Troubles legacy..

[tibilicus]

Well as if the UK tax payers didn't have to pay enough money here is the scheme put forward to the government..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/n...nd/7855035.stm

You can't seriously be telling me that government money is to be spent giving pay outs to convicted terrorists? I completely understand giving money to the innocent victims and their families but to the IRA and UDA scum who slaughtered and killed innocence? To men who would drive up the falls road at night abducting Catholics at will and then take them away to be butchered and cut into pieces? What about Omagh? Where on earth is the justice?

I find it astonishing that all this is to supposedly help put the troubles in the past, why on earth do those paramilitaries which were killed and their families deserve a single penny? Do they really deserve that money to put their mind at ease and help convince themselves that their loved one was nothing more than a low life murderer?

I'm actually bemused, and all that time Gerry Adams, a former IRA war council leader sat there in the Northern Ireland assembly smirking at the protesters.

Maybe the people who put forward this scheme should think about the insult they are causing to those families who lost loved ones to this disgusting a pointless conflict, as well as seeing that this is a deal which is on far greater terms with the Nationalist communities than it is with the unionist ones.

One word, disgusted.

[Furunculus]

agreed. the compensation money is an admission of partial responsibility by the gov't for not protecting its citizens, people who die in the act of commiting terror acts are not due compensation from anybody.

[naut]

Agreed. But Britain's a mess currently.

[Tribesman]

Since a lot of the terrorists on both sides were working for the British government then its only right that the British government should pay .

What about Omagh?

Indeed , what about Omagh ?
It isn't included , its past the cut off date and it was offerd to be included anyway but the families of the victims didn't want to accept the offer to be involved .
One thing that does piss me off is the blocking of still unstarted public inquiruies , they will continue with the two already in place but not start any of the outstanding ones .

[tibilicus]

Since a lot of the terrorists on both sides were working for the British government then its only right that the British government should pay .

pay for the victims, not the perpetrators though.

I can't think of any thing more disgusting than the shankill butchers getting a nice cash pay out or those IRA members who would abduct innocent RUC members for doing their job.

Also which terrorists do you mean were working for the British government? I know the UDA and other loyalist groups were supplied weapons from some members of the armed forces and RUC who had sympathy's with their cause but I never heard of any senior figures endorsing or supporting the two groups.

[Tribesman]

pay for the victims, not the perpetrators though.

Thats the problem with an amnesty , everyone gets a clean sheet so they are all victims now .

Also which terrorists do you mean were working for the British government?

Well if Britain says it had a couple of thousand people working inside the IRA and the IRA is a small group how many of them were not working for the British ?

I know the UDA and other loyalist groups were supplied weapons from some members of the armed forces and RUC who had sympathy's with their cause but I never heard of any senior figures endorsing or supporting the two groups.

Do you remember the little bit of trouble thatcher had with the people at GCHQ in Cheltenham ?
She changed the official secrets act to remove the public interest clause so that people working there couldn't go public again about arms shipments to the IRA .