The search for UVF leader Gusty Spence, 1972 Granada documentary

[@RedMachineKieran]

God bless him. Im a Catholic and formerly Republican, but my heart in republicanism has died. Ireland has become an imperialist joke.. an EU state of puppets, more interested in immigration and Brussels. Ireland as a state has died, and the likes of Gusty is needed. I say that because we need working class people from both sides, more interested in the rights of the people who where born and bred on this island to flourish and live in peace

[@jameslarkin8494]

The man who started the Troubles..Geordie Orr and Billy Mitchell,as his co-accused.

[@ATLmodK]

I respect Gusty Spence for his apology to the loved ones of innocent Catholics killed in the Troubles. On the other hand he started that trend, as he was tried and convicted for the murder of innocent Catholics

[@Tommyshoeshine999]

Great uploads keep it up

[@migspit]

The guy at 7.45 has the worst mask I have ever seen

[@andrewsteele2648]

Shame they don't make them like that no more Rip gusty s For God and ulster, At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them no surrender not now not ever

[@jamesoneill2933]

Will that be all of ulster then ?

[@Jack.Doughnut]

Modern Loyalism is totally devoid of men of character, gone are the days of decent men like Gusty and David Ervine. Now we're left with the likes of Sammy Wilson, Paisley jr and Jamie fucking Bryson. An awful state of affairs. I say that as a nationalist and a believer in a united Ireland.

[@RedMachineKieran]

i agree, as a former republican, and Catholic

[@RedMachineKieran]

and i also love how he paid his respects to a working class Catholic soldier in arms, the opposite of him

[@irvy78]

He paid his respect to Joe McCann as joe ordered his release from the officials after uvf stole arms from the officials and he was kept till said arms got returned and the soldier of the people order he b sent home safe??? He would of danced at jors grave for saving his life,, learn about facts before spewing? Just a thought

[@oneteaminbristolbcfc]

Never involved in the UVF… but as senior officer in jail, I was in charge of the wing😂😂😂😂😂

[@patrickjm3487]

Tell ya what this man avoided every question he was asked and answered everything his own way without letting anything slip very intelligent man have to say that!! I v also heard he saved a lot of life’s

[@michaelahern6821]

He took a few innocent too...

[@davidmcclymont6326]

Great man who stood proud and a hero of Ulster

[@jamesoneill2933]

Which part?

[@LiamBelfast]

Post office thief

[@davidmcclymont6326]

@@LiamBelfast who didn't Rob a post office back then

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@davidmcclymont6326 Thievery has been part and parcel of these people's 'culture ' since the 1500s hence being , shat , out of Britain in the plantation of Ulster. They ( reivers) were a , for the best part , nomadic demographic having frequently to ,flit, either side of the English/Scottish border. Many of the most , wanted, for rustling was a hanging matter ,took to the high seas as an escape, where their criminal proclivities found a new aquatic home in piracy. Eventually James the first of England , a Scot , hit upon the idea of , shipping them out , wholesale, to Ulster ,where their' talents ' could be utilised in support of the murderous garrisons already situated there. Not a man , woman, child nor presumably a post office has been safe since.

[@LiamBelfast]

@@davidmcclymont6326 non terrorists

[@jamesoneill2933]

Why does he speak ye olde time talk ? Was that considered highbrow in the Shankill?

[@josephyearwood1179]

Interesting comment. In what way does he speak odd?

[@PK-fk7bm]

There is no highbrow in The Shankill! They are the lowest of the low! 👍👊🇮🇪

[@MiloManning05]

@@PK-fk7bmtrue

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@PK-fk7bm There's a line I heard in the 80's movie Mississippi burning , spoken by Gene Hackman's character, in the context of the black/Jew hating Klansmen, his father reasoned that , "Son if you ain't no better than a nxxxxx , who is you better than ?" Inserting Fenian for the offensive N term and we have , what I feel is the sentiment, of the Reivers and an insight to the mentality of the Shankill demographic.

[@leegreenhalgh6677]

Why do want him giving it the bruv n talking like some kid off an estate in London...

[@acorndogs904]

Your busy uploading today

[@NorthernIrelandConflictVideos]

Clearing out some memory in my phone bud lol, the copyright police are out in force

[@acorndogs904]

@@NorthernIrelandConflictVideos oh jesus

[@acorndogs904]

@@NorthernIrelandConflictVideos no marty o hagan videos going spare I like the wind a few up with once a provo always a provo

[@johnshooter4763]

Who are cr police? BBC?

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@acorndogs904 Are 'U' enjoying your seaborder ? Perhaps you prefer the 'Von Windsor framework' instead ? All's well that ends well, for now anyway.

[@youser1093]

His Sun glasses are wonky they don't fit him

[@heyzus]

Spent over a month in the crumlin road prision hospital shitting himself and on valium in case he was going to hang.Brave man?

[@jamesoneill2933]

It's like he read fourteen pages of Das Capital then got fed up.

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

As opposed to the half a paragraph that you exasperatedly crawled through ? 😂

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@albertarthurparsnips5141, Please cease and desist with all this hostility , haven't you heard, there's a new dispensation, we've all moved on. Hands across the seaborder and all that. 😉

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

Hostility ? 😮 ‘tis never a ‘hostile’ act to act in defence of the right & lawful Crown in the face of the eternal threat from hostile forces ! Nay ! We will not have home rule ! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@albertarthurparsnips5141 Incredible, time travel is a reality then.

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@albertarthurparsnips5141 🇮🇪🖐️🖐️🇬🇧

[@brighterrecorder1645]

Anyone believe he had no involvement in Paddy Ward's murder?

