Possibly why those demostrating on Bloody Sunday thought to hell with this non violence stuff im joining the Pira and then served some instant Karma to those same paras at Warrenpoint

This is what always springs to mind when the term "freedom fighters" is used with reference the IRA. They were every bit as much a bunch of crooks as freedom fighters. The royalists paramilitaries were no different either.

You can't be a head of state, and take all the luxuries that the role brings with it, and not take the responsibilities that it brings.

One of those responsibilities is that the British Forces are HER forces and do their work in her name.....If some of their work is killing innocents, who are protesting about the injustice that HER government is imposing on them, then I'm afraid she is a very legitimate target.

So you reckon that a figurehead with no actual political power is directly comparable to someone who either plants bombs that kill innocents or directly orders that to be done with the specific intention of killing innocents?

Your moral compass is buggered.

Yes I do.....Rather than exposing my moral compass, it probably highlights the absurd idea of a posh bird living in a palace, supposedly ruling a country??

Surely you can't enjoy the luxury of being head of the Armed Forces, without bearing some responsibility for their occasional barbaric actions??

Do you understand the difference between a toothless figurehead and an actual policy/decision maker? And you do understand the Queen doesn't 'rule' the country, even 'supposedly'?

But, carry on referring to people "legitimate targets", it clearly helps you feel 'right-on' about what was nothing more than cold-blooded murder, very often of civilians, by gangs of criminals over a few decades. Many Provos and certainly most of the 'Real' simply used the Troubles as a means of gaining criminal power, that's the truth of it. Just have a look at who runs most of the drugs and other criminal gangs in NI these days.

Sorry, but I can't look at McGuinness without seeing a murdering b4stard. Yes, the British carried out some questionable acts and made mistakes, but at least they learned from their mistakes and introduced rules of engagement. In the meantime your hero was still planting bombs and killing men, women and children in town centres. A fine role model.

I'm not blind to the cause of the Republicans but to legitimise their methods is laughable. What he's achieved as a politician is positive but as a paramilitary leader he was nothing but a murderer, and that's why I find his involvement distasteful.

Nice language BTW! Even using your own source of information you can see the majority of civilians killed in the troubles were by Loyalist paramilitaries. They also accounted for twice as many of their own as they did Republican paramilitaries and even a smattering of British security forces. Hardly sustainable was it?

The reason that the army were there in the first place was to protect the Catholics from loyalist gangs, you could say they were the real start of the troubles. Also the UVF and UFF weren't as well organised or as well equiped as the Provos due to not having thousands of plastic paddy yanks and a certain, recently deceased African dictator proping them up.

Look - I realise that you're just trying to be 'edgy' and 'cool' but stop and think about what you're posting. Then have a word with yourself.

Deary me.

It only works one way with Republicans, just think of the stink they still kick up about Loughgall.