Thread: Has Northern Ireland left the past behind?

Originally Posted by clagan

no offence but what would someone from california and a teenage scottish bhoy know about growing up in the troubles in the occupied 6 counties?

tarring and feathering was a necessary evil. the RUC didnt police our communities so the RA did. joyriders, hoods and thieves were publicly disgraced and it soon stopped them from harming their own community again

We know right from wrong Clagan. Or do you guys have a monopoly on that ?

Tarring and feathering a pregnant woman is the lowest of the low, absolutely barbaric. And it's carried out by people who have no authority, and no accountability, to dish out the punishments they decide upon. What happens when the wrong person is tarred and feathered ? What happens when those who have appointed themselves as judge and jury transgress ?

Originally Posted by Martin

We know right from wrong Clagan. Or do you guys have a monopoly on that ?

Tarring and feathering a pregnant woman is the lowest of the low, absolutely barbaric. And it's carried out by people who have no authority, and no accountability, to dish out the punishments they decide upon. What happens when the wrong person is tarred and feathered ? What happens when those who have appointed themselves as judge and jury transgress ?

We all know right from wrong, but given the circumstances who knows how you would behave. This was a community under attack who had to defend itself.I think you have to have been there to fully understand why these actions took place

Originally Posted by Wrigley

We all know right from wrong, but given the circumstances who knows how you would behave. This was a community under attack who had to defend itself.I think you have to have been there to fully understand why these actions took place

And how exactly is tarring and feathering a pregnant Irish woman defending themselves ?

Republicans, rightly, are appalled at British abuse of Irish people. But it's ok for Republicans to do it ?

Originally Posted by Martin

And how exactly is tarring and feathering a pregnant Irish woman defending themselves ?

Republicans, rightly, are appalled at British abuse of Irish people. But it's ok for Republicans to do it ?

like I said you needed to have been there to understand why

And who is the authority? "Whoever has the strongest muscle".

Interesting line in the article.

Originally Posted by RK

Yes.

Even worse than I initially thought:

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Listening to the crackly tape recording of a woman speaking in the early 1970s, the fear and indignation in her voice rings out as she describes how her sister was taken away by the IRA and tarred and feathered.

Walls of silence

"They had tins of paint and bags of feathers, she\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s five months pregnant and her husband\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s in Armagh prison, there\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s nothing anyone can do," she said.

Her crime was refusing to store ammunition for the IRA in her home.

Do you honestly think a pregnant woman should be subject to that kind of hunnish treatment simply because she refuses to store arms in her house?




I fail to see the point you’re making.

Shocking stuff tbh. The IRA abused their power in the community plenty of times, this is one example.

Dont be letting on to the uber chuckys on here though, they still think the sun shines out of the ra's hole.

Originally Posted by Martin

And how exactly is tarring and feathering a pregnant Irish woman defending themselves ?

Republicans, rightly, are appalled at British abuse of Irish people. But it's ok for Republicans to do it ?

I completely agree. I think this is absolutley disgusting and barbaric bunch of fucking animals who done that to that woman. Did her un-born child deserve that to.

I could understand why people would be extremeley pissed off with what happened but to lower yourself to a dark ages mob is disgusting.

Could you imagine this was the other way around a woman from a loyalist community falls in love with an IRA man and she met the same faith what would be your reaction then? I could bet for a fact it wouldnt be the same.
Its nazi/hun like behaviour

Originally Posted by Buzzbhoy

I completely agree. I think this is absolutley disgusting and barbaric bunch of fucking animals who done that to that woman. Did her un-born child deserve that to.

I could understand why people would be extremeley pissed off with what happened but to lower yourself to a dark ages mob is disgusting.

Could you imagine this was the other way around a woman from a loyalist community falls in love with an IRA man and she met the same faith what would be your reaction then? I could bet for a fact it wouldnt be the same.
Its nazi/hun like behaviour

Buzzbhoy I can't tell you how much I respect your posts on this type of subject. Likewise for MC and RK. All of you are proud Irish Republicans but you refuse to condone behaviour, supposedly in the name of Republicanism, which we would all condemn if it was being perpetrated by Brits.

Fair play to you all for that.

Originally Posted by Hoopymo

That's fucking sickening, many of you would condemn this as barbaric if it was in pakistan or the middle east but when it's the IRA suddenly it's ok.

Hoops it aint OK, it was what had to be done 35 years ago. like I said you had to be there to understand, none of us in 2009 GB, can understand what it was like back then. just think how desperate must they have been to do those things

Originally Posted by Hoopymo

And what exactly did tarring this woman and child accomplish?

Desperation is no excuse, this was not needed and had fuck all to do with "freeing the irish" rather than abusing innocent people.

you just dont know, but then again you wouldn't. not that that is your fault

Everyone should re read the thread. No one condoned the pregnant girl getting it. It was the one who was whoaring herself to a Brit, who a few of us thought deserved it.

Originally Posted by Ghod

drug dealers deserve to be tarred and feathered and set on fire

Even the ones that are in the IRA. What about bank robbers, smugglers. or is that crime that is allowed

Originally Posted by Max Raptor

What!? In what circumstances could tarring and feathering a pregnant woman be necessary?

It didn't "have to be done" at all!

Stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family is what needs to be done, not severely punishing innocent people.

Anyone- whether there or not, can see that.

which bit of " you had to be there to understand " don't you get, you can not compare your life in 2009 Britain to 1970s North of Ireland

Originally Posted by Max Raptor

Ok, please tell me how the circumstances in the 70s required a pregnant woman to be tarred and feathered?

That line is an absolute cop out Wrigley. Nonsense.

well just imagine how desperate you would need to be to do it