breaking: Gerry Adams Arrested in connection to McConville - MOD WARNING First Post

Karl Stein

bumper234 wrote: »

And terrorists knew the consequences of committing murder.

Unless they were in RUC/BA costumes which pretty much guaranteed a stay-out-of-jail pass if one of them felt like beating a couple of natives to death or shooting unarmed civilians.

MadsL

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Released.

Source?

Barely There

efb wrote: »

???? Relevance why a Gay Pride March?

Homophobic insult I'd presume.

Hardly surprising considering the poster.

Hopefully a ban is in the offing.

tomwaterford

bumper234 wrote: »

So going by your rules.

If it turns out that Adams is a murderer then he should get life in prison?

well its accepted in didn't kill the woman in question like
the punishment for all killings/attacks during the troubles is 2 years....that is the punishment so I would have no bother accepting it

there were many sentenced in the troubles to a lot longer for a lot less

Barely There wrote: »

Sorry, I don't speak Shinner and I've no idea what you're whittling on about.

she was passing info the british about the IRA...was warned...caught again...so ended up being killed for informing...not the last to be killed for it either
as the saying geos.....snithes end in ditches:(

not nice but...the sad reality of the situation

MadsL

tomwaterford wrote: »

she was passing info the british about the IRA...was warned...caught again...so ended up being killed for informing...not the last to be killed for it either
as the saying geos.....snithes end in ditches:(

not nice but...the sad reality of the situation

That OK then?

My name is URL

Barely There wrote: »

Homophobic insult I'd presume.

Hardly surprising considering the poster.

Hopefully a ban is in the offing.

Awh.. bless

Hardly surprising considering the poster.

Go on then.. explain the above.

RobbingBandit

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

what percentage of posters here actually witnessed/experienced any of the conflict in the north?

I have been refused entry to the odyssey arena back in 2005 by a security guard on account of tiny tricolour on my backpack, got let in by another security guard, was refused by a taximan outside cash converters in Belfast City Centre as the rank is/was at the time a protestant taxi rank and the drivers wont go near the falls road area, I wanted to go to the park centre, just two conflicts I have experienced amongst others over the last 10 years.

wazky

Barely There wrote: »

Homophobic insult I'd presume.

Hardly surprising considering the poster.

Hopefully a ban is in the offing.

Care to explain how it's homophobic?

tomwaterford

MadsL wrote: »

That OK then?

it was a more or less war zone like...

unfair as it is....she got one warning not to do it than most

Tramps Like Us

tomwaterford wrote: »

well its accepted in didn't kill the woman in question like
the punishment for all killings/attacks during the troubles is 2 years....that is the punishment so I would have no bother accepting it

there were many sentenced in the troubles to a lot longer for a lot less




she was passing info the british about the IRA...was warned...caught again...so ended up being killed for informing...not the last to be killed for it either
as the saying geos.....snithes end in ditches:(

not nice but...the sad reality of the situation

I agree with Adams when he says that the murder was wrong, a great injustice and shouldnt have happened. Nearly everyone does.

What I object to is the myth building which has gone around about McConville to make her into some sort of ultra pure super victim whose murder was way abover and beyond the thousands of others on all sides. Reality, especially when it comes to the troubles, is not so black and white.

Dyr

there's probably a few regualr posters who are trying to post on this thread while furiously puling the mickey offa themselves

give it a few minutes lads

Maphisto

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

In Ireland you have to be arrested to be interviewed. An arrest in itself simply means there are questions they want to put to you. It's a pretty ****ty system when you think about it. There is no way to formally interview a suspect without arresting them first. It may be the same in NI.

They are allowed to conduct a voluntary interview under caution. However I've never heard of police do that because at the first question the person does not like they can leave. That then leaves police the decision of arresting then or letting go. So its problematic if they arrest then under what grounds ....

Zonda999

Troy Lumberjack wrote: »

SF doing well in pre-election surveys...can't be having that..boosh.

