Gerry Adams in Court

[Forest Hillbilly]

Gerry Adams in court, being held accountable for IRA atrocities. This is interesting because Adams has always denied being in the IRA, though obviously has some connections, purely on the information he's historically been privvy to.

Gerry Adams: IRA bomb victims' civil court case begins in London

The men are seeking a ruling that Adams is personally liable for decisions to plant car bombs in London and Manchester in 1973 and 1996.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is a civil case, so the threshold for a conviction is lower than a criminal case. Scheduled for 7 days, so a verdict is still a few weeks away. The big question is: was he a member of the IRA, or not ?

Adams and Martin McGuinness were up to their eyeballs in information from the IRA. Mc Guinness definitely was involved. Will there be enough hearsay and circumstantial evidence to find him guilty ? I think there might be

 

[georgenorman]

Of course he was - along with McGuiness. They would have sanctioned all of the major atrocities.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Great atrocities were committed by both sides. So you either grant a pardon to all the belligerents or you crucify all of them ?
tit-for-tat point-scoring has never achieved anything. Republicans need to stop baying for the blood of the soldiers who pulled the trigger on Bloody Sunday....cos they were only following orders. And the feckers ordering the violence ? either from the Falls Road or Downing Street......we must give them a pass and move on. As did the Western Allies to the German nation in 1946 ( but not Josef Stalin).

Northern Ireland must not be a permanent Israel/Palestine Balkan peninsula type sh1.tshow - with the violence flaring up again and again over hundreds of years. The 95% of peaceful people need to shut out the 5% men of violence, on both sides. Gerry Adams is a dinosaur-monster, as was King Rat Billy Wright.

Politicians are often murderous. Gerry and all the other ones, including my hero Margaret Thatcher.

"War is old men talking and young men dying" Homer

Gerry Adams & Margaret Thatcher. I would grant both of them an amnesty for their murderous potshots at each other. But i would send both of them to the International Court at the Hague for their respective treatments of their own people.

 

[georgenorman]

Great atrocities were committed by both sides. So you either grant a pardon to all the belligerents or you crucify all of them ?
tit-for-tat point-scoring has never achieved anything. Republicans need to stop baying for the blood of the soldiers who pulled the trigger on Bloody Sunday....cos they were only following orders. And the feckers ordering the violence ? either from the Falls Road or Downing Street......we must give them a pass and move on. As did the Western Allies to the German nation in 1946 ( but not Josef Stalin).

Northern Ireland must not be a permanent Israel/Palestine Balkan peninsula type sh1.tshow - with the violence flaring up again and again over hundreds of years. The 95% of peaceful people need to shut out the 5% men of violence, on both sides. Gerry Adams is a dinosaur-monster, as was King Rat Billy Wright.

Politicians are often murderous. Gerry and all the other ones, including my hero Margaret Thatcher.

"War is old men talking and young men dying" Homer

Gerry Adams & Margaret Thatcher. I would grant both of them an amnesty for their murderous potshots at each other. But i would send both of them to the International Court at the Hague for their respective treatments of their own people.

Absurd to compare Thatcher to Adams.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Absurd to compare Thatcher to Adams.

true cos Wee Jarry never sank a shipful of men which was sailing away from the battlefield.

And also Thatcher never insisted on the Palestine Flag flying over Belfast City Hall.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Absurd to compare Thatcher to Adams.

Ulster needed a peacemaker, a negotiator, a calm hand at the tiller. Thatcher inflamed tensions and made everything worse.

It was clear how bad Thatcher was when Blair got to power. Even John Major was a far less aggressive Conservative/Unionist than Maggie.

Without the support of Unionist politicians, Thatcher would have been ejected from 10 Downing Street. And she knew it.

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Anyhoo............Wee Jarry. A looney leftie he is also. He ran Sinn Fein as his own private fiefdom. Upon leaving the Party , Jarry was the longest-standing party leader of all the parties in all of Europe. A veritable unsackable Saddam Hussein. Even Tony Soprano was answerable to the New York bosses. Wee Jarry was the unsackable boss of an unsackable Political Party. In many parts of Ulster, voters would vote for a SF candidate even if they were utterly dire.
Cos most of his own people were scared sh1.tless of him ? I certainly wouldnt dispute the ownership of a parking space with Mr Adams.

 

[Eagleman13]

true cos Wee Jarry never sank a shipful of was sailing away from the battlefield.

And also Thatcher never insisted on the Palestine Flag flying over Belfast City Hall.

Awful degrading comment, yet again from you. How dare you belittle all our fallen comrades who, like myself, were involved in the Falklands on board, HMS Sheffield, who was NOT, repeat NOT sailing away, we were defending the Hermes.

People like you, only read things in the media. Shame on you & your bias.

 

[georgenorman]

true cos Wee Jarry never sank a shipful of men which was sailing away from the battlefield.

And also Thatcher never insisted on the Palestine Flag flying over Belfast City Hall.

Our elected government authorised the sinking of an enemy warship during a war. Adams and his fellow terrorists blew up men, women and children who had nothing whatsover to do with any battlefield.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Awful degrading comment, yet again from you. How dare you belittle all our fallen comrades who, like myself, were involved in the Falklands on board, HMS Sheffield, who was NOT, repeat NOT sailing away, we were defending the Hermes.

i fully condemn the attack on the HMS Sheffield. And all the loss of life therein.

People like you, only read things in the media. Shame on you & your bias.

it was the General Belgrano i was referring to mate. Sunk by Thatcher even though it was a) outside the exclusion zone and b) sailing away from the Falklands.
Maybe you should speak to some of the families of the deceased before you throw your shame around ?

