" I couldn't sell my hoose for 20 years because of that fucking mural now its a tourist attraction, funny how things work out."
The last weeks in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands are to be made into a film, called 'Hunger' it will be shown on Channel 4 next year.
Sands aged 27, died in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in May 1981, shortly after being elected an MP I suppose MP looks better than terrorist. The Maze (or Long Kesh) is the prison that held terrorists which is now closed doon and all the prisoners released in one of Blair's stupid moves for peace.
Bobby Sands refused food for 66 days in a protest over political status and the treatment of republican prisoners in the Maze prison. He was the first of 10 men to die but no one remembers the names of the other 9 losers, well the Fenians might but who cares?
I hope they include the smearing of shit all over their cell walls or dirty protest as it was called, the guards soon came to the conclusion that if they want to live like that and not eat then fair play to the dirty cunts.
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The hunger strike centred around "Five Demands":
The right not to wear a prison uniform;
The right not to do prison work;
The right of free association with other prisoners;
The right to organise their own educational and recreational facilities;
The right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week.
The significance of the hunger strike was to be declared as political prisoners not as criminals, in my own humble opinion the IRA are all criminals much like their Prod counterparts the UVF. You're in prison for a reason laddy.
The film maker who goes by the name Steve McQueen is a Turner Prize-winning artist or twat if you will, is all set to make Sands more of a hero for protesting and dying for his cause in the only way he was able to at least its only on Channel 4 , no need to dig up the past so close to the fragile peace well unless you're going to dig him up to show off in a side show.
Murals of Bobby Sands have been up on the sides of hooses for years now, hes got his 72 virgins and will always be remembered for his slim figure and bad hair do .
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The Iranians named in the street where the British Embassy is located after Bobby Sands. What are you going to do restore British honour?
Not the kind of skinny dying fucker I would be hot for.
So what kind of movie rating does a film get if you have the lead character flinging his own poo?
It's hard to think of the Maze as a real prison -- If you're able to tell the outside world what your "demands" are, while you are still in prison, you can't be all that badly off. Those prisoners obviously hadn't read Dickens.
We are going to get a lot of this now.Re-Writing of History via Hollwood.
What Price Renée Zellweger as Bernadette Devlin McAliskey ?
I had forgotten all about Bobby Sands. Since I have been in prison, 3 1/2 years, I think it's insane to think that you would have the right to wear what you want and what not. I did not remember those facts, you know their list of demands. Seems a bit outrageous, even to me. But I'm glad you can be fair, when you made this statement
"...all criminals much like their Prod counterparts the UVF..."
That says a lot about fairness Da, or at least looking at things in an unbiased manner. I of course, emulate you.
It seems like 8 demands to me.
fat sparrow I liked to think of it as an actual maze full of confused rats.
Tony Ryan Reynolds as Gerry Adams and Christian Slater as maddog adair, I'd watch it.
babsbitchin its like schools you can't believe what the kids are allowed to get away with these days. I'ts easy to be fair and balanced when you've seen the nasty side of both Prods and Taigs paramilitaries aimed at you, they aren't that much different all scum.
Ms Pool back then the catholics went to catholic only schools, it shows in the counting.
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