I am always in favour of justice, but it has to work both ways. We have released hundreds of IRA terrorists, many guilty of the most appalling atrocities and we have done it all in the name of the peace process and reconciliation. Should we, and the republican community, not view this in the same light?
And if not, should we not hold full inquiries into Lisburn, Omagh and Enniskillen? Should we not bring to justice those guilty of those atrocities?
I hope that the families of the thirteen who were killed will be satisfied with a verdict by the Saville Inquiry of 'unlawful killing'. And I would hope that republican politicians in Northern Ireland will see the sense of leaving it at that.
But I have my doubts.
The reaction of McGuinness and Adams - as well as loyalist politicians - today will tell us a lot about the real depth of reconciliation in Northern Ireland.
This could be quite interesting, actually.
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"The reaction of McGuinness and Adams - as well as loyalist politicians - today will tell us a lot about the real depth of reconciliation in Northern Ireland."
I don't think their reaction is going to surprise anyone...
Agreed. If it goes on like this we'll be apologising for slavery next.
Ah... right.
I was just going to make a comment but anything I might have said is trumped by the fact that the current WV is
MICKALL
From what I heard the families are calling for prosecutions of the soldiers, but NOT for them to be jailed.
Re my second comment, iDave actually apologised today. For what exactly, he was about six years old when it happened?
Yeah, let's prosecute the soldiers, why not, but if I were iDave (which I'm not) I would then gleefully give them a free pardon.
Nothing infuriates me like these faux apologies. Of course there is nothing the modern political class likes better than to demonstrate cheap and easy virtue, without real effort and without risk.
There was some nonentity descendant of the great Sir John Hawkins going on recently about his evil ancestor and the slave trade. Not fit to kiss Sir John's toe, but eager for a pat on the head from the BBC and the politically correct crowd.
I have never considered that the Paras were wrong to open fire in the first place.
It is proven that they had come under small-arms fire before they started shooting.
McGuinness was one of those who shot at the troops. He wanted to precipitate the shooting by the Paras because he knew that the innocent crowd he and his thugs had caused to be there were to be nothing other than sacrificial lambs to his evil cause.
Engineered from top to bottom by the IRA was this entire debacle.
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