombing?
I struggle to see any semblance of logic from you here. The civilian loss of life during the Rising was circa 10x more of that than Omagh.
âExcuse me Doris, I just want to shoot my gun at that British gentleman there if you would not mind crossing the road first, thanks.â
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Yet they were cowardly enough to shoot guns at each other with innocent civilians in plain sight.
If youâre going to kill civilians thereâs the @farmerinthecity way and then thereâs the wrong way.
Would you go away you clown!
Thatâs what youâve said, youâve defended the killing of 260 civilians because they were shot with stray bullets in a city centre gun fight. The @farmerinthecity way and the wrong way to kill a civilian.
It really is refreshing to see this Road to Damascus conversion from @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy - calling out the 1916 Rising as the wanton slaughter and bloodlust that it was and Michael Collins as a sectarian murdering thug.
No the start of meaningful peace I think