| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted 13:41 - Oct 23 with 877 views | Zx1988 |
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I appreciate that it's an incredibly high bar to prove criminal guilt, but this feels a bit of a whitewash nonetheless.
For the soldier to claim that he was "sure he discharged his duty" but to refuse to answer questions on the basis that he "no longer had any reliable recollection of events" gives me one hell of an itchy chin. |  |
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| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 14:11 - Oct 23 with 807 views | BlueBadger |
Congratulations on your forthcoming ten pager and commiserations for its forthcoming removal. [Post edited 23 Oct 2025 14:25]
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| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:10 - Oct 23 with 701 views | Zx1988 |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 14:11 - Oct 23 by BlueBadger |
Congratulations on your forthcoming ten pager and commiserations for its forthcoming removal. [Post edited 23 Oct 2025 14:25]
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And then there's his former comrade-in-arms, who refused to testify by all but saying "Soldier F may not have murdered anyone, but there's a jolly good chance that I did, so I'll be keeping schtum.". | |
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| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:27 - Oct 23 with 659 views | mellowblue |
Well we have already whitewashed the whole of the Provisional IRA , Sinn Fein INLA etc, so why not whitewash the British Army who were doing an incredibly difficult job. | | | |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:50 - Oct 23 with 593 views | BlueBadger |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:27 - Oct 23 by mellowblue |
Well we have already whitewashed the whole of the Provisional IRA , Sinn Fein INLA etc, so why not whitewash the British Army who were doing an incredibly difficult job. |
Have we though? | |
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| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:53 - Oct 23 with 588 views | mellowblue |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:50 - Oct 23 by BlueBadger |
Have we though? |
Haven't we ? Not sure we are actively pursuing anybody. Would be interested to know. | | | |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:54 - Oct 23 with 588 views | Zx1988 |
| Bloody Sunday soldier acquitted on 15:27 - Oct 23 by mellowblue |
Well we have already whitewashed the whole of the Provisional IRA , Sinn Fein INLA etc, so why not whitewash the British Army who were doing an incredibly difficult job. |
As difficult as the job may have been, I would argue that it's not that difficult not to shoot unarmed civilians (as per the findings of the Saville Enquiry).
To lift one particularly-damning section from the Wikipedia entry:
"One former paratrooper testified that a lieutenant told them the night before Bloody Sunday: "Let's teach these b*ggers a lesson – we want some kills tomorrow". He did not see anyone with a weapon nor hear any explosions, and said some fellow soldiers were thrilled and were shooting out of bravado or frustration. The paratrooper said several soldiers "fired their own personal supply of dum-dums", which were banned, and that one "fired 10 dum-dums into the crowd but as he still had his official quota he got away with saying he never fired a shot". Furthermore, the paratrooper said his original statement to the Widgery Inquiry was torn up and replaced by one "bearing no relation with fact"." | |
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