Why In Hells Name Are Newspapers Even Printing This Crap

[dieseldick]

is it any wonder the people of NI cannot move on when all we get from the media is a constant reminder of the troubles. i say " so effing what , get over it "
to bloody sunday enqyuiries and other enquiries from loyalists " get to f*** over it " and move on.

sorry for the language but....grrrrrrrr this makes my blood boil.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/archive/events/the-troubles-gallery-40-years-of-conflict-in-northern-ireland-from-the-belfast-telegraph-archives-29947576.html



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[woofgang]

Were you there or involved in it? If not you have no right to an opinion.

[Baldric]

If I remember rightly DD is from Belfast.

[douglas9401]

Be a funny old world if a person had to experience something first hand to earn the right to have an opinion on it, woofgang.

[dieseldick]

bit personal woofgang.

[dieseldick]

and yes i was. like many people from belfast, many were directly hurt ,killed or spent most of their lives in prison, many peoples family members were killed or jailed also. i dont think i know too many people who werent effected personally or who had family affected by the troubles, and that is people from both sides of course.

so the media doesnt need to throw this s*** in our faces just to make a storyline.

[Islay]

Its not printing a few pictures that are preventing the people of NI moving on, its electing terrorists to run the government that's preventing them moving on.

[Islay]

Oh and the fact that RIRA, PIRA and a few others are still running things!!

[dieseldick]

that is also true and i totally agree with you. the point i am making is the media shouldnt be glorifying the troubles just to sell papers. they know the ghouls love to revel in the past and it sells papers.

[Islay]

They are not glorifying it at all imo, those pictures need to be shown so that children of today do not fall into the same trap.

There is still a hope that children that are being brought up in these households will see these and not go down the same route as their parents.

If you don't show pictures like this then you would not show pictures of hiroshoma or Vietnam, ypre, berlin etc etc

[dieseldick]

and you live here ,do you ?

[Islay]

I did for over 15 years!

[hc4361]

You haven't forgotten that Belfast is part of the UK, have you, Diesel?

In fact you don't need to be British to have an opinion on the so-called Troubles.

[dieseldick]

h4c thats true to an extent , though i have lived and breathed the troubles , wasted half my life in prison ,i still have mates in jail who wont be out for many many more years when theyll be very old men . numerous lucky escapes and near misses from car bombs to bullets through my doors and windows. and then you look back and think ,for what ? im on the right side of the law now, well i do try. but i dont care if there is a united ireland or not now , i see the bigger threat which is the growth of radical islam, not so much here in NI but it will come surely if we dont wake up ,pull together and grow a set. catholic and protestant on both sides.

so , for me ? i would rather forget the whole lot. easy for some idiot fool of a reporter born and bread with a silver spoon to manipulate the people and sell news. no point in going back in time. in 1998 both sides issued statements to say " lets move on " but what a farce that has turned out to be. clowns.

[jno]

you want to forget the past, so everybody should be forced to do the same?

[ichkeria]

It's a fascinating historical archive. Part of our troubled heritage and also instructive.
I fail to see how it prevents us 'moving on'. If we move on we should do so not blindly, but with an eye to the past.

[birdie1971]

woofgang - "Were you there or involved in it? If not you have no right to an opinion."

Really? DD has no right to an opinion about it unless he was directly involved in it?

Please tell me your post was a joke? For if it was not, it is quite the most ridiculous thing I have read in many a year. Following your logic, the vast majority of people in this country would not be able to have nor be able to voice an opinion on any conflict being conducted by any foreign nation anywhere in the world.

[sandyRoe]

DD, did your mates who are still in prison commit their crimes after the Good Friday Agreement came into effect?

[dieseldick]

u fishing sandyroe ?

[dieseldick]

It's a fascinating historical archive. Part of our troubled heritage and also instructive.
I fail to see how it prevents us 'moving on'. If we move on we should do so not blindly, but with an eye to the past.

we dont need an eye to the past, its embedded in our minds and only the worst nightmares are etched in our minds. what good does it do anyone to look back.

[dieseldick]

only the replublicans who look at the past with a sense of romanticism that their dead died heroes and martyrs.

and i ask myself ....for what ?