Rue Bobby Sands

roverstillidie wrote: Landon, you don't strike me as a man who would go to prison or take personal risks for your beliefs. Unless they change the bus timetable or something

Once RTID takes his Shamrock blinkers off, he is a top, top poster!

roverstillidie wrote: Landon, you don't strike me as a man who would go to prison or take personal risks for your beliefs. Unless they change the bus timetable or something

roverstillidie wrote: Landon, you don't strike me as a man who would go to prison or take personal risks for your beliefs. Unless they change the bus timetable or something

Well I was going to add something along those lines but you know how aggressive people get when you speak ill of the rah


Edited by Landon Donovan - 16 Jun 2014 at 12:37pm

Landon, you don't strike me as a man who would go to prison or take personal risks for your beliefs. Unless they change the bus timetable or something

Tb, there is simply no way you don't know the difference between criminals and political prisoners in an Irish context. Even the Brits made and still make that distinction. Why do you think republicans have their own wings in prison, not have to work, get to bring in food etc?

Tippbiffo wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: Tippbiffo wrote: I ask a question tonight that may relate to republician ideology and the aggressive responses that it got did not surprise me. I am *not* a republican by any stretch but to call IRA prisoners "criminals" displays either a lack of even basic knowledge or a deliberate desire to provoke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulsterisation Quote: "'Criminalisation' was meant to avoid any acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict and was partly motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war to that of a campaign against criminal gangs." It was a well known tactic and I can't help but think your description of the hunger strikers as criminals rather than prisoners or another appellation was deliberate. You can correct me if your innocence was genuine but I have a feeling it was not. I can assure you my intentions are genuine

No problem. It's probably best to call them prisoners hence forth though, rather than criminals.

My knowledge of the area is relatively limited and I won't get into the substantive details of it because I don't know the answer to your original question but I just thought the use of the word criminals wasn't the best choice.

SuperDave84 wrote: Tippbiffo wrote: I ask a question tonight that may relate to republician ideology and the aggressive responses that it got did not surprise me. I am *not* a republican by any stretch but to call IRA prisoners "criminals" displays either a lack of even basic knowledge or a deliberate desire to provoke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulsterisation Quote: "'Criminalisation' was meant to avoid any acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict and was partly motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war to that of a campaign against criminal gangs." It was a well known tactic and I can't help but think your description of the hunger strikers as criminals rather than prisoners or another appellation was deliberate. You can correct me if your innocence was genuine but I have a feeling it was not.

I can assure you my intentions are genuine

Sweet merciful f**k! I really hope you are sterile

Tippbiffo wrote: I ask a question tonight that may relate to republician ideology and the aggressive responses that it got did not surprise me.

I am *not* a republican by any stretch but to call IRA prisoners "criminals" displays either a lack of even basic knowledge or a deliberate desire to provoke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulsterisation

Quote: "'Criminalisation' was meant to avoid any acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict and was partly motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war to that of a campaign against criminal gangs."

It was a well known tactic and I can't help but think your description of the hunger strikers as criminals rather than prisoners or another appellation was deliberate. You can correct me if your innocence was genuine but I have a feeling it was not.