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Fails the Fact Check

Revisado: 09-21-24

If true, this story tells of a casual yet eager slide into fascism. The author tells of his participation in several questionable/wildly unlawful activities. He reveals his derision for anyone that questions his actions

But the facts just don't add up. The CAIN archive has a highly detailed list of casualties during the troubles, so when the author claims to have shot two men in the chest at point black range in a pub, then a couple of weeks later shoots two or three people in a drive by, but those multiple shootings don't show up in the CAIN archive, you have no option but to believe these are fabrications.

He tells of an encounter with a harmless innocent drunk one night. He points his pistol in the drunk's throat while his partner strangles him (not to death). Then they laugh about it. Then they tell all the guys at the barracks about it, and they all have a good laugh. The author is oblivious to the fact that he is an unchecked fascist at this point.

He claims to have pulled his gun on two RUC detectives, he claims that he made a high ranking politician's Special Branch security detail surrender their guns. He claims that a twelve year old boy discharged a pistol in his face at point black range but missed, so he didn't bother to report it. All nonsense.

Then, out of the blue, he pontificates on how Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't possibly have killed JFK. He does this twice, in two separate chapters.

I was about to give up about half way through, but I'm glad I stayed to the end because he really reveals his hand at the end. This is a person that believes themself to be above the law; he claims that he felt like he had a license to kill. He closes the book with his wish to return to Northern Ireland so that he can piss on the graves of the people he killed.

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