 

[Eagleman13]

i fully condemn the attack on the HMS Sheffield. And all the loss of life therein.


it was the General Belgrano i was referring to mate. Sunk by Thatcher even though it was a) outside the exclusion zone and b) sailing away from the Falklands.
Maybe you should speak to some of the families of the deceased before you throw your shame around ?

Maybe you need to as well before spouting biased bollox of which you know NOTHING about. We're you there? I, was.

Awful poster, ignore button incoming.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Adams and his fellow terrorists blew up men, women and children who had nothing whatsover to do with any battlefield.

"Three children were killed during the 1920 Bloody Sunday at Croke Park, Dublin, when British forces fired on the crowd: Jerome O’Leary (10), William "Perry" Robinson (11), and John William "Billy" Scott (14). In the 1972 Derry Bloody Sunday, multiple teenagers aged 17 were among the 13 killed"


Two wrongs don't make a right Eagle. Quote me where i ever supported or justified the scumbag that is Gerry Adams.

 

[Eagleman13]

BTW, PV, Thatcher NEVER sank the Bellgrano, HMS Conquerer did on orders from the Admiralty.

Get ya facts right ya bias . . . . .

 

[PalazioVecchio]

BTW, PV, Thatcher NEVER sank the Bellgrano, HMS Conquerer did on orders from the Admiralty.

Get ya facts right ya bias . . . . .

sure thing Eagle

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Maybe you need to as well before spouting biased bollox of which you know NOTHING about. We're you there? I, was.

wearing a military uniform, i assume ?
The Falklands is nothing more than a military outpost, a flagpost for a Oil grab....on the other side of the World. British Empire, not that dissimilar to that of Darth Vader. You've even got the same voices in the control-room. Peter Cushing would equally work for 'The Dark Side' or for The Admiralty. Commanding a Death Star or a Dreadnought.

The Treaty of Versailles gave birth to the scumbag that was Hitler. The two tier apartheid Statelet that was N.I. of 1965 gave birth to scumbags like Gerry Adams. So you need to own it mate - the behaviour of the French occupying troops in the Rhineland or the behaviour of the Parashoot regiment in (London)Derry.

Accusing me of not knowing what i am talking about is a bit rich. What does the word 'Derry' mean ? etymologically, without Google i would imagine you to be as stumped as you are for place-names around Hong Kong.

me Biased ? I did condemn Gerry Adams. Did you atone for Oliver Cromwell ? A Josef Stalin/Hitler in all but name.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Biased ? i have frequently, on here, shown sympathy to the Unionist cause. Especially in 2026 when they are rapidly losing electoral superiority. I have also frequently rejected a United Ireland and have forgotten more N.I. history than you have probably ever got from wikipedia. I fully condemn the provisional IRA and the UVF in equal measure.....which sounds a lot less biased than your lines above.

There was badness and wrong on both sides of The Troubles. And not many heroes or goodies. The irony today is that many Catholics are not even Catholic anymore. And many Loyalists to the Crown have little love for this King (or his brother).

 

[georgenorman]

i fully condemn the attack on the HMS Sheffield. And all the loss of life therein.


it was the General Belgrano i was referring to mate. Sunk by Thatcher even though it was a) outside the exclusion zone and b) sailing away from the Falklands.
Maybe you should speak to some of the families of the deceased before you throw your shame around ?

Where was it going - on a leisure cruise?

 

[georgenorman]

"Three children were killed during the 1920 Bloody Sunday at Croke Park, Dublin, when British forces fired on the crowd: Jerome O’Leary (10), William "Perry" Robinson (11), and John William "Billy" Scott (14). In the 1972 Derry Bloody Sunday, multiple teenagers aged 17 were among the 13 killed"


Two wrongs don't make a right Eagle. Quote me where i ever supported or justified the scumbag that is Gerry Adams.

Bloody Sunday was a reaction to a riot - very badly handled, yes, of course.
IRA bombings were cold-bloodedly planned and carried out in the full knowledge that innocent people would be killed and maimed.

 

[Stirlingsays]

Bloody Sunday was a reaction to a riot - very badly handled, yes, of course.
IRA bombings were cold-bloodedly planned and carried out in the full knowledge that innocent people would be killed and maimed.

Using military in a policing role has often ended up like this.

My brother did two tours in NI and before he went, both times the officers would show the troops what the IRA had done to soldiers to remind them that they were entering a zone where a percent of the population wanted to kill them if they could.

In another country bloody Sunday would have been far worse.

People in that rioting crowd wanted to hurt those soldiers and some of the soldiers reacted badly......However, when people talk to me about innocent people I remember years later what that Irish crowd did to those two soldiers in the car who had taken a wrong turn.....Who the IRA scum tortured and executed.

 

[Stirlingsays]

McGuinness became a double agent.

Both Adams and McGuinness were part of the IRA, the differences between the military wing and political did exist, but those two headed the political but were part of both.

 

[Stirlingsays]

What Oliver Cromwell did in Ireland was terrible.

The only thing I can say.....I wouldn't say it was in his defence.....but the only thing I'll say is that they regarded Ireland as a part of Britain and Cromwell ruthlessly beat down his opponents in England as well....chopped the king's head off. He wasn't one for empathy.

As for the Falklands.....that's fecking ours.....Ours to keep and if we give it away....ours to give away.

An invasion was met with force....which included the Irish.

Heroes died over there.

Back when this was a country with leaders proud of its history.

Now our rulers are sellouts, both in Britain and Ireland.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Now our rulers are sellouts, both in Britain and Ireland.

most leaders seem to want division and conflict in N.I.

The collective outrage with the so-called Far Right from Eire made common cause with Belfast Loyalists....to collectively throw sh1.t at Antifa/Sinn Fein......there was uproar from both Dublin and London Governments & tv companies.