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In reply to the discussion: Gerry Adams to be released without charge this evening [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)4. Now get the proof
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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Agreeing to stop having people murdered is not the same as saving lives!
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2014
#11
Do you think that "revenge" is a good choice of words for a common-or-garden legal system?
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2014
#27
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 the PSNI was up to was trying to find one of the IRA's victims' bodies.
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2014
#6
We should have let Germany take your island. Cause you people would have never
RB TexLa
May 2014
#17