“Fenian” is a political designation, so it was members of one nation attacking members of another nation as part of a continuing dispute over national rights. That’s not the same thing as sectarianism – nor is it the ‘racism’ that Diane Hamill presents it as being.”-Dave.
-Your Roy Keane Syndrome is getting worse.Go see a doctor and don’t forget to pay him lots of money for placebos.
and so what did the Irish government sign up for? and now that the tiger is dead what will they regret?
“To develop this further – even though, as I say, I no longer accept your bona fides, since you know full well the difference between what a soldier lawfully has to do and murder, without me needing to explain it to you – an Argentian solider who, quite lawfully, was firing at a Marine in the Falklands War could already have been a murderer by virtue of what he might have unlawfully done during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’. For you see, the same word can have different meanings, nuances and uses. But you don’t really ‘see’ that because of course you already knew it.”
-laughing unionist tory.in Heath to Kensei.
Back to the BBC!
Now;any chance of your opinion on the GFA?
LTU,
Murder is Murder is murder.
Now, what is your position on the Good Friday Agreement?
BEcause if a soldier murders in circumstances that qualify it,
then the GFA qualifys the IRA war and indeed the British war in Ireland.Please discuss.
Thunder here so lets indeed.
First of all, it is not ‘my’ government as
my government sits on the mainland;Belgium,to
be percise.
As for your desire to get ‘us’ closer to understanding why people can differenciate
between post-GFA and pre-GFA you should try
Irish history and precisely the 1912-1921 era.
oh,didn’t the tories support the good friday agreement or was that the UUP i’m thinking of.
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Comment on “if that means dropping a couple of the attackers..”
on 31 May 2009 at 3:25 am
“Fenian” is a political designation, so it was members of one nation attacking members of another nation as part of a continuing dispute over national rights. That’s not the same thing as sectarianism – nor is it the ‘racism’ that Diane Hamill presents it as being.”-Dave.
-Your Roy Keane Syndrome is getting worse.Go see a doctor and don’t forget to pay him lots of money for placebos.
and so what did the Irish government sign up for? and now that the tiger is dead what will they regret?
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Comment on Green New Deal – PEB
on 31 May 2009 at 3:04 am
Are these the same Greens that sold out Tara to get into bedroom with FF?
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Comment on Irish Times polling figures
on 31 May 2009 at 2:49 am
-I feel abused:
Personally, I’d tell the police that he just threw a log through my window.
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Comment on “They certainly got a reaction this time”
on 27 May 2009 at 2:08 am
Ltu.GFA?
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Comment on “They certainly got a reaction this time”
on 27 May 2009 at 12:11 am
“To develop this further – even though, as I say, I no longer accept your bona fides, since you know full well the difference between what a soldier lawfully has to do and murder, without me needing to explain it to you – an Argentian solider who, quite lawfully, was firing at a Marine in the Falklands War could already have been a murderer by virtue of what he might have unlawfully done during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’. For you see, the same word can have different meanings, nuances and uses. But you don’t really ‘see’ that because of course you already knew it.”
-laughing unionist tory.in Heath to Kensei.
Back to the BBC!
Now;any chance of your opinion on the GFA?
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Comment on “They certainly got a reaction this time”
on 26 May 2009 at 11:27 pm
LTU,
Murder is Murder is murder.
Now, what is your position on the Good Friday Agreement?
BEcause if a soldier murders in circumstances that qualify it,
then the GFA qualifys the IRA war and indeed the British war in Ireland.Please discuss.
Go to comment
Comment on “They certainly got a reaction this time”
on 26 May 2009 at 7:37 pm
LTU,
Thunder here so lets indeed.
First of all, it is not ‘my’ government as
my government sits on the mainland;Belgium,to
be percise.
As for your desire to get ‘us’ closer to understanding why people can differenciate
between post-GFA and pre-GFA you should try
Irish history and precisely the 1912-1921 era.
oh,didn’t the tories support the good friday agreement or was that the UUP i’m thinking of.
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Comment on “They certainly got a reaction this time”
on 26 May 2009 at 6:39 pm
LTU,
So you are anti-Good friday agreement.
We get it already.You may be bitter that you
didn’t get to vote on it.But your government
agreed to it.
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Comment on Cameron calls for an end to Northern Ireland 16 (yes, 16) double jobbing MPs…
on 21 May 2009 at 6:55 pm
If all powers were devolved, there would be no need to have MPs.Problem solved
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Comment on Cameron calls for an end to Northern Ireland 16 (yes, 16) double jobbing MPs…
on 21 May 2009 at 6:54 pm
If all powers were devolved, there would be no need to have MPs
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