Dennis the Menace and Beryl the Peril next door.

You are mistaken

Allira

Blowing up innocent people is never right.

It's wonderful to look back as some of you do with rose-tinted spectacles.
Some of us knew the reality.

Well my spectacles aren't very rose coloured. Say I did like a drink and occasionally went to an Irish Republican club would this officer have been OK deciding I was an IRA plant? How far would it have gone? Could I have gone to prison? Innocent people did go to prison so I suppose it is a possibility.

I don't know how far it did go, apparently investigations were made but was that me being followed (God they'd have been bored) or look at my family background? I suppose the family Orange Order links would have made it less likely I was an IRA plant but who knows.

Blowing up innocent people is never right.

It's wonderful to look back as some of you do with rose-tinted spectacles.
Some of us knew the reality.

LizzieDrip

^One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist^

Precisely eazybee.

Or in my case just mistaken identity.

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist

Precisely eazybee.

Doodledog

Worrying ‘ if true’? So you don’t know the detail either but are happy to post in defence of someone in despair at the HRA being applied?

Double standards?

We shouldn't forget the innocent people who were locked up as terrorists, some just because they were Irish. I remember it all well as I was working for the police at the time, one officer told my friend he thought I was an IRA plant, he swore he'd seen me in Irish Republican clubs. My friend couldn't stop laughing, I had two young children and was doing a part time degree as well as a fulltime job and I was teetotal and didn't go in local bars let alone Irish Republican Clubs, I'm not sure were I'd have found the time to be honest.

There he was, an anti-terrorist officer prepared to spread that misinformation. I did mention that my granddad and his family would be mighty miffed if they had to attend the next Orange Lodge meeting with an IRA member in the family. I wonder if they'd have got kicked out although to be honest me being locked up was a bigger worry for me.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Human Rights? I don't think terrorists can be called human.

I rest my case.

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I don’t think my comment was a ‘cheap dig’.
Starmer is a Human Rights lawyer through and through. I suppose we ought not to expect anything less from him because of that.
However, as our Prime Minister, I expected different.

Compensation for the blood scandal victims perhaps.
The Post Office employees?

Gerry Adam’s?
Get to the back of the queue boy. You (ought to have) a very long wait.

Keep up FGT. Compensation was made to the first blood scandal victims in December, and to PO victims interim compensation can be claimed while the individual compensation is resolved.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67942935

Ghandi was a freedom fighter

FGT source is ALWAYS the Telegraph haha!! Totally deluded but clearly happy to remain ignorant

At the time of his arrest and trial. mandela was a terrorist.

There’s a queue of others far more deserving of compensation which Labour seems to be slow in paying. Postmasters, recipients of infected blood …

I dislike Gerry Adams. I don’t want my money used to compensate him. But a Court considered his appeal and confirmed he was illegally detained twice
So he is entitled to compensation. Starmer is doing as the Court recommended

There’s a fine line between being a freedom fighter and a terrorist. The ANC certainly committed acts of terrorism. He said himself that he was no saint.

Mandela was imprisoned as a terrorist

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Human Rights? I don't think terrorists can be called human.

But they are - that is the fearful fact that we all have to live with.

So partly in support of human rights

Human Rights? I don't think terrorists can be called human.

Worrying ‘ if true’? So you don’t know the detail either but are happy to post in defence of someone in despair at the HRA being applied?

Double standards?

Anniebach

FGT you have big problems with anyone supporting human rights ?

I support the human rights of people, including children, to be able to go about their business in the UK without fear of being blown up by terrorists.

I don’t know enough about the detail to comment further, but think that using this to make another cheap dig at the government is pretty low

So you don't know but it may seem you are using this to have yet another cheap dig at FriedGreenTomatoes2?

Its worrying if true and needs further investigation.

Compensation for the blood scandal victims perhaps.
The Post Office employees?

Yes, there is a long queue in front of compensation for terrorists.

FGT you have big problems with anyone supporting human rights ?

A very long wait hopefully or maybe he won’t have the brass neck to apply for it.🤬
Another strange move by Starmer.

I don’t think my comment was a ‘cheap dig’.
Starmer is a Human Rights lawyer through and through. I suppose we ought not to expect anything less from him because of that.
However, as our Prime Minister, I expected different.

Compensation for the blood scandal victims perhaps.
The Post Office employees?

Gerry Adam’s?
Get to the back of the queue boy. You (ought to have) a very long wait.