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About LinkBacksMy god they're letting 12 year olds from 1991 join now.Originally Posted by BodyofEvidence
Go talk to someone else.
My god they're letting 12 year olds from 1991 join now.
Go talk to someone else.
Amazing comeback!Provos and guns eh? Old habits die hard.
Why aren't you in Iraq with the scumbags you're supporting?
Today we have a new generation of young people, who cannot remember the Hunger Strikes, or indeed the Troubles at their worst, their only knowledge of the events which continue to shape their lives are second hand stories.
Until now the only knowledge of these events is what was written by the participants themselves or their apologists. It is the duty of our community to instruct our young people, to disabuse them of the myths and lies they have heard, to instill them with an accurate and understandable history, and one which they can take pride in.
In short our mission is the truth well told.
Fianna Fail will allow the Irish People, to me milked like Milch Cows, by the CIF through high house prices, rents, and land prices, at the expense of competitiveness,and quality of life. FF+CIF=1
Tell one and all , tell those that will listen but the fact of the matter is that most people have not a clue nor do they care. I'm in my 40's , and I could not give a shiat just what print about the troubles. I lived in England for most of it. My brothers and sisters lived in Dublin so were immune. they are in their 20's and in uni. They have not a care in the world. The troubles are just something you read about in books.
By telling the real Truth about the Hunger Strikers we hope to undo much of the damage done by these events and their subsequent and recent glorification. We hope to break the cycle of violence created by the terrorism. All terrorist groups use the death of their members as a method of recruiting more.
The more romantic, controversial and incredible the deaths the more value to the terrorist. Often those killed or taking their own lives were as in
the case of the Hunger Strikers, were mere cannon fodder. useful fools either impressionable or inept and of no value in an of themselves to the organisation.
It was only in death that they became more than they could in life. The terrorist propagandists and apologists then create a new identity for such unfortunates, one where they were the purest, best and bravest. their deeds were the boldest and their sacrifice the most exemplary.
In this account men like Bobby Sands are not drawn as criminals, arsonists and terrorists but rather poets and freedom
fighters, ideologues who lived and breathed Republicanism
Fianna Fail will allow the Irish People, to me milked like Milch Cows, by the CIF through high house prices, rents, and land prices, at the expense of competitiveness,and quality of life. FF+CIF=1
just what was Bobby Sands in prison for........?
Never mind.
In October of that year, Sands was arrested and charged with possession of four handguns which were found in the house in which he was staying. In April 1973 he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment
Who they? You? I remember the 80's. and the 70's. But, heres the thing, I dont fetish them (well, apart from Debbie Harry...).My god they're letting 12 year olds from 1991 join now.
Go talk to someone else.
You seem angry. Maybe take a glass of wine, lie down, sleep and wake up in today-land,. not the 1980's....
I daresay we're not in any danger of forgetting them. Much as we might try.Remember the Hunger-Strikers
"Unless you are an absolute pacifist, then you acknowledge that there are times when taking up arms is appropriate."
- cactusflower
Those people that goes through the hunger strike are now riping the fruit of the strike now aren't they ?
It wont be too long when you're right or wrong!
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