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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well I never expect the IRA to decommission entirely, just its mortars, sniper rifles, semtex etc. I know they'll hang onto their handguns and armalites to conduct their filthy business.

    Indeed, all the footage they show of weapons is of big rifles and such, things that arent exactly useful if your a drug dealer.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    They could buy more - but destroying those they got would show they were serious about the peace process. You have to ask why they want to keep guns if they are fully committed to peaceful politics.

    They want to keep their areas in control.

    What about loyalist paramilitaries weapons, they've guns too.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Shogun wrote:
    They want to keep their areas in control.

    What about loyalist paramilitaries weapons, they've guns too.

    No argument from me - they're murdering thugs as well.

    And whilst we're at it I'd love to see atime when the police don't have to carry weapons and the army is returned to barracks.

    I've no problem with the gun being taken out of Irish politics. I do have a problem with the armalite and the ballot box strategy.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    hmm...i could wirte a book on it but basically, here's the lowdown, 800 years ago, brits moved to ireland for first time, got control of lands, after a while, protestants form scotland and england settled in ireland, mainly ulster, catholics persecuted all the while, republicans had rebellions throughtout centuries but none by organisations, by 1900's, Socialists like James Connoly and Padraig Pearse organised themselves into group to remove British Imperialism, caled IRB, had rising in 1916, IRA formed after rising, fought british government for new irish state, got part independence, IRA sorta died out, came back during 50's, then during Civil Rights marches of 1968-69, the IRA got dragged into struggle as catholics were still being persecuted, from then on, it became a struggle for independence from the british state. here's a good site

    http://cain.ulst.ac.uk

    Sorry to nitpick, it's just I'm writing my dissertation on the Irish Civil War at the mo, and just to say, Pearse wasn't a socialist, and Connolly wasn't a member of the IRB. The main reason for the IRA's disapperance was their defeat in the Civil War, and thus it's amalgamation into the army of the Free State.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Please note "turlough" comes from a strong IRA supporting area and USED to have smypathy for the organisation,he has lost all respect due to his drug taking
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Actually Tim, the IRA openly allowed internation inspectors to check out their Arms dumps and reported back what all there was and they could tell the stuff wasnt being used
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ,he has lost all respect due to his drug taking
    he has the respect of many people on these boards ...me for one.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    he has the respect of many people on these boards ...me for one.

    cheers boss :thumb:

    you_only_live_once how can you expect me to support an organisaiton which abuses it's community rather than protect it (it's original purpose) people don't want that shit these days...we wanna move on and it's more than just drug use but i suposse it helped me get over the illusion of politics here.

    p.s.hangover on monday :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Please note "turlough" comes from a strong IRA supporting area and USED to have smypathy for the organisation,he has lost all respect due to his drug taking

    he has put across articulate and well constructed points not only in this thread but in many others...you on the other hand have just made the most ludicrous of logical jumps and exposed your view as being ill-founded, bigotted and nonsensical
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bashir, I know him far better than you thats it
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bashir, I know him far better than you thats it

    i dont give a fuck if you're his best mat or long lost brother, how the hell are we supposed to know in what context you mean what you are saying if you're posting it on a public board...

    tbh there werent many other ways in which that could be read, how are we supposed to know who does and doesnt know each other on this board?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i dont give a fuck if you're his best mat or long lost brother, how the hell are we supposed to know in what context you mean what you are saying if you're posting it on a public board...

    tbh there werent many other ways in which that could be read, how are we supposed to know who does and doesnt know each other on this board?

    he's actually my cousin...but yes you couldn't have known that and the only way to interpret what someone says is what they say and he did say something stupid and arrogant but tbh i didn't expect more from him.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    arrrgghhhh.....how many of you bastards are there? :D

    you know EVERYONE...its like the mafia...or ...the MURPHYA :D

    i personally think you should all have to declare yourselves :yes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    arrrgghhhh.....how many of you bastards are there? :D

    you know EVERYONE...its like the mafia...or ...the MURPHYA :D

    i personally think you should all have to declare yourselves :yes:

    :lol: nah it's just me,you only live once,shogun and that boy steviemilne who live round this part of the country...i do have contacts though.....
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Please note "turlough" comes from a strong IRA supporting area and USED to have smypathy for the organisation,he has lost all respect due to his drug taking

    How much do they respect grasses these days, your supposed to be family, :rolleyes: What was wrong did he not buy them from the local 'IRA' hardman or something.

    Never met Turlough but I'll respect him a million times over that cowardly scum. Can tell you'll make a good IRA supporter, right into attacking your own aren't you? :yes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    He was also arrested and taken to a police station for making terreroist related death threats to a unionist activist in the area..lol sorry Turlough
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    He was also arrested and taken to a police station for making terreroist related death threats to a unionist activist in the area..lol sorry Turlough

    what an exageration of what happened "terrorist related" :rolleyes: ...being 13 at the time i didn't know no better and why mention it...is there any point...what you gettin at?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    hell, i've got videos on my phone of me pretending to be Bin Laden, sending video messages to my mates letting them know i was coming back to work :D

    good time had by all....
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Every country has it's gangsters but in Northern Ireland the gangsters justify it by saying they're doing it for a cause. :rolleyes:

    Funny thing is the politicians could learn a thing or 2 from them, the provos and the black necks have been happily dividing business for years between themselves.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    He was also arrested and taken to a police station for making terreroist related death threats to a unionist activist in the area..lol sorry Turlough

    you would be good at politics, you can't seem to come up with good arguments so you go right into smearing people. how noble :yeees:

    on lighter note I once had the cops called on me because the principal at my school found a scrap of paper which had the ingredients to dynamite and my signature on it. the golden part was the ingredients came from a video they made us watch in chem. class
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    turlough wrote:
    i do have contacts though.....

    I just burst out laughing when I read that :lol:
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