Ronan Kerr RIP

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As some of you may be aware, the 25 year old police officer Ronan Kerr was laid to rest today. It's a sad reminder of the outdated cause that those who don't wish to integrate into a modern society will continue to fight.

Ronan Kerr was killed 400 meters from my mother's home. He went to my school and I recognised him as soon as I saw the picture. I have a cousin who wants to join the PSNI and will in all likelyhood not now do so. As a new father it angers me that the place I would like to take my daughter to visit and spend her holidays has been hit by such a tragedy for a second time. When will these people let the past go :(
 
Indeed, a sad reminder that there are still mindless morons who wish to drag us back to the dark days of the past.

Rip.
 
You echo the sentiments of the vast majority of people. It is sad day not only because of the loss of a young man just doing his job but also because some bad people choose not to lay the past behind them. I think acts such as these just make the people stronger in their resolve not to go back to that grim past.

RIP Ronan Kerr :(
 
After the Sapper murders. The Carroll murder. The police officers that had their legs amputated after surviving car bombings. The ambushes against PSNI out responding to calls from the community. The bombing campaign that nearly killed three kids in Lurgan and the various car bombs they've left lying around the place.... you'd think they'd realise they have no support except the smallest mindless minority.
 
Castiel said:
I will never understand the mentality that creates this kind of sectarian violence in NI.
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Never underestimate the foul poison that is nationalism even in it's most trivial of light hearted joking form. It ultimately leads to the validation of untold brutality committed against our fellow man, whether it be one person or one million. That we still live in an age with nationalism being common place the world over, as much in the developed world as the 3rd. Even with people proud to call themselves nationalists, in whatever guise it may take is just a tragic overhanging shadow of the misgivings of the past injecting pointless misery into the present.
 
I'm angry and disgusted at this murder and my thoughts are with his family.

It’s wonderfully sick the way some ‘Republicans’ think that the people who murdered this Officer are totally different from the people who murdered Officers just like him, who wore the same uniform. They excuse their sickness by saying that this current lot have no mandate, that they don’t have support and that they’re not the same.

The same animals who planted bombs at a poppy day service killing old people? The same animals who opened fire on an off-duty soldier’s car with his baby in the back. Maybe the same scum who abducted Catholic men from their homes, holding their children at gunpoint, while they were made drive bombs into ‘legitimate targets’ - Or the good old boys who abducted Catholics from country roads and buried them in ditches, their families never knowing, some of them still not knowing.

Truth is that we’re being made swallow a lie and it’s not only these scum ‘republicans’ who are feeding us this lie. The IRA is the IRA, the rats who murdered and destroyed so much innocent life a few years ago are the same rats who are killing today. The very same mindset, training, weapons, ethos and methods are being used, because the truth is they never really went away you know. These Sinn Fein-IRA rats attending the funeral of this dead Officer is sickening in the extreme. I feel the crap we’re being fed has really stepped up a gear and most of what has come after this whole tragic event is being stage-managed in the background as a ‘lets all hold hands with the old IRA” production.

The people in my country, both Catholic and Protestant, should not be sucked into the thought of accepting Sinn Fein-IRA as anything other than the murdering Rats that they are. SF-IRA are currently being permitted to rewrite their legacy of hate and murder, the hate and slaughtering of men, women and children and this is just wrong.

Take this BBC story if you will - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12969360

"I was 14 years old. I remember that day and everything from it as though it was yesterday. "Mr McGuinness was quoted as saying that Ms Travers' death was regrettable but understandable because her father was a member of the British judiciary."

"Anne Travers said she had been visiting her sister's grave with her mother at the weekend, when she heard the news of Mr Kerr's murder. "I thought, how ironic. Mary was 23, he was 25. Nothing has changed. My sister has died. Thank goodness we have got a peace where fewer people are being murdered. "But they have never once said sorry for my sister's murder. They have never once apologised to my mum. "I am delighted that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have condemned this young man's murder. But they have never once said sorry for my sister's murder... in fact, Martin McGuinness condoned it"
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Says it all about the Sinn Fein-IRA murder machine and their 'Ireland of Equals'
 
Oh dear. I would post a "lol" but I feel it would be inappropriate given the original subject of the thread.

It may be a matter of generations, but eventually this prehistoric breed will die out. We can only hope that the damage in the meantime can be kept to a minimum. The sad thing is that inevitably more families will suffer.
 
Scuzi said:
It may be a matter of generations, but eventually this prehistoric breed will die out. We can only hope that the damage in the meantime can be kept to a minimum. The sad thing is that inevitably more families will suffer.
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Agreed, there will always be those on both sides over here who will try to drag things backwards. Emphasis on both sides, as neither, be they republican/nationalist, loyalist/unionist can claim any moral high ground on the events of the past.
 
Not going to get into a discussion with sickboy as it wouldnt be appropriate in this thread. But the way he directs that post shows the problems with the thinking in N.I with one side blaming the other.

No one wants this. That is correct, The number of people out showing there respect all over N.Ireland today shows this.

But it will take years to change some peoples mindsets, And as scuzi says we can only hope the damage is kept to a minimum until this happens.
 
OldCoals said:
I am puzzled as to who still thinks it is a good idea to have physical barriers between communities.
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This is one major problem, especially in the larger towns/cities. My sister went to university in scotland, whilst there she became good friends with a girl from the shankhill in belfast. This girl told her that she had probably only known a handful of catholics in her entire life.
 
setter said:
Indeed, a sad reminder that there are still mindless morons who wish to drag us back to the dark days of the past.

Rip.
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Agree mostly, but i wouldn't call them mindless, there is a deep maleovance within them. Mindless creatures are never so cold and calculating.

Good result on the arms find, and hopefully his death will cause a wave of revulsion that actually lets those who know report what they know.
 
cheets64 said:
Probably a bunch to young uns, wanting to live up to the old era, out of work, nothing better to do.
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To some degree, but there are older and more experienced members among their ranks. They have skilled bomb makers and marksmen. I know it feels wrong to give them too much "credit" but one of the biggest mistakes that the British armed forces made consistently throughout the troubles was underestimating the capability of the various paramilitary forces.
 
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