First - apologies for an inexcusable thread drift - my fault entirely. The only excuse I can offer is that it isn't often that I get a chance to bait a real liuve Thatcherite; nowadays they seem to keep a very low profile; it won't happen again - open a new thread.
"Britain clinging to Empire rubbish."
I think Bloody Sunday and the run up to it - plus that fact that six counties still remain under British control - is example enough of Britain clinging on to the remnants of Empire and is prepared to use force to do so.
You have - rather disgracefully, in my opinion, pushed the line that the massacre was down to a handful of soldiers; in which case, why weren't they court martialed instead of mounting an elaborate cover-up.
If this had happened, the army and the government would have been exonerated on the spot and would not have been brought to the present humiliating climb down.
You agree that it is unlikely that anybody will be tried for the events - why - are these soldiers guilty of criminal acts?
Jim Carroll