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Thread #133984   Message #3599736
Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Feb-14 - 08:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
"No British conscientious objectors were ever executed.
Once again you are wrong and I am right."
Sixteen concientious objectors from Richmond in Yorkshire were held in Richmond Prison and eventually transferred to Belgium to serve at the front.
They refused to fight and were all executed by firing squad because they had been transferred from civil to military jurisdiction.
The interview with the relative of one of them - filmed in the prison in which they were held), formed a major part of the second programme.
What ***** planet do you live on?
say again - "Once again you are wrong and I am right" - dipstick.
"I have only made 3 claims in this discussion, and I do not lie."
You cannot expunge your idiocy because you said it on another thread - you have made statements on every issue I listed and more - all part of your jingoistic programme (DENY THAT????)
The rest is irrelevant crap put up to divert away from your idiocy
Nobody, certainly not me, has ever denied the necessity to fight - having been plunged into an Imperialist war by an unprepared and arrogant Government who believed the Empire invincible, the people were given no alternative but to fight.
The inept behaviour of the powers that be not only sent them in poorly armed and untrained, but lied to them about the reasons they were fighting.
Instead of securing the home front first (as any responsible military authority would have done) they shipped off equipment and personnel for coastal defences, believing it would be a quick affair ("Over by Christmas") leaving the East coast insufficiently protected.
They didn't wake up until after the retreat at Mons and the Scarborough blitz
The wonderful "leadership" betrayed those fighting and those at home.
Now go and re-read your obviously recently acquired (to camera) script again - you moron, and stop trying to score points.
" I am fallible after all Jim"
You most certainly are - but drop the "after all, - arrogant pratt - on second thought, don't - it underlines your claims to "infallibility".
Jim Carroll