As anyone who has grown up in the northern part of Europe during the last many years probably will know, there is that not so small conflict in Northern Ireland. While the nightly news are no longer filled with the latest reports about bombings, they are still fighting for freedom, for unity and against ignorance. This is just one story out of many, and unfortunately an excellent showcase for how the fire of hatred are still burning all too brightly.
A friend of mine, military and with wounds to prove it, were looking for information about the notorious prison The Maze (Long Kesh), which were used to house the political prisoners at the hight of the conflict, and which ultimately became known as the place where 10 men paid the ultimate price during the hungerstrike of 1981. My friend came across someones private website for Maze Prison, Northern Ireland. This is the note he sent to them.
I came across your site doing a web search and thought "Cool I can get the view of prison I remember hearing about as a child from family friends ." I was wrong in that I see. You are biased. Brave Officers Really ? No. I am very pro Republican . I had family die in 1916 raising . For you to call the political prisoners Terrorists is an insult. I recommend reading the diary of Bobby Sands to get the view from an inmate. How dare you call the inmates the worse of the worse and murders. My best friend grew up in Northern Ireland with theses "Brave" Officers and soldiers of HRM Army shooting and raiding houses. She'd spends summers here and would jump every time a firecracker went off because it reminded her of the guns back home. She was scared to death when we took her to West point to see the US military Academy of any one in military fatigues . How dare you!
And this is the reply he got in return.
Hi. Thanks for writing in.
In Hartford, Connecticut USA, a memorial was dedicated to Bobby Sands and the other ‘men’ who took their own lives for the ethos of murdering innocent people. People who went onto the streets and left bombs in packed shopping areas killing 29 people and a mother carrying unborn twins on the streets of Northern Ireland.
A family member of mine who is currently serving in Afghanistan, told me about an American marine out there. He wore an IRA badge on his uniform and when asked about it, he said it was because half his family were ‘Irish’ and he supported the fight for freedom?!
When my family member pointed out that supporting this romantic twisted ethos of freedom meant he was supporting people who left bombs in packed shopping streets that killed innocent ‘Catholic and Protestant’ Mothers and children, the marine just smiled. Then when he went on to point out that the IRA HATE the American troops fighting in Iraq and Afgan with a passion and have done arms deals with Libya and lots more countries that directly supported the slaughtering of American troops. And that the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983 that killed over 200 United States marines was carried out by the very group that met with the IRA and swapped weapons, money and bomb making skills. His face dropped like a stone.
You’re the total SHAME and the people of your country that recognise these scum as ‘freedom’ fighters, yet the people they did arms deals with and bought and swapped bomb making skills with (the Muslin extremists that attacked your country) are what?? Terrorists! - The IRA was and still are an illegal terrorist group who murdered 1000’s on the streets of Northern Ireland. They killed Catholics and Protestants with no regard for religion or race, some of these innocent people are buried in graves that remain unfound, and you remember them in a good light?! FACT – The Brave protectors in the IRA, the men who stood up for all things ‘Irish’ and ‘Catholic’ killed more innocent Catholics with bullets and bombs than the British Army ever did?! But then an ignorant American would not know this.
Do you know the IRA helped the Nazi’s at the height World War II? Do you know they lit fires to guide Nazi bombers into Northern Ireland, so that innocent people could be bombed on the ground? What you read here today is all FACT, no old bullshit and no overstatement.
I come from a long line of Army and Marine men, my family members fought alongside American troops in World War II, they found against the Nazi’s in Europe and today the Royal Irish Regiment fight alongside American troops in the Middle East. The IRA and Sinn Fein HATE your troops and they did secret weapons deals with most of the countries your government and people would consider rogue nations, these countries burn your flag and would take the heads off your people in a second.
I’m sickened and angered that ignorant people like you would permit this statue to remain within an American city. It spits in the face of every young American man and woman that is carried home from the warzones abroad. You might as well put a statue of Osama Bin Ladin in your country, because this has the same meaning.
Now you think about above the next time you take your friend to west point. And you think about this every time an American coffin comes home draped in your flag. If I were you I would also think about it before coming out in support of a group and 'men' within said group like Bobby Sands that were part of a group that your government class as an illegal terrorist organisation. I wonder how homeland security or the FBI would feel about you writing emails in support of such a group and the people within?
Go read a bit of real history and stop sucking in the lies from poeple who dish it out like it was an international holiday.
Thanks.
Admin
I think the admins words are speaking pretty clearly for how far Ireland still has to go before her children can breathe freely. If you want to read more perls from the website admin of MazePrison.com, and a few reactions, go here and here