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Thread #81050 Message #1482046
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
10-May-05 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: Victims of the Birmingham bombing
Subject: RE: Victims of the Birmingham bombing
Guest 10.02,
Ever heard of irony? I could have said the b******s stitched 'em up, but I don't fancy being knee deep in speeding tickets.
I don't have a problem with the word innocent, but I don't know whether they WERE innocent, and neither, I suspect, do you.
The injustice was in manufacturing evidence to convict them, which leaves a doubt which might otherwise not have existed, and which cannot now be removed unless the real culprits are found, or decide to make an eventual deathbed confession. For that reason the six ARE innocent in law, and rightly so.
As to your other comment, you might have done better to use the excellent facilities of this forum to look at some of my posts to other threads. Had you done so you would know that this "Brit bigot" can boast several hundred years of pure Irish ancestry on both father's and mother's side, and just happens to be the first of his family to be born in England.
As you chose to post anonymously, I don't have the option to find out anything about your antecedents, so I will refrain from ill informed speculation, while reserving the right to hold an opinion (unexpressed) about same.