Oh look here's the resident IRA apologist.
Durham Giant wrote:
Is this the same Cronus who castigated posters on here for celebrating Thatchers death ?
My actual words: "mildly amused". Get your facts right lad.
As I wrote on the Guardian comments
He was a better man than me and also a lot of contributors on here. He was certainly a lot more forgiving.
You persist with that dying failure of a "newspaper"? Awful publication and even worse online. Surpassed only by the hilarious Indy.
A mass murderer, guilty (directly and indirectly) of the murder of hundreds of civilians, soldiers and police officers, of detonating bombs in towns and villages across Norn Iron and mainland UK, and of mass organised criminal activity. Of the kidnap, torture and murder of god knows how many. Oh yes, a better man surely. A paragon of virtue. A shining light no less.
He told John Humphreys of the BBC apparently that it was wrong to celebrate anyone's death ( this was in response to people celebrating Thatchers death). I openly admit I celebrated her death.
That you did, you kept that thread going single-handedly. And posted the longest and most boring poem I've ever not bothered to finish.
So now I can reflect on his humanity and ability to forgive. Maybe I can learn a lot from his life and death about how to be a better person.
RIP Martin McGuinness.
Oh cry me a river.
I acknowledge his work later in his life when he realised violence had failed and managed to convince the IRA likewise. But that can NEVER forgive or absolve him of the acts he committed and advocated.