Roadcraft wrote:This decision has come at a time when the UK is facing a challenge unseen since the Second World War.
MGF wrote:Roadcraft wrote:This decision has come at a time when the UK is facing a challenge unseen since the Second World War.
A deeply political and wholly unsubstantiated assertion and one which many in 'UK society', sensibly in my view, disagree with.
Incidentally Bourgass was never convicted of any terrorist offence, indeed he was found not guilty by an Old Bailey jury.
The murder of DC Oakes is tragic. The murder of thousands of other police officers over the years is also tragic.
302 of the Royal Ulster Constabulary were killed in terrorist acts and yet people still claim the current terrorist threat is unprecedented.
The George Cross Committee who are charged with the duty of deciding on whether or not DC Oakes should receive a George Cross are being attacked, in my view, by people who don't understand what the GC is for.
"acts of the greatest heroism or the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger"
It is not a political award and the Committee should be commended for not devaluing it by using it as a political tool.
Accounts of what happened during the raid in which he was murdered undoubtedly show that he was very brave but so are many police officers who are murdered in the course of their duty.
I am not taking anything away from this tragic event and I agree with 7db that the George Cross Committee haven't either.
MGF wrote:Accounts of what happened during the raid in which he was murdered undoubtedly show that he was very brave but so are many police officers who are murdered in the course of their duty.
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