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Bloody Sunday prosecution

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Somerville · 14/03/2019 11:57

Only one man will be prosecuted for murdering civilians at the Bloody Sunday civil rights march.

The long-delayed inquiry found that all the killings were unjustified, that every adult and child who was killed had been unarmed, and that no warnings were gven before soldiers opened fire.

British justice at it's finest, eh?

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AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:05

The goady fuckers on this thread is unreal.

Basically: IRA - Bad
UVF/RUC/BRITISH ARMY - Good

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:06

My question as to who was brought to justice was in response to you saying

Weetabix the above does totally make it sound like you think no one was brought to justice for that bombing

Of course it could just be a mis-choosing of words.......
@RockyFlintstone and I was meaning everyone who would have been involved, as I wrote in my 1st post.

We were clearly referring to different incidents and I didn't realise until a bit further on. I'm sorry if my account is not perfect, nearly 40 years after the event. I know where I was and I know what happened. Believe me or don't.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:07

The RUC (now the PSNI), loyalist paramilitaries and the actual British army murdered, yes MURDERED innocent Irish people.
Yet when the IRA retaliated, we're the baddies.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:08

I know where I was

Well where were you? Because you sure as hell were not in Harrods.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:10

Don't bloody lie on here about some imagined traumatic event you were 'caught up in'. Fucking coffin chaser.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:11

Do you know where Harrods is?

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:11

Gobshites on here. Honestly. It makes me so annoyed.

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:15

AnyWalls

You are bang out of order.

Because I assumed that I was wrong about no one being tried and assumed that another poster must know better that makes me a liar?

It was a Saturday afternoon. We were going to the Palladium later on to see a show but had gone sightseeing first. You are bang out of order.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:16

And Soldier F, is being charged with TWO COUNTS OF MURDER and FOUR COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Did you think the Irish people should just take that lying down?

17 soldiers were investigated. They could only make charges stick on one of them, as after 47 years, the evidence is destroyed and there is fuck all left to go on. The CPS equivalent in NI was clear in stating that it did not mean the other 16 were innocent. It was just that there was no evidence that would be either admissible in court or capable of withstanding a trial.

That's 17 fucking murdering bastards employed by the British government in my book!

Sakura7 · 15/03/2019 15:16

To be fair AnyWalls the majority here get it. There's only a small few being goady.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:17

I'm not fucking out of order. How exactly were you caught up in this? Were you in London for the day or something? Because your original claim suggests you were in Harrods while a bomb went off. Which is a lie, isn't it?

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:18

And as for seeking to justify terrorists as "retaliating" is appalling.

There is no justification for attacking innocent people no matter what side you are on.

Not once have I justified anything yet you're happy to support terrorist attacks because they were retaliation? Thats disgusting.

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Somerville · 15/03/2019 15:20

I don’t really want to engage with the derailer, but just to say that most times I hear people who didn’t grow up in a war zone tell me about being ‘caught up’ in something, it turns out they meant why were in the general vicinity/got evacuated from a large building because of the bomb outside, or similar. Those of us in Derry and elsewhere experienced so much violence-in-the-vicinity that that was just life. When we were ‘caught up’ in violence we mean we were it literally caught in crossfire and had to jump behind a postbox on the walk to school. Or having a relative or friend killed or injured. Or being so close we were covered in blood. Or having a British soldier put a gun in our mouth and threaten us. Or being sexually assaulted by a British soldier while his friends laughed and called us offensive names.

I want to go on the people’s vote march in London next week but I’m pathetically still really scared of marches - childhood overshadowed by Bloody sunday.

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AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:22

Well it's not as if they were going to get vengeance in a court of law is it? When the rule of law fails, people will take matters into their own hands. That's a fact of life.

Still can't remember where you were on that day when 'the horror will never leave you'?

Nope? Didn't fucking think so.

I find your bloody gory claim to fame disgusting.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:24

I suspect Weetabix was in London that day and was 'caught up in it'. In Wimbledon or somewhere. Grin

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:24

Were you in London for the day or something? Because your original claim suggests you were in Harrods while a bomb went off. Which is a lie, isn't it?

But harrods is in London???? We weren't inside Harrods no and I didn't say that we were. We were in Knightsbridge, and very close. The only people who witnessed 911 were in the WTC? People in the streets outside all saw it and were caught up in it.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:26

Oh, and what were you doing in Knightsbridge? Because I know that's a damned lie too! Sad. Have you a version of Munchausens or something?

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:27

Ok, I'll indulge your fantasy. What did you witness exactly that leaves you with horror that you will never forget to this day (despite not remembering which decade this happened).

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:28

AnyWalls
What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever been to London?

We are allowed to move around you know. We were in Knightsbridge to go to Harrods. How else would you get there?

Weetabixandshreddies · 15/03/2019 15:29

What did you witness exactly that leaves you with horror that you will never forget to this day (despite not remembering which decade this happened).

I think you are showing yourself up here.

AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:30

And back to the OP, the families were happy that at least one will face justice. Maybe it will make him turn whistleblower since he'll be the only one standing in the dock.

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Somerville · 15/03/2019 15:31

Feel free to leave the thread if you don’t like the questions, Weetabix

(Please)

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AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:31

Only person showing themselves up here is a liar.

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Somerville · 15/03/2019 15:31

Maybe it will make him turn whistleblower since he'll be the only one standing in the dock.

Ooh, good point.

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AnyWalls · 15/03/2019 15:32

He has to be about 70 or tipping it now. So for 2 murders he's going to serve fuck all time. Assuming he's convicted of course.