[@michaelahern6821]

Only the loyalists...he always denied it...but...in denying it he also never even said it was somebody else( he didn't even have to name anyone) so.......Ward's folks never had any doubt...think I read something bout the RUC telling Ward's mother it was him..

[@brighterrecorder1645]

@@michaelahern6821 I think that smile he let out when the story was read to him showed he was guilty. Not that he took any pride in it but like he had just been caught out and embarrassed by it. Just my own opinion

[@michaelahern6821]

@@brighterrecorder1645 And till the day he died he always denied it....he was as much to blame as Paisley for fanning the flames...

[@keithcrawford2229]

@@michaelahern6821 well hears one for you Michael ahern n this is a ture very ture well I don't know we're your from N plus I don't really give a fuck anyway who is the only person that was asked to join The IRA because he knew what was going on behind closed doors and u own have one answer n help allowed

[@keithcrawford2229]

How was Mr P WARD murdered

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

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[@michaelahern6821]

""Condemned of something that was never proved"....good one that woman ...she isn't the brightest...

[@Tommyshoeshine999]

Money for guns,explosives etc but no money for decent masks.. im sure a seen a pair of pants with eyeholes cut-out

[@michaelahern6821]

They couldn't even use scissors...it was like they were handcuffed....lol

[@keithcrawford2229]

He was a good member of staff

[@jameslarkin8494]

He wasn't in the UVF so he claims

[@keithcrawford2229]

That's like Adams ketp on saying not he was never in the R A fucking lies and n sure Sammy Wilson was near seen in the nude until the Sunday world got him too the big mouth gobshit no tax no mot n no insurance no wonder he was caught

[@keithcrawford2229]

@@jameslarkin8494 why did you know gusty spence is n will also be one of the best men who was proud to be a member of first battion shankill road For GOD N ULSTER

[@Thecraftsman1912]

​@@jameslarkin8494 he never once claimed he wasn't in the uvf

[@jameslarkin8494]

@@Thecraftsman1912 He did when he was interviewed,when he was taken hostage [ so called] by the uvf,

[@keithcrawford2229]

For god and Ulster

[@michaelahern6821]

God doesn't have much time for people who shoot unarmed people dead for no reason...then hide behind it saying its a war... murder is murder

[@MiloManning05]

Yawn

[@michaelahern6821]

@@MiloManning05 That the best you can do ...give your fingers a rest if you can't contribute...

[@MiloManning05]

@@michaelahern6821 yawn

[@michaelahern6821]

I love the way the loyalists love playing at being toy soldiers and come in their trousers when they join the British army ..only to be sent to the front as cannon fodder.. ....like Toby jugs on a mantelpiece...

[@alanjackthomson5454]

GUSTY ZPENCE IS NOT GUILTY TO ANY CHARGES AND HE IS STILL NOT GUILTY FROM BRIDGETON CROSS GUSTY IS STILL NOT GUILTY OFF ANY CHARGES PROVE THEM NOW

[@jamesoneill2933]

The RUC , it is true , when it came to loyalists, would often craft statements which bordered on ludicrous thus with a competent brief they would invariably walk. Or as in the case of the Glenanne gang , comprising of UVF, UDR AND RUC members were convicted of lesser charges and give sentences which a shoplifter would laugh at.

[@jamesoneill2933]

Vol Joe Mc Cann RIP engaged in armed combat against an overwhelmingly greater , in terms of numbers , trained and equipped , army of occupation , Spence killed a wee boy not long out of school.

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@williamacheson8188 What does that mean , respond ?

[@williamacheson8188]

@@jamesoneill2933 That overwhelming greater, in terms of numbers, trained and equipped army was called upon by your lot ? Don't forget that. Cups of tea lads.. how about some sandwiches and buns!!

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@williamacheson8188 Republicans such as Joe Cahill, Joe McCann and Martin Meehan foretold what would unfold , that the loyalist pogroms upon the nationalist population would abate ,then the British army and government would assume the role of the RUC who had ran amok in Belfast and Derry , the same army and government who had installed the entire same shambles in the first place. I would imagine it would be akin to asking the Kray twins to protect you from doctor Crippen. Ordinary nationalists stood to be murdered in their home for having the temerity to want equality , and would have turned to Satan himself for protection, with hindsight they'd have been better off.

[@williamacheson8188]

@@jamesoneill2933 You are clearly drilled in exploitation techniques with rhetoric like foretold, abate, what did you expect with their deployment to Ulster. As for the RUC all they did during the Derry rioting in 69 was charging with baton and throwing the stones that had been thrown at them. It's very mild tactics when you look at Rwanda, Ukraine etc? Bernadette, the so called savour wanted Catholics in Belfast, to stretch the RUC beyond It's limits, which led to Bombay Street and other Catholics who lived on Protestants Streets burned out. Catholics could easily have gotten equal rights without the bombs and guns.The problems Catholics had was they wanted a fight, Provisionals emerged and did terrible things to their own people Scappaticci, who was a serial killer! What did these so called great men like Joe and Martin foresee? Did the British army clear out once the province was save. Yes, but along comes Omagh bombing try thinking outside the box. Rather than words people used decades ago. From 69 right up to 72 Catholics had their No go areas, pogroms? that was in the 20s? just to educate a rhetoric drilled individual. It wasn't until 72 Protestants got sectarian particularly Bloody Friday. Of course you also had the term the Protestants "backlash' in the media 3 and half years, Catholics had gained political advantages but it became apparent they wanted British Protestants who were poor and suffering like their Catholic neighbours out and a United Ireland was what it was all about? 2023 here we are still carrying the British money in are pockets. And yes a do have the blue passport. Proud. God save the king!!!

[@jamesoneill2933]

@@williamacheson8188 Are you claiming that Samuel Devenny faked his own murder ?