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Thread #91818   Message #1797514
Posted By: Divis Sweeney
31-Jul-06 - 07:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Sorry, yet another NI thread
Subject: RE: BS: Sorry, yet another NI thread
Morning Keith.
For example a site has been mentioned above called F.A.I.R. Now their list of innocent victims has been mentioned here.It's got a question or two hanging over it.

Anyone can stick a list or account on the net and to some it becomes gospel truth.

On the 22nd September 2002 the Armagh Gealic football team won the All Ireland football championship. As you can imagine people were delighted and celebrated on the streets. That night on the television news and several internet sites reported that republican mobs among the supporters attacked a County Armagh Police station with stones and petrol bombs and ripped down equipment. It so happened that I was present in that town and passed that station several times and saw none of this. These reports were issued by the P.S.N.I. and went out for days and the loyalist and unionist parties went on television calling republicans and the GAA everything.

I was called a liar and a republican apologist (nothing new in that)it must be true, because many had read it on the net.

Five weeks later The P.S.N.I. issued a statement saying "no damage occured to the station that day, no stones or petrol bombs were ever thrown" they made a mistake.

This is probably not the type of example your looking Keith, but it goes to show not all "Offical" accounts on the net are always right. That includes Republican sites as well I would imagine.