UK soldiers to face prosecution for war crimes

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Evangelion said:
Translation: 'My ex-girlfriend once bought a silver triskele necklace from a hippy shop in Cardiff.'
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I think this is my favourite post of the thread, and considering 30% of the posts read like a Dan Brown novel, and a further 5% seem to relate to a pond made entirely of ****e, that's saying something.

I am Celtic, because jewellery.
I am Maori, because tattoo.
The entirety of the GB military is comprised of devil worshiping rapists, because internetz.
 
N17 said:
Made yourself look daft there, do you know whom the celts are?
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They're a people who were wiped out by or absorbed in to roman culture.
About 1800 years ago.

Or people who are somewhat delusional and believe they belong to an extinct race in an attempt to feel special and unique.
 
N17 said:
Made yourself look daft there, do you know whom the celts are?
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Given your previous accuracy in this thread I'm going to guess you don't, You will however present a very revisionist, essentially new age description as fact.

Heres a brief explanation by a Gaelic scholar and Askhistorian Mod - depanneur

When people talk about things Celtic, they're usually conflating a material culture and language family into one cultural package. In reality, Celtic speakers were not required to use the associated material culture, like in Iberia, while the material culture could be used by non-Celtic speakers, which was the case in a large part of Central Europe.

It's still a contentious issue but I don't think that many Celticists would use the term 'Celtic' or 'Celt' without some sort of qualification. I'd say that there is still a use for the term, but it should only really be applied to speakers of a Celtic language regardless of their political or cultural status. Think of it like the term 'Germanic' - you could use it to refer to speakers of Danish, Old Norse, Crimean Gothic, Frankish or African-American Vernacular English, but it has no political or cultural associations beyond that.

There's actually an interesting dynamic in the Celticist world of academia: there are many people in Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Scotland who unreservedly stand by the pan-Celtic identity. Of course it's a completely modern identity with no basis in the historical past, but it's in some ways integral to how these people conceive of themselves as Irish, Welsh, Scottish etc. The contention arises when these kinds of people interact with Celticists, because they naturally take an interest in 'Celtic' history.

As I've said, most Celticists have done away with the unifying Celtic concept, and often clash with modern day self-identifying Celts who peek their heads in to glean some historical basis for their identity, only to find that the scholars committed to its study deny its existence. It's a really interesting phenomenon where the study of history/archaeology intersects with/comes into conflict with contemporary issues of identity, but in a context that isn't very racialized or colonial - these are often scholars of British or Irish heritage interacting with other people of Irish or British extraction. I'm actually planning on presenting a paper at a Celtic Studies conference that's open to the public in the winter and have to prepare in advance to handle potential 'Celts' upset with my Balkanization of the Celtic peoples (my argument is largely contingent on the uniqueness of Irish politics and society when compared to somewhere like Gaul or Britain).........

The problem is that they didn't really share any distinct cultural sphere. In medieval Ireland, Celtic speaking Britons and Picts were seen as foreigners in the same way they viewed Saxons or Franks. There was simply no concept of a unified Celtic culture until it was invented in the modern period. I think your argument is predicated on a notion of Celtic speakers and culture expanding aggressively into the periphery that is simply untrue. The Celtic languages and material cultures spread by cultural diffusion through trade and contact rather than wholesale invasions with some exceptions.
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N17 said:
https://www.facebook.com/laith.shubeilat/videos/10153889078604749/
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No rape there, no execution there despite your claims. Illegal techniques... sure. I presume he has offered up his evidence to a court of law so he can be put on trial? How do you reconcile the fact that by far the worst treatment of detainees's was by local (indigenous) forces btw?

In related news.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-being-struck-off-over-Iraq-abuse-claims.html

Lawyers behind hundreds of legal claims alleging abuses by British troops face the prospect of being struck off over the shredding of a key document at the centre of a £31 million public inquiry.

Leigh Day, one of Britain’s leading human rights law firms, is facing disciplinary action in the wake of an inquiry into claims British troops had tortured and murdered Iraqi detainees.

During the inquiry it emerged that a key, hand-written document, which had the potential to stop the costly legal proceedings in their tracks, had been destroyed.
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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) now recommended that lawyers at Leigh Day face a full hearing by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, which has the sanction to strike off solicitors or order unlimited fines.

The case against another law firm Public Iinterest Lawyers (PIL) remains ongoing, according to the SRA. Both firms deny any wrongdoing.
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The SRA refuses to say what the allegations are but Leigh Day - in its denial of wrongdoing - said it was being accused of a number of disciplinary breaches which included the failure to spot the significance of the shredded detainee list; improperly holding a press conference to demand a public inquiry; entering into a ‘prohibited’ fee sharing arrangement with PIL; and that it had “in some way been touting for clients”.
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why don't you actually say what youre linking to????

I'm a bit wary of watching a vid when the description is in arabic, so are all the comments and I don't think facebook counts as a solid source of facts either.
 
Boycey0211 said:
I'm a bit wary of watching a vid when the description is in arabic, so are all the comments and I don't think facebook counts as a solid source of facts either.
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It was a soldier who thought manhandling a few civilians was the worst thing ever, before calling for some kind of Marxist utopia and then pretending that these countries wouldn't burn us if they had the chance.
Que loud applause from the tinfoil hippy audience.
The Arabic was just them laughing at us for being so gullible and that they were looking forward to our forced conversion to Islam.
 
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