Talk:Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)
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[edit] Thank you Drudge.
We will be sure that history records what Ms. Williams said about killing Bush.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lorus77 (talk • contribs).
These quotes, included as they are, by taking the two most inflammatory phrases out-of-context and seperating them by ellipses, does nothing to inform the reader and seems like a sensationalist attempt to paint her in the worst possible light. Ashmoo 23:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- What a cop out. Everytime a liberal gets caught with their pants down, it's always "taken out of context". Give me a break. I listened a sound clip of her comments....believe me...she MEANT what she said. --Rambone (Talk) 03:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, I've read her comments in context, she is another person who apparently claims to teach tolerance of others, yets advocates the killing of those she disagrees with. I'd like to ask her about all the people and kids Saddam Hussein murdered. Of course in her world it apparently never happened, not even enough for her to mention it.
- Amen. Not to mention the entire city of men, women, AND children that he had wiped out and the city removed from the maps. The simple act of saying the phrase at all, regardless of the context (I don't really know any other context where one would say such a thing and mean anything else), should make the committee re-evaluate the way they choose the people to award the Peace prize to. It's appalling. People such as she are the kind who cause far more problems than they ever solve, no matter how high profile their solutions may be. She's an embarrasment to we Irish.Posala
I think it would be appropriate to at least give her entire statement. There's really no need for the ellipses, neither space or succinctness warrants them. That quip about U.S. law possibly being applied to an Irish woman speaking in Australia seems trite and partisan as well.
- By all means go ahead and put up the entire statement. What she said would be acrime in US. At least that should be clear. I think it is safe to say that she will not be visitng teh States any time soon. --Lorus77
- If you read the Wikipedia article, it states that Betty Williams was married to a US citizen and now lives in Texas, which makes her a US resident and generally subject to US law. The law in question is not explicity limited in its scope to the geographical constraints of the US. I have restored the statement of the violation of US law because it is relevant. Making threats to kill someone is generally a crime, and making threats to kill the President of the US is specifically a crime, particularly when you live in and under the protection of the same country. We can't gloss this over, sorry. The reader can read the context of the speech and make up her mind.Kevinp2 14:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
