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JahManRed wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

My dad saw some kids getting shot to death in N.Ire cause they blew through a checkpoint.

My dad was working on a building site in Belfast in the 70s. Two guys run into a tin shed and are quickly surrounded by blacked out SAS types who riddle the shed with gun fire. Took the bodies away and set of a charge in the shed. Never made the news,

Some of the stuff that never made the news back in those days would probably shock a lot of people in mainland Britain.

Sounds like quite alot of you live in Northern Ireland by the sounds of things. Or at least used to.

My stance on the whole thing is, re-unite Ireland. Protestant/Catholic. Who cares, they're both Jesus fanboys at the end of the day.

Last edited by Mek-Stizzle (2008-07-03 05:47:07)

Mek-Stizzle wrote:

Sounds like quite allot of you live in Northern Ireland by the sounds of things. Or at least used to.

My stance on the whole thing is, re-unite Ireland. Protestant/Catholic. Who cares, they're both Jesus fanboys at the end of the day.

Yeah that allways made me laugh. Most of the idiots who were involved who I know/knew didn't even believe in god yet in their eyes they were engaged in some kind or religious war. They are people with hate in their hearts.
The people I know/knew who were involved who were just ordinary ppl with jobs, children etc was never a religious thing. It was turned into that by the idiots. It was a nationalist versus Unionist problem. A question of nationality. In Ireland's long struggle with the British the Protestant and Catholic Irish men both fought the British.
The current problem is because our Planters see themselves as British. And even the thought of being labeled Irish or from the Island of Ireland makes the ill. Well hello.........you live on the Island of Ireland. Britain is next door,

Braddock wrote:

JahManRed wrote:

Mek-Stizzle wrote:

Sounds like quite allot of you live in Northern Ireland by the sounds of things. Or at least used to.

My stance on the whole thing is, re-unite Ireland. Protestant/Catholic. Who cares, they're both Jesus fanboys at the end of the day.

Yeah that allways made me laugh. Most of the idiots who were involved who I know/knew didn't even believe in god yet in their eyes they were engaged in some kind or religious war. They are people with hate in their hearts.
The people I know/knew who were involved who were just ordinary ppl with jobs, children etc was never a religious thing. It was turned into that by the idiots. It was a nationalist versus Unionist problem. A question of nationality. In Ireland's long struggle with the British the Protestant and Catholic Irish men both fought the British.
The current problem is because our Planters see themselves as British. And even the thought of being labeled Irish or from the Island of Ireland makes the ill. Well hello.........you live on the Island of Ireland. Britain is next door,

Exactly...religion was only ever a handy way of distinguishing who was on each side. It was never a defining factor for the struggle.

So did you ever figure out what was happening or did you just go get drunk?

Thorax wrote:

Braddock wrote:

JahManRed wrote:

Yeah that allways made me laugh. Most of the idiots who were involved who I know/knew didn't even believe in god yet in their eyes they were engaged in some kind or religious war. They are people with hate in their hearts.
The people I know/knew who were involved who were just ordinary ppl with jobs, children etc was never a religious thing. It was turned into that by the idiots. It was a nationalist versus Unionist problem. A question of nationality. In Ireland's long struggle with the British the Protestant and Catholic Irish men both fought the British.
The current problem is because our Planters see themselves as British. And even the thought of being labeled Irish or from the Island of Ireland makes the ill. Well hello.........you live on the Island of Ireland. Britain is next door,

Exactly...religion was only ever a handy way of distinguishing who was on each side. It was never a defining factor for the struggle.

So did you ever figure out what was happening or did you just go get drunk?

Nothing showed up on the news...didn't get drunk but I'll probably get drunk tomorrow night to celebrate US independence day. Thanks for asking btw, I knew deep down you cared.