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Thread #52146 Message #798431
Posted By: Ireland
07-Oct-02 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
Subject: RE: BS: NI Police raid Sinn Fein offices, homes
Ard. I did not say that you get shot,I live here also, I went to many areas were punishment shootings were carried out.I have seen people who have spoke out left with permanent limps. I take no sides what so ever, in-fact I want an United Ireland but not at any cost. I think it is stupid being involved in a country and being unable to have any real say about our future.
SF has let us down badly, sooner or later people would have seen that they are not the two headed monsters most think they are and realised they do have something to offer.
Now as an ex-soldier I have to ask if the security of people like me,is taken into consideration from the view point of SF. This fiasco does not fill me with confidence that we have people willing to go forward for mutual benefit.
The majority of the names on the documents were of prison officers, if you knew the amount of midnight flits I took part in, after lives were threatened you'd understand why people are worried and feel let down by SF.
Not one person has condemned this from that perspective, that says to me that the worries of security force members are not worth thinking about. SF needs to make their peace in that respect and offer the real peace they talk about to all.
You will never get me to argue against the condemnation of any violence linked to terrorists, it's wrong unproductive and keeps us apart, so they are doing us no favours.