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[Barney Rubble]

Is that Photoshopped?

I mean I know the top part is true because those Loyalists are a special kind of shit all of their own but the bottom part ... 'Will save the Onion'???

You missed the Provocol there too....

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[8ighty8ight]

That the UDR served a vital function for the British state is evidenced by its tolerance of rampant criminality within its ranks. Between 1985 and 1989, UDR members were twice as likely to commit a crime as the general public. The UDR crime rate was 10 times that for police officers in the RUC and about four times the British army rate.
By the early 1990s, around 120 members or former members of the regiment were serving prison sentences for serious crimes, and 17 had been convicted of murder.
Withholding identity

There is mounting evidence that the NIO, the RUC and the prosecution service colluded in a consistent policy of withholding the UDR identity of soldiers who were being prosecuted for serious crimes. In several such incidences, documents from the NIO’s Law & Order Division state that “the Police will not be referring to his membership of the security forces”.
This was not just a kind of ad hoc, case-by-case decision, taken at a junior level, which one might expect to result from the odd “bad apple” in the ranks.
Imagine, in a modern context, if a US state trooper was in court for invading the US Congress, and his official identity was deliberately hidden from court by elements of the state. This was the case for numerous cases of former UDR members who were before the courts.



We are approaching the 30th anniversary of the regiment’s dissolution. And yet truths continue to emerge that unlock closely guarded state secrets about the British “dirty war” in Ireland, not least the role of the UDR.
Researching my new book, UDR Declassified, over the past two years, I was able to see and read what 10 Downing Street, the NIO and the British Ministry of Defence knew (and said) about the controversial regiment in more than 200 declassified documents recovered from the British National Archives.
Exposing such truths, using the very words of those in authority, is not “rewriting” history, it is correcting it.
UDR Declassified, by Micheál Smith, is published by Merrion Press.

Thanks for that. Great read

[pegmyass85]

Good looking women. Shame She's a C U Next Tuesday.

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[EdwardElizabethHitler]

Meanwhile, In Londonderry.

Lyra McKee: Arrests made and petrol bombs seized during republican parade on third anniversary of journalist's death.
Lyra McKee's partner said the parade was a "slap in the face" and showed a "lack of respect" for the journalist's loved ones.
Several men have been arrested and petrol bombs have been seized petrol during an Easter parade in Ireland, on the third anniversary of Lyra Mckee's killing.

Police Service of Northern Ireland said there were reports of disturbances at the City Cemetery, where a wreath-laying ceremony was due to take place today.

Police confirmed officers had come under attack and they arrested five men, aged 29, 38, 40, 50 and 54 years, under the Terrorism Act and a sixth man, 40, was arrested on suspicion of disorderly behaviour.

Several vehicles, suspected terrorist uniforms and petrol bombs were also seized.

Derry & Strabane District Commander, Chief Superintendent Ryan Henderson said: "Earlier today, police were in attendance at a notified parade in the city. On the basis of initial observations, participants in the parade were assessed as having potentially committed criminal offences.

"Police monitored the event closely and, at what was considered to be an appropriate point, took action to secure evidence and make arrests.

"Whilst doing so, police officers came under attack from petrol bombs and masonry.

https://news.sky.com/story/lyra-mcke...-face-12593021

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[TonyStark]

Good looking women. Shame She's a C U Next Tuesday.

It wasn't her who said that. Not sure why the headline is set out like that. It was sammy wilson of the dupers who said that.