THOSE FAMOUS THICK TYRONE PEOPLE.....
Here's ANOTHER instance of just how "thick" some people are from County Tyrone...in the news as I write;
"Two fire bombs have been found in a baby-changing room in a fast food outlet. The incendiary devices - one of which had partially exploded - were found in a McDonald's restaurant in Cookstown, County Tyrone. Police Inspector Sue Steen said the people who had left the devices in the room has shown "a callous disregard for human life".
"That room was in a restaurant used by families and children," she said. "It doesn't bear thinking about what might have happened if the restaurant had been filled with people, or someone was in the room with a baby when they went off," she said.
Oh yes it does, because it is events like this that characterised the IRA's bloody decades long campaign and now they sit preening in government to the general approval of many. Had these bombs gone off, and kids had died, on what basis can those who support the appeasement of the IRA condemn this latest bunch of republican terrorists? Either all terrorism is wrong and all terrorists must be castigated or else terrorism is acceptable.
David Vance
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yes I'm all for terrorist castration
David
Either all terrorism is wrong and all terrorists must be castigated or else terrorism is acceptable.
Do you not accept the possibility that people can change their view? It is quite clear to me that the vast majority of Irish republicans believe that armed struggle is wrong today.
You say they can't believe it was wrong today and right ten years ago and broadly I agree with you. The obvious conclusion is that it was wrong then too.
That is a debate we need to have but exclusion from the institutions which you advocate will neither help isolate the physical force tradition today or help people face up to the past.
In fact your policy is effectively the same as the dissidents. To start the war again and this time to win.
You're both wrong.