From freedom fighter to politician, 66 years of age...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39185899
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From freedom fighter to politician, 66 years of age...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39185899
Did a lot of good in the past two decades and a lot of bad preceding that. So I can undersgand both the praise and bile surrounding his death. However as Colin Parry says he was brave and put his own life at risk to achieve a lssting piece. He did have blood on his hands though.
my box of givea****s is empty
Freedom fighter to some.
Terrorist and murderer to others.
Depends on your point of view.
I have a good mate who is from Tramore in the republic. His view on this seems to be that the leaders of the various factions decided to put down their guns and start the peace process when they realised it was a young man's game and they could no longer command as they had done previously. He really did hate the violence and said it just was not the Irish way at all.
"Prime Minister Theresa May said although she could never "condone the path he took in the earlier part of his life, Martin McGuinness ultimately played a defining role in leading the republican movement away from violence"."
Violence that he was instrumental in instigating!! It's disgraceful the way he is held up as some sort of "hero" for his role in eliminating violence when he was the one who was accelerating it. The man has innocent blood on his hands and has now taken his seat in hell - right next to the one with Gerry Adams' name on.
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought. Are you saying that IRA bombing innocent civilians was justified or that they had a valid excuse? Or are you just going off at a tangent?
The same comment is wheeled out by those that defend absolutely any slaughter of jews near their "war zone".
Palestinian deaths are a tragedy carried out by the powerful evil, Israeli deaths are an acceptable result of them living in a war zone.
Mainly peoples agenda is what dictates what they care about, not genuine loss of life.
But when the British do it it is colatterel damage.
The Ministry of Defence use the term for a start:
https://modmedia.blog.gov.uk/2015/12...-need-to-know/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...nocent-4915208
There are hundreds of examples if you do a quick search. The US military may have popularised the expression (to make the killing of civilians sound less like killing) but it is now used everywhere. Maybe the distinction you and TBG are looking for is 'unintended' or not rather than 'lawful' or not? Either way it is semantics.
Alan Partridge was right though- he does look like a clown without the make up
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson...by-gerry-adams
He manages to do that himself these days