Shinnerbots tend to be lacking in original thoughts, which is why I seldom spend more than a minute communicating with them. It's the same nonesense every time. Every exchange with them is just a Twitter equivalent to Groundhog Day... One example of their tedious lack of imagination, is the use of "50%+1" as a reference to a border poll on a united Ireland. All they can manage is a variation on the same theme. They can't really elaborate on the point they are trying to make. They make some bold claim about...

Sinn Fein likes to portray itself as a progressive party that advocates civil and human rights. That would be the same party that advocated a "ballot box and Armalite" strategy during the Troubles, whilst it's terrorist wing was violating human rights on a daily basis, with... ...its campaign of mass murder, maiming and wanton destruction. Here we are in 2022 and there is hardly a week goes past without us seeing yet another member of Sinn Fein eulogising dead terrorists, or making excuses for PIRA's campaign of terrorism. Clearly Sinn Fein are...

Sinn Fein supporters keep telling me to "move on" and stop commenting about PIRA's mass murdering past, or it's relationship with Sinn Fein. They say it's been a long time, things have changed.

Here is Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly from a month ago in a...

anphoblacht.com/contents/28370 ...pro IRA paper, commenting on the importance of legacy issues and investigating events in the past.

I'm going to guess that investigating PIRA's psst isn't a top priority for Sinn Fein voters, but here's the thing. If Sinn Fein's public position is that the British govnt...

If you want to understand the current Palestine/Israel situation, it would be helpful to study some of the history. This is a pretty good summary of the beginning of the conflict in the 1940s. There is a link in the text to 1967 that is worth reading...

history.state.gov/milestones/194… You will notice that there was a UN resolution regarding partition in 1948 that the Palestinians chose to oppose. This ultimately led to violence then all out war, which didn't go according to plan for the Arabs. You could say that this set the tone for the decades that followed.

As stated earlier this week, this data on religious belief will be used by some to push a political agenda about a united Ireland etc. I find this quite laughable. It is a simplistic, superficial analysis of a complex issue. Firstly, I'm unconvinced...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… ...that everyone in Northern Ireland who identifies as being Protestant or Catholic, are actually Christians who believe in God & the resurrection of Jesus. If you "don't do God", then self-identifying as someone on the Christian Venn diagram seems a somewhat empty claim. So...

For a number of years on Twitter I avoided commenting on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I only started Tweeting about it because I couldn't help notice the amount of pro IRA accounts & comments. Several years of pro IRA chanting at a West Belfast festival was not a surprise... ...to anyone paying attention to what young people were saying and glorifying online. When I did start putting forward a counter argument, opposing terrorism, I would predictably get hostile responses that would in some way try to justify PIRA terrorism, or try to deflect any...

There was a time that some of us thought it was madness to sub-contract our manufacturing industry to China, as that would leave us vulnerable in the future to a hostile China. Others didn't listen. There was a time that some of us thought it was madness for European nations... ...to become dependent upon Russia for their oil and gas supplies, as this compromised their energy security. Others didn't listen.

Food security is also important for every nation and in uncertain times such as now, as evidenced by events in Ukraine and the knock-on effect...

I was Tweeting about Hunter Biden, back before the US election. It was known, at least a couple of years ago, that Hunter was involved in what you could loosely call 'business deals' that should have been raising red flags about him & his father. There...

cbsnews.com/amp/news/chuck… ...is no doubt that the laptop he left in for repair & then forgot about, contains incriminating information, but yet the information & even the news story was suppressed prior to the election. Most of the media fell into line with the approved propaganda narrative about...

Any type of barrier between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, is a bad idea. Any type of obstacle that doesn't exist between other parts of the UK, means Northern Ireland is being treated differently. This clearly shouldn't be the case and it was brought about by... ...rather underhand methods, that in effect ignored Unionist concerns. It was a stitch up. This was hardly a basis for a stable and productive future. The protocol was inherently flawed and no amount of spin will remove the inherent flaw. The EU has no real incentive for an...

The political process in Northern Ireland was compromised from the outset. People, including government ministers, bent over backwards to keep Sinn Fein involved. This was despite the fact that PIRA was known to be involved in multiple murders on both sides of the Irish border... ... whilst supposedly on ceasefire. PIRA was also involved in the illegal smuggling of weapons from Florida, during the peace process. PIRA also provided training to Marxist narco-terrorists (FARC) in Colombia and this included training in the manufacture of mortars that....

Woke progressive liberalism isn't actually progressive or liberal. It is authoritarian & the rights of the individual are discarded in favour of the collective. That's a lot closer to authoritarian socialism than liberalism. It attracts people who are by nature... ... authoritarian, but who prefer to be seen as liberal. This authoritarianism extends to controlling speech & thought. There is an intolerance of anything & anyone who does not conform to what is deemed acceptable.

