Senator Edward Kennedy has died...

DrDee said:
I'm British and I care very much about this, just because your small minded ignorance stop you from caring about the world now it globalisation has occurred doesn't mean we all don't care.

Your argument is foolish and you are an idiot.
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So not wanting to honour someone who is anti-British, pro-IRA and helped fund the IRA, and who is responsible for a young woman's death in a car accident he failed to report until the next day because he was drunk, makes me an idiot? No, I don't think so.
 
The Kennedy family have and always will be in the headlines irrespective of what people think of them.

I am not a fan of Edward Kennedy for reasons that are my own. Some will grieve and some will be indifferent.
 
Have they mentioned his slightly dodgy past yet? A past which includes the death of an innocent young girl and the fact that he legged it from the crash to save face rather than saving her, and also didn;t even think about phoning the emergency services until she'd been found dead.
 
Azagoth said:
Have they mentioned his slightly dodgy past yet? A past which includes the death of an innocent young girl and the fact that he legged it from the crash to save face rather than saving her, and also didn;t even think about phoning the emergency services until she'd been found dead.
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Everyone is saying as he admitted he was guilty for leaving the scene of an accident, he's OK in their books.
 
i read my local paper today stating that a cow was rescued from a hole it fell into!

thats a lot better news then this ****** dying tbh!
 
Murf said:
He doesn't need your sympathy, he's dead..........
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If the Americans are looking for Sympathy it’s between Suicide and Syphilis in a dictionary.

I had mates killed and wounded in Northern Ireland in the 1970's with weapons bought by funds raised in America following Ted Kennedy's speeches.

I won't mourn him one little bit!
 
dirtydog said:
This is a man who gave support to the IRA, he was no lover of Britain or our interests.
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This is not true at all. Kennedy supported the SDLP throughout the 70s and 80s. He only pushed for Sinn Fein officials to be given visas to enter the US in the 90s at the behest of John Hume, who correctly predicted that bringing SF in from the cold would lead to a ceasefire. Kennedy was opposed to violent Republicanism and often said so (e.g. the 1977 St Patrick's Day statement that he issued with three other Irish-American politicians that denounced North American supporters of the IRA, including Noraid). Kennedy did support Irish nationalism, but you will not be able to find a single quote from him that proves he supported the Republicans.
 
Just puttin' the info out there in case anyone reading who hasn't already made their mind up actually thinks Kennedy did support the IRA.

Kennedy in the summer issue of Foreign Policy in 1973:

"The violence and terror must be ended. I condemn the brutality in Northern Ireland. I condemn the violence of the IRA...I condemn the flow of arms or any funds for arms from the United States or any other country to Northern Ireland."

And before someone asks how I know that, I wrote my dissertation on American involvement in the NI peace process.
 
On the radio on the way home it said that he called for any Protestants in Northern Ireland who couldn't accept rule from Dublin should go back to Britain! People like DD are regularly labelled racist here for saying the same thing about British Muslims. Just a thought like.
 
TJM said:
Just puttin' the info out there in case anyone reading who hasn't already made their mind up actually thinks Kennedy did support the IRA.

Kennedy in the summer issue of Foreign Policy in 1973:

"The violence and terror must be ended. I condemn the brutality in Northern Ireland. I condemn the violence of the IRA...I condemn the flow of arms or any funds for arms from the United States or any other country to Northern Ireland."

And before someone asks how I know that, I wrote my dissertation on American involvement in the NI peace process.
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Why do you think so many people have got it wrong then?
 
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