Time for trials
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:38 pm
Since the security services have let us down, and should be blamed for what happened on Thursday---or if not them, then their ultimate boss, the PM---let's really get tough.
Tony should also be charged over the Omagh bombing. Security services were warned about this one, but did nothing.
Major should stand trial for the Warrington atrocity.
Thatcher must be locked up now pending her facing charges over allowing 11 years of IRA attacks in Northern Ireland and the British mainland.
Jim Callaghan and Harold Wilson should be exhumed and hung from lamp-posts for their negligence that cost dozens if not hundreds of lives.
Or failing all that, someone should wait to find out who was behind those heinous acts of barbarity on Thursday. If, when inquiries are carried out, it turns out that our intelligence gathering agencies ignored a threat they had been warned about, then yes we should be demanding resignations. As it is, police are still trying to recover bodies, so it may be a little early yet.
Most people, when they judge a situation wrongly, have the strength of character to apologise. Better to hold your peace until an appropriate time to comment. But there are some people so righteously right in their rightness that nothing can shut them up.
Tony should also be charged over the Omagh bombing. Security services were warned about this one, but did nothing.
Major should stand trial for the Warrington atrocity.
Thatcher must be locked up now pending her facing charges over allowing 11 years of IRA attacks in Northern Ireland and the British mainland.
Jim Callaghan and Harold Wilson should be exhumed and hung from lamp-posts for their negligence that cost dozens if not hundreds of lives.
Or failing all that, someone should wait to find out who was behind those heinous acts of barbarity on Thursday. If, when inquiries are carried out, it turns out that our intelligence gathering agencies ignored a threat they had been warned about, then yes we should be demanding resignations. As it is, police are still trying to recover bodies, so it may be a little early yet.
Most people, when they judge a situation wrongly, have the strength of character to apologise. Better to hold your peace until an appropriate time to comment. But there are some people so righteously right in their rightness that nothing can shut them up.