Bloody Sunday Inquiry: your thoughts

That's just a matter of opinion. I personally think it is stupid to riot against armed police and soldiers if you don't want to take the risk of injury or death, evidently most students disagree with that, and figure that "because it is legal" then nothing possibly bad could ever happen because that would be "mean and nasty" and mean and nasty things never happen to students.

Yes you would be very stupid to protest against hostile armed Nazi soldiers if you wished to preserve your life, if you felt like it was a cause you were willing to give up your life for that is a different matter. No you wouldn't deserve to get shot, and I don't believe I have once said that anyone deserves to die.

Don't just rephrase what you said first I already read it.

And if you're of the opinion dressing up as mohammed and dancing about is as justifable as protesting against being imprisoned without trial on hearsay, sort yourself out.

Oh OK - your wishy-washy, reactionary response to issues I had already covered led me to believe you hadn't read a word I said. I apologise.

They're both equally legal and equally stupid.

Not really.

And clearly you aren't educated on the issue - if you were you'd know the march wasnt actually legal, after they had been banned.

OK then it was definitely extremely stupid of them if it wasn't legal. If you attack a soldier you deserve to be attacked back but I assume those who died didn't actually attack anyone.

No they didn't.

All you've contributed to this thread is ignorance and your opinion that you shouldn't protest about anything, but lie down and accept being treated as a 2nd class citezen.

No you cynical pr**k, for the last 38 years there loved ones have been labeled as terrorists (whilst in fact they were ordinary people standing up for their civil rights) and they wanted to clear their names, which has been achieved. Now its time for those digusting creatures who murdered on that day to face charges.
And your lack ok knowledge of what happened on that day is overwhelming, do some unbiased research first then form an opinion. What happened was the state murdered 14 unarmed civillians with no provocation whatsoever as the saville report says.
And dont you think if there were weapons there, british soilders would have been shot dead also. If i was there and seen what happened i would have shot those state armed thugs.

The British government is pathetic, apologising to the IRA scum. We should be rounding them up and executing them, not ******* apologising

OK then it was definitely extremely stupid of them if it wasn't legal. If you attack a soldier you deserve to be attacked back but I assume those who died didn't actually attack anyone.

Martin McGuinness isn't the sort of person I'd give the benefit of the doubt to. As an ex-IRA commander, the likelyhood of him carrying a machine gun at the protest is pretty high. While things aren't always solid, you can make pretty resonably assumption from eye-witness accounts and people's past history.

Did you learn anything form the Saville Enquiry?

It was discovered that the British Army who fired the first shots, not the innocent civillians who were subsequently gunned down.

This was an unlawful march. It should not have happened and if those people had obeyed the law then they would have been sat safely at home. They chose to break the law. No-one made them do so.

They suffered the consequences of being arrogant ***** who thought that the law didn't apply to them. The IRA were and are the scum of the earth. Anyone who supports them is tarnished by the association. If you lie down with dogs then you get up with fleas or get shot if you are stupid enough to hang around where guns are being held by both sides.

Give it time and we will see exactly who is naive.

I bet the relatives had the lawyers on speed dial for as soon as the verdict was announced. But we'll see.

If they only wanted their relatives named cleared then this should be the end of the story. But I would bet my life that the next thing will be the claims for compensation.

If the relatives had any honour then any compensation should go to charity. But it won't. A load of paddies will be getting legless on Guiness and buying a nice new HDTV and having a holiday at the taxpayer's expense.

Where's the compensation and the apologies from the IRA for their victims?

Can't see what the point of the whole inquiry actual was. The people are dead and won't be coming back. Whether they were carrying weapons or weren't doesn't matter anymore - except for one reason.

Money.

Yes I know that. Butt out of the conversation, thanks. Don't just randomly make know-it-all comments when it has nothing to do with you kk.

It's a forum! I can comment on anything I like.

Wit people like you around here, its no suprise that N.Ireland will "never get over this". Oh and the IRA have apologised before, look it up.

"still a lot of terrorisim on both sides" Where the **** do you live??? Im from South Armagh, and even we dont have that much bother???

You can make comments on anything you like in real life too. That doesn't make it polite or acceptable to do so (and doesn't mean you won't look like an idiot when you say something totally irrelevant because you launched in to someone else's conversation).

Oh, sorry! I was completely unaware of the complex nature of forum etiquette!

But usually when I see something that I disagree with, I usually comment on it, whether or not I happen to be interupting some kind of dialogue.

Just saying...

None of the families have recieved any compensation from the British Government,

And when you refer to the "bastards", who are you referring to? The IRA, Republicans, Nationalists, or simply the entire Catholic community?

None have received compensation - YET

The 'bastards' include anyone who was still on the street after being told it was an illegal parade, had rubber bullets fired at them, in a crowd throwing stones at soldiers trying to maintain the law and still remained. They deserved to be shot for stupidity and a refusal to obey the law.

The fact that they were shot in the back is irrelevant, anyone who is being fired at will turn away. It doesn't make them innocent.