The AUDacity of them .
Do you agree with Bomber Harrisâs blanket bombings
Audacity of the Brits ref plastic bullet murder of children
Can go tit for tat all day bud- solves nothing,he said she said- he did this he didnât etc etc
Sweep, sweep.
Yes under the carpet is the best place for the truth
Nobody.
@flattythehurdler has defended British intelligence callously targeting a single mother of 10 to be an informant and the risks that came with it.
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Itâs the Jean McConville thread. Whatâs this, an attempt by the Pretend IRA to implicate Bomber Harris in her murder and disappearance?
You are selective in your condemnation - Brits all over the world destroyed nations ,yet you say nothing of their wrongdoings in the 6 counties,not a mind in Ireland as a whole-i feel sorry for you- plastic paddy- ashamed of your supposed heritage- so fuck off back to the shires
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Answer ref Your hero Harris,or do you have to Google itđ
It says a lot about your government that, knowing the implications of informing she went ahead and did it. Whatever threats they made against her and her family to force her to inform were worse than the implications she knew were ahead if she was caught.
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The IRA were as bad as the Church they belonged to. Misogynistic child rapists the lot of them
Lots of whataboutery on show here.
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The resident tans donât see this at all. They support Bradley. They donât believe the state played any role in North of Ireland at allâŚ
How do they square the triangle that the IRA in the 60s was two men, a dog and three old hurleys⌠Yet within a couple of years of the Tan army being deployed on the streets there were thousands on active duty⌠I must add, that itâs well documented that the tan soldiers were welcomed as saviours by nationalist communities when they first arrivedâŚWithin two years nationalists just decided to round on them for no reason apparently.
Thatâs what @GeoffreyBoycott and @flattythehurdler would have us believe anyway⌠The result of the Ballymurphy massacre will be another disaster for these boys tho⌠Women, children and old men slaughtered. Derry the same⌠And countless moreâŚ
None of that can justify killing Jean Mac⌠But to only point the blame at one section of Society during this period is straight out of the Tory /Orange play book.
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Lines become very blurred in that time. Every adult living in the O6 knew the consequences of what being a tout was if they got caught. Hindsight is a great thing but in 1970s Belfast, she was a tout who was giving information over to the Brits that put the lives of volunteers in danger, she got a free pass the first time around because she was a single mother, this is more than most people got. The sentence of being a tout is pretty much the same in any country that a war is situ at the time. People who now would feel that what they did was wrong back then but at the time they felt it was right and that was understandable.
There were many worse and more unjust killings by the Provos that Jean McConville, itâs convenient for a lot of people that the lens is never focused on those who approached or forced her to become a tout.
What happended to Jean McConville is generally what happens to informers in any given conflict. Why the Brits felt that it was acceptable that a single mother of 10 should run that risk is the biggest question? Then again coercing a false statement and blackmailing an innocent 16 year old boy was fair game for them around this time when it came to recruiting informants.
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Information and the gathering of it is one of the three main reasons men forget their morality, in any era. Natural resources and religion are the others.
Torture, murder, kidnapping are all fair game in the gathering or advancement of all three, whether by government or extremist organisation.
It has always and always will be thus.
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Unfortunately yes
Thatâs an obscene post.
How so? Jean McConville by being a tout put her life in danger at her own discretion.
Many casualties of the Provos were non combatants who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Most of the IRA were touts, including the top man in the nutting squad.