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fratoue
30-01-2009, 02:34 PM
Today (30th January) marks the 37th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in which 27 unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry were callously shot by British paratroopers of which 14 of them died (8 of whom were less than 20 years old). R.I.P.
I put this up also because as we get closer to the big brother state everyday I can't help but feel we'll get more and more innocent civilians shot dead in the Western World (especially America) by police and armies.
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 02:46 PM
Today (30th January) marks the 37th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in which 27 unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry were callously shot by British paratroopers of which 14 of them died (8 of whom were less than 20 years old). R.I.P.
I put this up also because as we get closer to the big brother state everyday I can't help but feel we'll get more and more innocent civilians shot dead in the Western World (especially America) by police and armies.
The old IRA (not the Provos) always maintained that the reason for British Troops on the streets of NI was developing urban combat strategy for the day when it would be used in British cities.
Lesson for us all.
http://www.designersnotebook.com/News/images/Free_Derry.jpg
Been to Derry many times - the nicest people you could meet anywhere on earth and they got their priorities right.
http://www.blackshamrock.org/attachments/sep2006/1.jpg
entrangermercenary
30-01-2009, 02:50 PM
The old IRA (not the Provos) always maintained that the reason for British Troops on the streets of NI was developing urban combat strategy for the day when it would be used in British cities.
Lesson for us all.
http://www.designersnotebook.com/News/images/Free_Derry.jpg
Been to Derry many times - the nicest people you could meet anywhere on earth and they got their priorities right.
http://www.blackshamrock.org/attachments/sep2006/1.jpg
Yep free to be beaten, kneecapped and tarred and feathered awesome!!
mistress_medusa
30-01-2009, 02:54 PM
"Now I must say I'm very grateful you've come over. Me and Lynne are big fans of all the Irish stuff. Love your pop music, Enya, and the other one..ripped up the Pope, bald chap? And I think thats it.."
"Well, there's U2, of course"
"Oh, well, yeah. Fantastic. Sunday Bloody Sunday. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think Sunday, bloody Sunday!"
"I really hate to do this to you, Alan, but it's actually a song about.."
"Yeah, bloody Sunday is actually about a massacre in Derry in 1972"
"A massacre? Ugh. I'm not playing that again"
..surely I'm not the only person who thought of this :D
penguin
30-01-2009, 03:05 PM
"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"It takes a second to say goodbye"
The album "War" is U2's best album and the most meaningfull.
I will never stop playing it.
And I knew what it ment from the fisrt day I heard it.
RIP and respect
:)
sorath
30-01-2009, 03:20 PM
I'll add to this thread by giving my respect to all those murdered by the IRA.
Two sides to every story!
Lest we forget.
penguin
30-01-2009, 03:30 PM
I dont blame the irish for anything.
They have fight in them, they have been fighting invasions since 1169.
That shows how strong and determind they are to keep thier indipendance.
I raise a guinness to you guys.
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 04:34 PM
Yep free to be beaten, kneecapped and tarred and feathered awesome!!
The leader of the group in the front is Eamon McCann a Socialist and ciivil right marcher who was there on Bloody Sunday trying to tell the crowd to calm down and not let the troops wind them up. He was lucky the bullets went over his head.
The photo is a protest against weapons export, not a pro IRA event.
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 04:37 PM
I'll add to this thread by giving my respect to all those murdered by the IRA.
Two sides to every story!
Lest we forget.
Well said. The IRA were the biggest killers of all.
Not to mention the highest single mass killing of the Troubles when British Agents planted 3 car bombs in the centre of Dublin killing 33 people including an entire family and their unborn baby who was expoded out of her mother's wombs and landed on the roof of shop 1000 feet away.
It's nearly always inocent people who suffer.
gu3rr1lla
30-01-2009, 04:45 PM
the ra are a bunch of nob jockeys. They are just as bad as the loyalists.
gu3rr1lla
30-01-2009, 04:46 PM
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1mKaxN6EY
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 04:51 PM
the ra are a bunch of nob jockeys. They are just as bad as the loyalists.
There Provos were an Mi5 front anyways. The Irish Government found this out back in 1970. This is what caused the huge row between the British and Irish governments at the time. The whole thing was buried and dealth with by Provo propganda which refused to recognise the Irish Republic and declaring the country to be traitors and sell outs. Many a time I was called a "Free State West Brit Bastard" if someone heard my southern accent.
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 04:52 PM
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1mKaxN6EY
The live version recorded at Red Rocks is even better.
U2 went from that to taking their former stylist to Irish High COurts to get Bono's hat back. What went wrong...
gu3rr1lla
30-01-2009, 04:57 PM
There Provos were an Mi5 front anyways. The Irish Government found this out back in 1970. This is what caused the huge row between the British and Irish governments at the time. The whole thing was buried and dealth with by Provo propganda which refused to recognise the Irish Republic and declaring the country to be traitors and sell outs. Many a time I was called a "Free State West Brit Bastard" if someone heard my southern accent.
yeah exactly. That adams guy goes on like a kid same with that other aul git forget his name the white haired reptilian looking guy lol.
the men of 1916 are heroes to me the real true fighters for Ireland. especially padraig pearse, i love his poems and his touch with nature that he had.
endlessvista
30-01-2009, 05:02 PM
the men of 1916 are heroes to me the real true fighters for Ireland. especially padraig pearse, i love his poems and his touch with nature that he had.
Pearse even ran a school were children were introduced to music art and poetry then drama astronomy and natural science. Then were they were introduced to that, their formal education would begin. The school ended up being populated by children who loved learning and the joy of discovery while reaching the highest acedemic levels at national testing.
Then they put him up against a wall and filled his heart with lead.
Because of the Provos during the troubles and them bombing people in the IK in pubs, the average British person (and many Irish ones) do not know that the founders of Irish Republicanism had high noble intentions and were not savages but cultured and honest men. That's the tragedy of the Troubles. The Mi5 Provo operaition ruined this legacy.