PSNI Officer Shot by Loyalist terrorists

[Inishowen]

As for your second "point", given the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Loyalists jailed over the years by the RUC and of late by the PSNI,it's just too silly to warrant a reply.

[i]Are you on drugs? The number of loyalists jailed over the years pales into insignificance when compared to the numbers of nationalists jailed.

How many times were loyalist areas raided by the army/RUC for weapons and explosives? Virtually never is the answer you are looking for.

Many of the loyalist thugs were/are in the same OO lodges as RUC/PSNI members. Still think they went after the loyalists? Dope.[/i][/quote]

Hang on, I was on a tour of Long Kesh not so long ago and both the official guide and the ex-prisoner told us there were always more loyalists in the jail than republicans. Anyone got hard facts on this??

[PAUL MEYER]

first of all

isnt it about time for the loyalists to disarm their british standard army issue SA80's and all the other weapons theyve got stockpiled???

also why are they shooting RUC.... sorry.. PSNI officers in the first place?? thats like shooting one of your own?

There are, to the best of my knowledge, no SA80/L85A1/L85A2 rifles in civilian hands in the UK. They have not been offered for sale on the civilian market and only a relatively small number have been exported for use by an overseas force. Neither have any significant quantities been stolen or are otherwise unaccounted for. What you occasionally see our Loyalist friends posing with are replica weapons freely available on the internet, just Google "SA80 replica" or "Airsoft weapons" and all will be revealed!

As for your second "point", given the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Loyalists jailed over the years by the RUC and of late by the PSNI,it's just too silly to warrant a reply.

Are you on drugs? The number of loyalists jailed over the years pales into insignificance when compared to the numbers of nationalists jailed.

How many times were loyalist areas raided by the army/RUC for weapons and explosives? Virtually never is the answer you are looking for.

Many of the loyalist thugs were/are in the same OO lodges as RUC/PSNI members. Still think they went after the loyalists? Dope.

Are you on drugs? The number of loyalists jailed over the years pales into insignificance when compared to the numbers of nationalists jailed.

No I'm not on drugs but judging from the hysterical tone of your response to my post I suggest a course of Prozac would be in order, for you. Anyway, perhaps you could furnish us with the correct figures for Loyalists imprisoned during the course of the NI campaign. I don't have them to hand myself but I have no doubt that they are in the thousands. A casual observer would think from looking at the biographies of most of the leading figures in Loyalism that every loyalist in the province spent at least some time behind bars.

How many times were loyalist areas raided by the army/RUC for weapons and explosives? Virtually never is the answer you are looking for.

Actually I would suggest that "Virtually never" is the answer you are looking for. I have no idea how many times Loyalist areas were searched (though I do recall taking part in a search in the Black Mountain Parade area in 1974 during which my search team found a large quantity of small arms ammo!) but then again the Loyalist terrorists did not pose the same level of threat to the Police and Army as the PIRA and other republican organisation did, the main threat to peace and stability in Northern Irealns was PIRA which was based in nationalist areas, hence the undoubtedly highed degree of police and Army activity there, presumably you didn't realise that?

Many of the loyalist thugs were/are in the same OO lodges as RUC/PSNI members. Still think they went after the loyalists? Dope.

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Another sweeping generalisation, so what? Gary Glitter was amember of the Groucho Club, does that make Chris Evans a paedophile? To answer your rather dim question though, we went after the Loyalists to the extent that their activities warranted it given that we were somewhat distracted by the Provisonal IRA and others of that ilk. [/i]

[i]Oh, and before I forget, you're a cretin.

[dunviller]

As for your second "point", given the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Loyalists jailed over the years by the RUC and of late by the PSNI,it's just too silly to warrant a reply.

[i]Are you on drugs? The number of loyalists jailed over the years pales into insignificance when compared to the numbers of nationalists jailed.

How many times were loyalist areas raided by the army/RUC for weapons and explosives? Virtually never is the answer you are looking for.

Many of the loyalist thugs were/are in the same OO lodges as RUC/PSNI members. Still think they went after the loyalists? Dope.[/i]

Hang on, I was on a tour of Long Kesh not so long ago and both the official guide and the ex-prisoner told us there were always more loyalists in the jail than republicans. Anyone got hard facts on this??[/quote]


Which side yo on??!!

[Jason]

whats a side got to with it?

[dunviller]

whats a side got to with it?

Who's aside?