Sinn Fein was the political front for the IRA. To pretend otherwise is worse than naive – it is purblind.

Although “an eye for an eye” revenge tactics cannot realy be justified as justice, I do not shed one tear for the man.

However, I do think that he should be locked up for life and the only way he gets out of prison is in a coffin. Even then, like days of old, he should be buried in a prison graveyard with no stone or markings. He denied little Peter his human rights, so should sacrifice his.

This goes for anyone who repeatedly commits such brutal and deliberate acts of violence that lead to the death of anyone.

I think that is about right. And I certainly agree that we are too soft on parole. And, although there will be hysterical cries on here, I think “prison justice” exemplifies much that is wrong outside prison. “Give him a beating and the screws won’t see it” is an extension of the same attitude outside prison. If prisoners can get away with meeting out violence because they don’t like what a fellow criminal did or the shape of his nose, what hope when they get out? Assault by prisoners inside should heavily punished, no parole, and rights withdrawn, permanently, for the duration of the sentence.

Well probably, but the personal, subjective response is not how you make good law. If the tabloid-mentality readership were making the laws, we’d be back in the Dark Ages. Just look at the braying mobs outside the courtrooms of controversial trials.

Builders are late!!:mad:

I really enjoy this type of innocent double entendre. It might be worthy of a new thread.

And she’s coming here for “peace and contentment”?? She must be mad. Or she must know something we don’t!

Well, life has always been full of paradoxes. I fall into the category of being vehemently opposed to Sharia law AND to capital punishment and avenging justice, here.

Far from being amusing this thread is going nowhere. We have one passionately irrational individual who will never alter his coloured point of view of the situation against a melee of opposing voices.

It should have been moved but unless EGPH can find a few objective soulmates it will become rant versus rant.

Whatever the merits and demerits of the case it is undeniable that the IRA set out to kill and mame protestants and the British Army attempted to bring law and order to the region. In that process they killed civilians. The difference is that they did not go there to kill civilians of any religion.