@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch I believe in the rule of law if It is applied to all not if only applied to soldiers in practice.
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jmayle
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch You’ve gone from ‘fairness’ to ‘no one should be held accountable’.
That’s not equal justice, that’s wiping the slate clean.
If your solution to difficulty is to abandon accountability, you don’t believe in the rule of law at all.
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Nearly 30 years from the Belfast Agreement, Labour is allowing our ageing veterans to be dragged before the courts for defending Britain.
Without these men there would have been no peace process - the terrorists would have triumphed.
Starmer is betraying them.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
28 years ago today, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, one of Labour’s proudest achievements. Working in Northern Ireland, I saw first-hand the transformation peace brought to communities. At a time of global instability, it reminds us that peace must be built and protected.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch No I m saying the system is unfair to soldiers for the reasons I ve already stated so therefore there should be an amnesty. Eire gives an amnesty to Ira anyway. Amnesty for all not just Ira.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch If it is easier to obtain evidence against soldiers than terrorists there is a bias against soldiers. They are more likely to get convicted etc. That is unfairness in the system. The law will not apply equally in practice. There should be an amnesty for all to get rid this
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch That’s not my position at all.
Everyone faces the same law if there’s evidence. No carve outs.
You keep trying to twist that into ‘one side gets off’. It doesn’t.
Either you believe in equal application, or you don’t.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch Terrorists shouldn’t be held accountable, soldiers should. That is your position, we have established that.
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch No. Same law, same threshold.
Soldiers have rules of engagement. Terrorists don’t. That’s exactly why actions are tested against the law.
That’s not ‘harsher’, it’s accountability.
If there’s evidence, prosecute. If there isn’t, you can’t. Same for everyone.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch Ok so u think the British military should be treated more harshly by the law than the IRA. Glad we have established that.
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch Exactly. Professional soldiers operate under strict rules of engagement and legal standards.
That’s not a weakness, it’s the point.
If anything, it’s why their actions should stand up to scrutiny. Higher standards don’t mean immunity, they mean accountability.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch Much easier to get evidence against soldiers than terrorists because the latter operate in secret. There lies the unfairness.
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch Number of killings doesn’t determine prosecutions. Evidence does.
Each case stands on its own facts, not totals or ‘sides’.
If there’s evidence against IRA members, prosecute. Same for soldiers.
That’s fairness. Not tallying bodies to decide who faces justice.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch This should lead to far more prosecutions of the Ira than Brit soldiers because Ira killed far more people but the opposite is the case. System obviously not fair for Brit soldiers.
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch Yes. If there’s evidence, prosecute.
Same standard for Adams, same for soldiers, same for anyone.
That’s what rule of law means. Not immunity for one side or selective outrage depending on who you like.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch The law does not apply equally. It is applied disproportionally against the British army and not the terrorists. Do u want to see Adams prosecuted?
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch I don’t like Adams, but that’s irrelevant. If there’s evidence, present it and test it under the same legal standards.
That’s the point. One law, applied equally.
You don’t defend the rule of law by picking and choosing who it applies to.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch If the leader of the IRA has immunity the British army should have immunity. If one side get immunity expanding it to the other side is just.
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@jmayle4 @KemiBadenoch So your defence is ‘someone else might escape justice’? That’s not a principle, that’s deflection.
If you believe in the rule of law, it applies to everyone or it applies to no one.
You don’t fix impunity by expanding it.
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@TheFinalAudit @KemiBadenoch Gerry Adams is above the law. He will not be prosecuted for any thing.
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@KemiBadenoch You can’t claim ‘peace process’ as a blanket defence for everything that happened. That’s not law, that’s hindsight justification.
If actions were lawful, they’ll stand up to scrutiny. If they weren’t, they won’t.
Soldiers aren’t above the law. Never were.
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@PhilipDwyer_MOI The Irish emigrated across the world yet even complain about skilled immigrants.
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@Justice4the21 @GBNEWS U have no chance of getting justice. it Ll be British soldiers not terrorists brought before the courts.
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'Terrorists where given get-out-of-jail-free cards... but former British soldiers are being pursued endlessly through the courts.'
Former DUP MP Ian Paisley JNR accuses the government of rolling over to Ireland and fuelling a ‘lawfare racket’ against UK veterans.
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@Irishchutzpah @lori_elsie @NewstalkFM There was no famine, it was made up to hate the Brits and stay perpetually victims !
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“SHOCKING level of holocaust denial in Ireland” The comments on the @NewstalkFM piece on FB proves the point perfectly.
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@VonGulliver @Sarahjdublin They were not starved, they starved because the potato failed
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@SummerlandChris @LeoKearse Did Irish people joke about imposing a blockade on the UK and causing a famine and exploiting the famine for your own ends?
And Irish are not a race? Do some googling.
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Steve Coogan attacks the “racist” right while inadvertently validating their argument: that foreign heritage limits British identity.
“I am a part of the Irish diaspora, I’ve always felt...antipathy towards the British flag"
(Ironically, the Irish people I know feel very aligned with Britain. Maybe Coogan truly is British; only Brits have such disdain for their country)
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Ireland refused ALL refugees during WW2 Rabbi
Barely 500 allowed entry, perhaps 100 of them Jews (20% of total when they made up 2% of Europe’s population)
Should it have reversed its strict refugee policy towards all backgrounds, one in place before WW2 - yes, despite its awful poverty after escaping British rule
Could every nation have done more? Yes
gript.ie/antisemitism-a…
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When Ireland's Justice Minister Gerry Boland was asked in 1945 why he refused to allow 100 Jewish CHILDREN who survived the Holocaust into Ireland he said:
“Any substantial increase in our Jewish population might give rise to an anti-Semitic problem”.
Just 100. Children. Who survived the Holocaust. It was too much for him.
This week Ireland approved tens of millions of dollars to UNRWA, an organization fueling Palestinian violence and hate.
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