Are you seriously insinuating this "arrest" by the Police Service of another jurisdiction is as a consequence of some sort of request by the Irish government to curb SF's momentum in the opinion polls?

Don't you think that would be a pretty serious affair if true?

efb

Zonda999 wrote: »

Are you seriously insinuating this "arrest" by the Police Service of another jurisdiction is as a consequence of some sort of request by the Irish government to curb SF's momentum in the opinion polls?

Don't you think that would be a pretty serious affair if true?

There are elections in the UK too

MadsL

tomwaterford wrote: »

it was a more or less war zone like...

unfair as it is....she got one warning not to do it than most

More or less?

Justified in your eyes it seems. Shooting civilian women is part of what ethics of war?

Fred Swanson

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Barely There

My name is URL wrote: »

Awh.. bless



Go on then.. explain the above.

No thanks, I'll leave it for the Mods.

Who know, you might be able to weasel you're way out of it:pac:

.jacksparrow.

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Released.

BBC Newsline are live outside the police station and the reporter hasn't mentioned that he's been released.

MadsL

Any confirmation that he has been released?

Phoebas

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Sinn Fein will never hold power in this state

Jean McConville might disagree.

tomwaterford

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

I agree with Adams when he says that the murder was wrong, a great injustice and shouldnt have happened. Nearly everyone does.

What I object to is the myth building which has gone around about McConville to make her into some sort of ultra pure super victim whose murder was way abover and beyond the thousands of others on all sides. Reality, especially when it comes to the troubles, is not so black and white.

if Gerry adams was not linked to this...there wouldn't be half the interest....there was a father of 8 I think disappeared (wrong aswell) in south Armagh as well....who even less justification was given for...don't think any was...it was an even bigger injustice IMO


it served no one to disappear these people...all should be returned

Stheno

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

what percentage of posters here actually witnessed/experienced any of the conflict in the north?

I grew up in Portlaoise with a Northern father and spent most of my childhood holidays in the North

Had plenty of experience of dealing with the conflict both in Portlaoise and in the North in the 70s/80s/90s

No news sources are reporting he's been released?

kumate_champ07

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

are we going to try and justify taking human life now are we?

why do guns exist?

tomwaterford

MadsL wrote: »

More or less?

Justified in your eyes it seems. Shooting civilian women is part of what ethics of war?

she hardly counts as a civilan if she is seeking out/passing information onto the british army (enemy in a war with the IRA)

Stained Class

Barely There wrote: »

Perfect timing for the local elections!

Great that people get a reminder of the kind of scummy murderous behaviour the Shinners/IRA got up to!

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

all of them, ye?

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

MadsL

tomwaterford wrote: »

she hardly counts as a civilan if she is seeking out/passing information onto the british army (enemy in a war with the IRA)

Justifying it then. "Collaborators will be shot" being your line. Really?

dj jarvis

Tramps Like Us wrote: »

I agree with Adams when he says that the murder was wrong, a great injustice and shouldnt have happened. Nearly everyone does.

What I object to is the myth building which has gone around about McConville to make her into some sort of ultra pure super victim whose murder was way abover and beyond the thousands of others on all sides. Reality, especially when it comes to the troubles, is not so black and white.

your post actually has me speechless

wazky

MadsL wrote: »

Justifying it then. "Collaborators will be shot" being your line. Really?

Could you tell me any other conflict where it would tolerated? Republicans could hardly imprison her.

JPA

The people out there who vote sinn fein know full well Gerry Adams is or was mixed up in all the bad **** that went down, I think his popularity and the party's cannot be affected by anything like this.

My name is URL

Barely There wrote: »

No thanks, I'll leave it for the Mods.

Who know, you might be able to weasel you're way out of it:pac:

Well I'm not banned yet.. so go right ahead.

If you have the fortitude to call someone a homophobe at least back it up in some way.


Otherwise piss off and don't reply to me any more.