cancel2 2022
Canceled
Posted on Facebook today about the arrest of a Paratrooper regarding Bloody Sunday. Blair spent £200 million on the Bloody Sunday inquiry and it went on for 12 years making rich bastard lawyers even richer. Naturally the Nationalists were totally exonerated including McGuinness who was there and started the whole thing off by firing the first shot.
The Current situation with regards the arrest of a member of the Parachute Regiment is, for the Armed services past and present, a Spartacus moment. Any number of us could be in the Dock for what we had to do in the service of our country. Especially in light of the legal firms set up to pursue grievances at any cost (i.e Public service lawyers) I wonder if you have any idea the anger and sense of betrayal that this arrest has generated within the service family.
I just cannot believe the lack of sensitivity in terms of the decision to arrest the member of the Parachute Regiment over Bloody Sunday in the middle of remembrance tide! What a message to send out to the service family past and present. One can only come to the conclusion this is a political decision and deliberately done to send a message to the Armed services and people of NI as to the ascendancy of the republican cause! Bad enough to attack us but does the government have no feeling for the majority of people in NI? May be you don’t remember or care about the Remembrance Day parade bomb that killed so many! Someone needs to be servery reprimanded for this act of gross insensitivity. What is the Minister responsible for NI going to do about this?
The message to the services? Serve your country and the Government will ensure your enemies will have at their disposal everything they need to attack British Military personnel. Afghanistan, Iraq and now NI! What an abysmal record your government has in supporting the Armed Forces. I hesitate to call it my government any longer. You represent a huge military area and many of us will be expecting you to represent our considerable anger at the “get out of jail free card” given to the IRA but leaving us open to their continued attacks and propaganda funded by the state.
The Good Friday agreement is a one-sided agreement in which the IRA/SF have been absolved of the 3000+ murders they committed in a gross and nasty sectarian war in which they gave no mercy. Some 1,200 servicemen and women, Police officers and Prison Warders died at their hands. Over 6,100 troops were recorded as wounded, since then many more have taken their own lives or sunken into mental health problems which destroyed their lives and their families.
Mile Dillon-Lee and I trained together and served in the Royal Artillery. He was brutally murdered in Dortmund. We both left a party he and his wife were followed home it could have been me they followed. They shot him as he got out of his car and his wife went to help him, they pistol whipped her to get her away from him so they could execute him. She hung on to him to try to protect him, but to no avail they killed him in her arms! So who had the shoot to kill policy!
Next year is 40th anniversary of the death of Gnr Miller a member of my 1st Troop, shot by the IRA while on patrol in Londonderry but murdered by the Altnagelvin Hospital emergency room staff who refused to treat him. It was and still is a NHS Hospital. At that time it had one of the most experienced surgical trauma teams in the world. As a barely 20 year old I had to load my rifle in an NHS operating theatre and stand guard as our medical Officer tried to save his life with no help. They stood and watched with their hands in their pockets. They failed as human beings, they failed as NHS staff and they failed to observe their duty to the Hippocratic Oath. He subsequently died of his wounds. To my knowledge none of them were held to account for their dreadful behaviour. Perhaps I should be demanding justice for Buff Miller, Should I be demanding you take action to get the NHS to discipline the staff? I, and many other can open the can of worms if that is what you as a government want. I could go on but I won’t bore you with the others I knew who died serving their country and stood on the front line of democracy, since your government doesn’t seem to care.
A line now needs to be drawn on the troubles in NI and that includes halting the persecution of our security personnel. I have to say the Saville inquiry was a very one sided affair. He perused, at considerable expense, anyone he felt he needed to bring to heel in the establishment but let the IRA off! Many of those who could have given evidence had died by “Saville” and with such a narrow remit, some who could have given evidence didn’t. McGuinness was well known to have been involved and to have taken an offensive part in firing on British troops. A friend of mine who was there (he died of cancer a while ago; showed me in 1976 where he was on that day on the city walls and how he and his men came under fire. The Paras who were on the ground below him; clearly thought they were being shot at. And frankly if you are in a riot and people start shooting in your direction it can be very difficult to establish who is being shot at!
I am not saying they (the Paras) were without fault and there was a breakdown of junior leadership but the people who really should be in the doc are those who ordered them into the Bogside. A bunch of 19 year olds in a riot and under attack, reacted to the attack launched against them. Pandering to Republican vindictiveness is not going to heal wounds in what is now a one-sided IRA/SF government funded assault on the forgotten Army that fought to maintain peace and up hold law and order in NI against the best efforts of both sides.
I doubt you have any idea of what it is like, the visceral hatred and the crowed mentality gripping people as a riot gets going. The stones and catapults and any other items they can find, get thrown, gunmen and nail bombers use the crowd for cover to attack. No other countries armed forces have shown such restraint as ours and frankly but for the grace of God there go I!
You have showed yourself to be an exemplary constituency MP, so I sincerely hope you will use your position as a PPS to ensure the cabinet is aware of the anger of the service family. One you may well once again be needing. They need to know they will be better looked after than us.
Yours sincerely,
Last edited:
