From: Steve Terry on

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote in message
news:1iggo3n.1x6r74o1870948N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet...
> Retired <retired(a)bprivacy.com> wrote:
>
>> "Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote:
>> > Retired <retired(a)bprivacy.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>>
>> > Anyway, Sinn Fein is/was the /political/ wing of the IRA and it was the
>> > IRA that handled the killing.
>> >
>> So if the BNP form a British Liberation Army, it'll be OK for them to
>> murder
>> and maim, leaving the BNP to become the respectable face?
>
> So you decided to ignore the bit where I explained that I abhor the
> tactics of the IRA? And you decided to ignore the bit where I
> explained that, unlike BNP scum, the Irish had a legitimate grievance
> back in the 1960s and 1970s?
>
> (British rule was then causing harm to the RC part of the population of
> NI - although the matter is centuries old and hence more than a little
> complicated so not particularly `the fault of the British government of
> the day').
>
Quite right the British troops should have stayed out of it, and let the
UDF, etc. keep on killing Catholics.

For once i agree with you

Steve Terry


From: Mrcheerful on
dennis(a)home wrote:
> "Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6KCTj.20024$yD2.15349(a)text.news.virginmedia.com...
>> Rowland McDonnell wrote:
>>> PeterT <peterthomas8899(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> But how will the other members be able to criticise him if they
>>>> don't listen to whatever it is he has to say?
>>>
>>> Easy: he's the BNP rep. They criticise him because he's the
>>> represenative of a party of racist scumbags, and the only way to
>>> deal with that sort is shut them out, shut them up, and then
>>> flatten them.
>>
>> Which dictator said those words? What about free speech? The
>> powers that be always try to silence any opposition by fair means or
>> foul !
>
> Been through this in the seventies while at uni..
> had a meeting where the NF wanted to talk..
> told them no, so they invoked free speech and called for a vote..
> we voted for free speech and to let them talk and then left the
> meeting.. everyone but the NF members left so they could have their
> free speech. Its a right to free speech not a right to make people
> listen to cr(a)p.

so why invoke violence? peace is the way.