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intaglio

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4. Now get the proof
Sun May 4, 2014, 01:39 PM
May 2014

You know what allows juries to convict.

And, yes, I did live in London during the 1970s bombing campaign and, yes, I did have a bomb go off near me. and yes I did know people injured by bombs and killings, they were servicemen.

But remember if you want prosecutions of Sinn Fein you will have to also prosecute for all the extra-judicial deaths caused by the British forces. If you wish include the tortures committed by the IRA but remember that the Prods also tortured and so did the British forces.

Now let's consider in all the lives that Adams and McGuinnis saved by negotiating. Let's look at South Africa and the reconciliation commissions

Now stop thinking that revenge does anything except engender more violence.

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Gerry Adams should be in jail; mr blur May 2014 #1
Now get the proof intaglio May 2014 #4
Agreeing to stop having people murdered is not the same as saving lives! Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #11
Negotiating in good faith to end the Troubles did save lives intaglio May 2014 #20
Which is why Trimble and Hume were awarded a Nobel peace prize. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #23
Adams and McGuinness had to work round the gangsters and hardliners intaglio May 2014 #26
Do you think that "revenge" is a good choice of words for a common-or-garden legal system? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #27
Compare to the South African case, which I also mentioned intaglio May 2014 #29
Which point requires an answer? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #30
The one highlighted which you have studiously avoided intaglio May 2014 #31
You mean the one I just answered, in the post you replied to accusing me of avoiding? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #32
And you don't think the terrorist proddy PSNI would have done that if they could? RB TexLa May 2014 #5
What, you mean the one Adams and McGuinness have endorsed? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #7
PSNI didn't need to be terrorists when they had the UDA Recursion May 2014 #36
Great. Thanks! ucrdem May 2014 #2
Stay well President Gerry Adams CountAllVotes May 2014 #3
Or, better, die slowly and painfully. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #8
What the PSNI was up to was trying to find one of the IRA's victims' bodies. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #6
Bloody-handed murderers aren't generally released without charges. ucrdem May 2014 #9
...Are you serious? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #10
If that was "part of the process" they wouldn't still be trying to frame him. ucrdem May 2014 #12
Correct, ergo they are not trying to frame him. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #13
They tried and they failed. ucrdem May 2014 #14
Do you have a single scrap of evidence? Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #15
Ahem, we're discussing it. He was arrested. Then released without charges. ucrdem May 2014 #16
We should have let Germany take your island. Cause you people would have never RB TexLa May 2014 #17
Post removed Post removed May 2014 #18
I'm saying in the 1940's we should have done nothing for you people. RB TexLa May 2014 #19
You are, of course, at least 85 years old and a war veteran? N.T. Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #21
No, just saying it was what your island deserved. RB TexLa May 2014 #22
"You people." Iggo May 2014 #24
It does make me wonder if (s)he knows I'm Jewish... Donald Ian Rankin May 2014 #25
I don't care. And I have the same views of britian and it's history as many people in the world do RB TexLa May 2014 #28
Would you have been perfectly happy with Hitler taking over Europe? LeftishBrit May 2014 #33
We could have saved the rest of Europe RB TexLa May 2014 #34
Recommended. H2O Man May 2014 #35
This was nothing more than a shameful political maneuver riderinthestorm May 2014 #37
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