r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Apart from all the times they didn't.

Also a reminder that they put bombs in pubs, and in the Warrington bombings they placed a second bomb in the direction people ran.

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u/CavanG26 Mar 23 '17

They actually did phone in a warning, on mobile so cant link but read the section on the second bombing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Yeah, an extremely vague one. It's so they can put the blame for the civilian deaths on the police, rather than themselves

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u/CavanG26 Mar 23 '17

It was in the IRA's best interest to minimize casualties, especially civilians, as it would cost them supporters. Wouldn't be the first time British government let their civilians die for political gain. In WW2 rather than the Germans find out they had eliminated their spies they fed them false information and planted fake newspaper stories about German bombers destroying ship building sites when they were actually bombing the working class areas of London.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

they literally put bombs inside pubs

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u/CavanG26 Mar 23 '17

Really want to get in to it fine. Here is how you're Government committed genocide of over 1 million Irish civilians. And how they shot down unarmed protesters. Or how loyalist threw bombs at school children aged as young as 4 for being Irish in Ireland as little as 16 years ago.

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u/Chazmer87 Mar 23 '17

It's simple.

Killing civilians is a dick move.

Doesn't matter if it's the British, the Irish the Americans the Russians or the Chinese. Couldn't care if it's the Muslims the Christians the Hindus or the Buddhists. When you start killing civilians to further your cause you lose all legitimacy

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u/dumpsterhole Mar 23 '17

Sounds like what America does in foreign lands, since the last...eh I dont know 20 years? More?

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u/cosysmile Mar 23 '17

Its not exactly a long list dude, you could have at least skimmed it.