Should the Queen Have apologised to the Irish?

[IAN 2411]

Throughout the past 4 days, Queen Elizabeth has been visiting the Irish Republic - the first British monarch to have been to that part of the island for 100 years. The visit has been a considerable success. At one point the Queen laid a wreath in the Garden of Remembrance in memory of those who died fighting for independence.

Now she should stand on that Balcony at Buck/House and apologise to all the British Soldiers wives, Children and relations that have lost their loved ones to the sound of the Thomson and Armour-light rifle. She had no damn right to honour the fallen IRA, she should be severely reprimanded by her Generals an behalf of the armed forces.

Everyone - even Gerry Adams - recognises this as a positive step in normalising relations between the two countries, but should she have gone further and apologised for the British actions against the Irish freedom fighters - the Easter Rising, Croke Park, the Great Famine, Oliver Cromwell, the Tudor invasion, and so on back into the mists of time?

And if she did, should the Irish accept it?

Where do you get Irish freedom fighters from? They were no better than Irish Mafia, killers of children, pregnant women, invalids that could not escape their bombs in time....get real. What did the people of Omagh Northern Ireland do to deserve the damage and death that was dealt them? Taking people off the street because they dared to steal and knee-capping them, [For all those that don’t know, knee-capping is being tied to a chair and having a electric drill pushed through your knee-cap while awake]. What army in the free world that is fighting for freedom does that? They must have learnt that from the Nazis when they invited them over there during the war. Gerry Adams wouldn’t recognise a good thing if it was done to him personally, as he is now and always was the political wing of the IRA. He must have went back home, and played with himself after seeing that. While I was over in the Province he was but a hairs breadth away from ending up in Long-Kesh prison.

You might well ask.

Perhaps to assuage a sense of injustice; perhaps to help "normalise" relations between the two nations; perhaps to make religious/nationalist terrorism less acceptable to the Irish; perhaps to enhance trade opportunities.

Or perhaps it is to follow a modern trend of apologising for past hurts by people who did not commit those acts to people who did not suffer from them in the interests of political correctness.

Or maybe to just to say the British are weak and spineless, sorry Paddy, old King Billy should not have done what he did. Now that you know what really nice people we are, you can send the Real IRA over to give the British more of the same, because just like the Provisional IRA they are bloody minded killers with less intelligence than that of a plant.

The modern trend for the IRA whether Real/Provisional is to go out to Libya or the Middle East and train Al-Qeada. Will Obama apologise for the bombing of Iraq, killing all those civilians in the name of WOMD, that never existed except in the warped minds of Bush/Blair?

Isn't that a litle silly, like getting the current head of Italy to apologize to France for what the Romans did when they invaded Gual?

I am with you on that one denu, I suppose while the Queen is in the mood for apologising she might as well include, India, Africa, Australia, the West Indies, and others in the old British Empire.

Yeah, I can agree to a point. Except that a lot of the problems which have been ongoing in Ireland have happened during Elizabeth's reign.

Bullshit....The problems lasted so long in Elizabeth’s time because the Irish Americans could not keep their nose out of the Province. They were sending the IRA weapons to fight for the cause, because the IRA had more Armour light rifles and Thomson Machine Guns to fight with than your own National Guard. The IRA was receiving Millions of dollars every month to kill the British soldier. It makes me wonder at times what the hell this Brit/Am special relationship is all about. I was out there for two tours with the Special Forces, and every paddy that was shot while sniping the soldiers, had an American Rifle in his hand, and American Explosives were also found in the IRA safe houses. Be lucky because I don’t dislike the Americans, only their weird sense of values when it comes to talking about Ireland, and how they supposedly brought about the peace. Over 1200 brave men were killed out there, and they were not looking after the Loyalists, but looking after the Catholics that were hell bent on killing them.

Then, too, a lot of the problems can be laid right at the feet of the IRA. Maybe when the Irish apologize for the bombings in London, or the assassination of Lord Mountbatten, the Queen can worry about apologizing for British abuses.

No, because as I have just said, most of the problem came from over the pond, if they never had the weapons and money peace would have come faster.

Just one other point I would like to mention and that is I am not anti Irish but i am bitter, and you could not pay me enough to holiday there. It is no good stating the history of Ireland, if you are not going to state the intelligence that was gathered and passed out to the forces on the ground and the Brits on the mainland.

Be well IAN 2411