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Thread #158525   Message #3751539
Posted By: Teribus
17-Nov-15 - 06:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Loved this bit of nonsense from Raggy:

"I can think of two good reasons why reports of summary executions cannot be found. From the soldiers view they wouldn't want the next-of-kin to be presented with the "fact" that their son/brother/father/husband was a "coward". From the Army's viewpoint they wouldn't want it to be acknowledged officially that they responded in that manner. They certainly wouldn't write it in their official reports thus YOU can't find an example of such."

Ah so your best friend gets shot out of hand right in front of your eyes and you and all his other mates just stand there and do nothing - the first thing in your mind as the highest priority is We can't tell his Mum she will be upset!!!! - f**kin' laughable. If you yourselves did not immediately kill the officer who shot your mate, you would have shouted about the incident to any beggar with a pair of ears to listen, the one thing you most certainly would not do is keep quiet about it.

On to the second of your reasons - Just a little bit of information for you - neither an Officer or an NCO can so much as strike a Private Soldier because that is an offence under military law so please, please,please explain to me exactly how it came about that all of a sudden Officers would be permitted to shoot troops under their command, and if such behaviour was indeed sanctioned by the Army Council and High Command why would the Army have any qualms about such instances appearing in official reports - have you any idea what is meant by logic, reason and commonsense? I ask as you appear to be sadly lacking in all three.