This fake liberalism has been successful, to the extent....

One of the best arguments for religious belief, is militant atheism of the Richard Dawkins variety. Until a few years ago, I was happily minding my own business as an agnostic & then I encountered the Richard Dawkins school of thinking, which was an unpleasant experience. It... ... forced me to not only examine the Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris worldview, but also made me think about my own position (which for decades had essentially been, trying not to think about the subject). It turned out that the militant atheism style of...

I'm making new friends on Wikipedia. For the second time, an editor called FDW777 has removed brief details about the nine people killed in the Claudy bombing. I have reposted the details. Other Troubles related pages have similar info. I have also left a message for FDW777... ... inviting him to contribute to my conversation on social media, regarding the Claudy page and his removal of the names of the victims. I won't be entirely surprised if he fails to respond but I await with eager anticipation. I have attached my invite to FDW777...

So anyway... I've been working on another blog during the week. As 'legacy issues' seem to be the thing these days, or perhaps 'rewriting history' might be more accurate, I'll be restoring some balance in the coming months with my own perspective on the past. This week we'll... ... be looking at a terrorist atrocity from the 1970s. No organisation claimed responsibility & PIRA denied involvement... but of course they were lying. I will also be asking one or two awkward questions about Martin McGuinness' links to what occurred. He quite clearly lied...

As a representative example of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, I know someone who was a very effective officer. He dealt with various crime types, but a lot of his work was terrorist related. He spent most of his career at the pointy end, dealing with numerous murders & other... ... serious, violent crime. He was what I would call an 'operator'. A streetwise, shrewd, cunning individual, who could think outside the box and knew how to play the game better than the opposition. He was involved in the imprisonment of numerous terrorists, both Loyalist and...

Brian Rea is a very decent gentleman, which makes his comments all the more powerful. I suggest you listen to his views, in particular to the closing comments.

It should be remembered that the police are a command organisation. It is not a democracy. If a senior officer gives..

https://twitter.com/StephenNolan/status/1433432390773264390

.. an order, officers in lower ranks are expected to follow the order. This also applies to senior officers receiving an order from the Chief Constable. There may be a discussion, views may be expressed, but ultimately if the Chief Constable says X must be done, then people...

@Wikipedia Hello. I and many other people have noticed that on pages referring to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, members of this terrorist group are often referred to as 'volunteers' rather than 'terrorists'. Attempts to correct this mistake, are regularly deleted... ... PIRA is designated as a terrorist group by the Irish and British governments. It is illegal on both sides of the Irish border and this has been the case for decades. Successive Irish governments have not felt the need to change this designation. Calling members of PIRA...

As mentioned previously, there is a subtle but clear bias on a number of Wikipedia pages regarding the Troubles. So, I have made some additions to one as a test. Several survived but a few were removed. Out of the few that were removed, I wasn't particularly surprised, based... ... upon experience, that an editor removed them, but one deletion was a big surprise. The details I added were not controversial (names / ages of victims) which is consistent with other pages. So, I will be adding them again later. Screenshots are being kept for future use. I...

I'm not convinced. Leaving aside the fact that one poll in 2021 is not a predictor of what will happen years from now, people shouldn't be meekly accepting the concept of a border poll, in which 50%+1 leads to a united Ireland. Unless there is a significant majority, a united...

https://twitter.com/BelTel/status/1432234400566194178

... Ireland would be unworkable. You only have to look at politics in Northern Ireland over recent decades, to get a sense of how ugly things could possibly get in what will be viewed by many as an enforced united Ireland. Unless & until a significant number of Unionists are...

I know from experience that there is Shinnerbot activity on Wikipedia pages related to Northern Ireland. There is clearly spin on a number of articles. I've tested this before by amending a page & watching what happened. So anyway, I happened to see something today about a... ... former Sinn Fein MLA who had been arrested & released without charge, several years ago. It was in relation to a PIRA bombing. The Wikipedia article mentioned the arrest & provided a link to an RTE news item about the arrest / release. The Wiki page then mentioned that the...

This is a short thread on the IRA murder of Patsy Gillespie and 5 British soldiers at Coshquin, on the 24.10.90.

McGuinness spent the Troubles claiming he left PIRA in the early 1970s.

In 1990 he was OC of PIRA's Northern Command. He authorised the bomb attack in Coshquin... Pt 2:

The chilling reality of the PIRA death cult. The murder of Patsy Gillespie and 5 British soldiers at Coshquin.

This attack was part of a coordinated strategy, not the actions of a single rogue unit. The attacks would not have happened without Martin McGuinness' approval.