tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6382482801867535104..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Does British Army Document Confirm Kevin McKee’s Role As IRA Informer?AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-38066622091075601672022-04-12T07:50:24.916+01:002022-04-12T07:50:24.916+01:00The last comment unfortunately did not make it thr...The last comment unfortunately did not make it through. TPQ does not publish comments from "Unknown". It leads to too much confusion when there are multiple users posting as "Unknown". If your comment is for publication and you wish to maintain your privacy use a pen name at the very bottom of your comment.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-38492881814848884912015-06-30T08:36:36.747+01:002015-06-30T08:36:36.747+01:00More than likely Kevin McKee was executed to cover...More than likely Kevin McKee was executed to cover for someone else.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786762654948230944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3869256681968816842015-06-29T11:54:33.287+01:002015-06-29T11:54:33.287+01:00McKee was just a school kid. The person who order...McKee was just a school kid. The person who ordered his death placed no value on his life but placed a great deal on his death and the miss-conceived effect it would have...it didn't stop informers!<br /><br />That's the sad thing about informers, killing them doesn't stop them. <br /><br /><br /> Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-80480850636706639882015-06-28T20:39:07.363+01:002015-06-28T20:39:07.363+01:00James,
injustice produces conflict; conflict in t...James,<br /><br />injustice produces conflict; conflict in turn produces people not always motivated by the just resolution of conflict but thrown up by it nonetheless. The conflict is political even if the motives of everyone involved are not. Courage is a very finite resource and should be used sparingly with as much of it reserved as possible for future emergencies rather then being expended AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-26588344889226701352015-06-28T20:15:47.180+01:002015-06-28T20:15:47.180+01:00AM,
This is true, as you say people were simply b...AM,<br /><br />This is true, as you say people were simply battered or tortured into it and then had the indignity of losing face amongst their peers, therefore after the physical pain has erased then the mental pain of letting the side down would begin. Thats the whole rationale behind brutally and torture by any establishment. It really sounded like russian roulette to who was going to get it Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06723910668373541600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-36901418228694477652015-06-28T18:09:17.299+01:002015-06-28T18:09:17.299+01:00Marty,
it is just such a tragic outcome to such a...Marty,<br /><br />it is just such a tragic outcome to such a young life. When I was 16 I thought I knew everything. Now I am just glad not to be young enough to know everything. I was in jail at 16 but what is there to say given how vulnerable we are at that age that I could not have ended up another Kevin as a result of a different turn of events? <br /><br />One of the guys mentioned in Dixie&#AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-41586358893812437162015-06-28T17:53:29.484+01:002015-06-28T17:53:29.484+01:00I agree with your comments Anthony re some touts a...I agree with your comments Anthony re some touts are more privileged than others, this has been well born out by how many well connected have simply been allowed to walk away proving if needed how dysfunctional the movement really was.and when we see how easily the Green book was discarded by the elite cin their headless headlong rush to be accommodated in a Brit solution my judgement is that if Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00215649855508999519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-54814814393483663362015-06-28T16:46:36.041+01:002015-06-28T16:46:36.041+01:00James,
I know the Americans will execute people f...James,<br /><br />I know the Americans will execute people for things they did as kids but for me it is hardly a civilised form of behaviour, savage in essence. <br /><br />Unfortunately, militaries are about bravado and balls; a macho culture where weakness is concealed within oneself and despised within others. There was little understanding within the IRA or other militaries for that matter ofAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-28981735665790931662015-06-28T16:16:07.782+01:002015-06-28T16:16:07.782+01:00AM,
Total agreement with the above post. Someone a...AM,<br />Total agreement with the above post. Someone at sixteen years of age,who either was involved in the republican or loyalist military side basically no matter how they bluff and blow they display with all the street knowledge, they simply in my opinion cannot really fathom what the hell the whole conflict is about.<br /><br />If they do and it is not from some sort of a tribal sectarian Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06723910668373541600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-82560939594037942722015-06-28T15:35:07.082+01:002015-06-28T15:35:07.082+01:00Marty,
but if we look at the type of people who w...Marty,<br /><br />but if we look at the type of people who would have been putting the bullet behind his ear it is hard to say he deserved it. <br /><br />My own view? He was a kid at 16, succumbed to the power of the state and all it had at its disposal. And it was a callous, cynical state with no regard for people like him. His understanding of life was extremely limited. There was a war and AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43801489477899605162015-06-28T11:35:12.909+01:002015-06-28T11:35:12.909+01:00He may have deserved a bullet behind the ear but h...He may have deserved a bullet behind the ear but his family did not deserve the torment and tortureAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00215649855508999519noreply@blogger.com