EVIL STALKED THE EARTH….
By ATWadmin On January 6th, 2007I wanted to commend THIS POST over on What Need of Further Lies to you.
It recounts the awful events that took place on 6th January 1976 to sixteen mill workers in Glenanne.
I have vivid recall of the aftermath of this massacre. One of those defenceless men machine gunned to death for the heinous crime of being Protestant had been my Sunday School teacher at the time, a gentle and Christian man. His wife had died years previously of cancer, and so he was bringing up his two kids by himself. They became orphans that night.
No one was ever convicted of this mass murder. 31 years later, the guilty remain at liberty and the Republican movement to which they belonged now seeks to sit in Government. Revolting.
Well done to Hanson for the sombre remembrance.
I agree David and hopefully we get the truth about the six men murdered in separate gun attacks by the loyalist terrorists of the UVF on two families in County Armagh on 4 January 1976, two days before the event you recall.
After all, the RUC and other British security services have been linked to these terrible murders.
The only difference I suppose is that those pulling those strings were already in the employ of the British government.
Sombre remembrance for all the dead.
Garfield,
The murder of all innocents by terrorists is appalling. The UVF scum concerned should also be brought to justice. Your allegations re State Collusion take away from your point.
Chilling.
As i’ve posted previously on thi topic, it was as mindless as it was evil.
Thank god those days and atrocities like that are behind us.
Some whataboutery from Garfield with implied justification? No surprises.
I hate the IRA and all its fellow-travellers.
But correct me if I’m wrong: weren’t the UDR implicated in the Miami Showband massacre?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/15/newsid_2534000/2534941.stm
substitute Sunie for IRA and Sheite for UVF….
No Peter. The UDR was not. Two members of the UDR were and were duly sentenced to life. Rightly so.
But we must not label an entire organisation just because of a rotten few. That would be like saying that because a Priest is convicted of paedophilia the Irish Priesthood is riddled with ;Paedos.
Glenanne was a sickening atrocity.
<<Two members of the UDR were and were duly sentenced to life >>
Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville, two UVF men that were killed in the attack when the bomb that they were planting exploded premeturely, were also serving members of the UDR David.
Both were later given a UVF paramilitary funeral – complete with a volley of shots – and a service conducted by none other than the Rev William McCrea.
So how does that justify Kingsmill Davy ?
Would you say that IRA bombings justified the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings ?
A terrible terrible day.
I too note the difference between Garfield and Armaghlite’s post
Davy,
The two concerned got the due rewards then when the bomb exploded. Good thing too. I hope you would agree that a similar fate is warranted for the IRA leader who authorised the La Mon House bombing.
So how does that justify Kingsmill Davy ?
I cant see anything in Davys post that justifies Kingmills or even hints at it.
Really Submariner ? Why else would Davy and Garfield mention other atrocities by the UVF except in mitigation?
I think the point he was making to David that there was more than two UDR members involved in the Miami showband killings.
So what Sumariner? What bearing does that have on the Kingsmill massacre unless he, like Garfield, feels that the prevous murders in some way justified what the IRA did?
Davys post did not mention anything about other killings rather he was pointing out Davids error in saying that only two members of the UDR were involved in the Miami killings.
What have the Miami killings got to do with Kingsmill unless they are being used in some way to justify or mitigate the IRA’s behaviour ?
There was, however, NO ERROR in my remembrance of an IRA gunmen riddling the workers bus with bullets as a total of 136 shots were fired.and killing ten defenceless men. No convictions, no nothing. Just the silence of those who know who the guilty are and where they are now located.
I am sick of the efforts of lame-brained Irish Republicans to divert attention away from the central point on THIS post – the depravity of militant Irish Republicanism and the depravity of those who now seek to seat the apologists for such terror in power. It’s high time ALL DECENT PEOPLE united in agreeing when evil stalked the earth. It did that night in 1976 and I know all to well what it did to the next of kin.
<<So how does that justify Kingsmill Davy>> ?
It dosen’t. YOU were the one that brought Kingsmill, (an equally horrific atrocity), into the equation. I was pointing out that David was not strictly correct re the UVF/UDR members of the Miami Showband gang.
<<What have the Miami killings got to do with Kingsmill unless they are being used in some way to justify or mitigate the IRA’s behaviour>>?
I never tried to justify anything, I’ll leave insinuations like that to evil bastards with warped imaginations
Davy McFaul,
I have no trouble accepting that FOUR men who served in the UDR were guilty of the atrocity of which you speak. The point is that it has damn all to do with this particular post.
that FOUR men who served in the UDR were guilty of the atrocity of which you speak
It was Nine actually Dave but lets not split hairs over it. Speaking of the UVF i see that David Ervine is critically ill in the RVH indeed RTE reported earlier that he had died but later retracted the story from their web site.
Thanks for your reply David, I really was correctiong a slightly incorrect factual error. As to your point regarding Miami to the relevance of this post objectively I’d say that Garfield was trying to point out that evil stalked the earth on successive occasions in this part of Ireland but I’m sure that Garfield is able to defend himself.
Whataboutery from McFaul.
Davy,
I fully agree with you – evil did indeed stalk the Earth on many other occassions.
Subby,
Missed that about Ervine…?