Bomber boys - bbc one

[winny]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

right, so according to your arm-twisting logic, it would be ok to have a statue of Gary Glitter for his "musical achievements"?

Do you even hear how ludicrous what you're saying is?
Last time I checked in the encyclopaedia of common sense, a full figure statue was meant as a celebrative form reserved for men that acted for the good of their own country, contributing in some substantial, determining and above all exemplar way.

And still you like to hide behind the curtain of "stop bashing the Brits you ungrateful bugger!".. if I made the statement about Hitler's statue that Hood did, god knows what you would have accused me of..


a waxwork that has been the object of many critics and damage apparently.. I don't think it's a good idea, especially when people take pictures with it.. it's twisted and resembles how light heartedly some people take the whole matter, turning one of the most twisted dictators of history into a tourist attraction is despicable.


you always have to generalise. It's not like the whole UK agrees about that statue as you know, that's my point. I just find it intolerable, like I wouldn't like a statue of Mussolini, Pol-Pot, Bin Laden etc...

You're comparing Harris to Bin-laden? That's a little extreme...

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by winny

You're comparing Harris to Bin-laden? That's a little extreme...

well maybe, but there's a lot of people out there that still thinks he did a great deal of good to human kind

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by winny

You're comparing Harris to Bin-laden? That's a little extreme...

+1 ... a rather thoughtless comparison indeed. (Can't believe this thread is still going ... oops, I'm partly to blame )

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

+1 ... a rather thoughtless comparison indeed. (Can't believe this thread is still going ... oops, I'm partly to blame )

it is if you keep on looking at things with a Western perspective..

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

it is if you keep on looking at things with a Western perspective..

one of the most pointless statements yet hits the Nail on the head, you keep demanding people look at things from another perspective, you are failing to look at things from others perspectives yourself, all this 'self righteous tirade' stuff you keep bringing up, you are failing to view it from a Brits perspective.....I wonder why
if only Bin Laden looked at things from a Western perspective and we looked at things from a Middle Eastern perspective......what total rubbish, never changes the fact we are Western and Bin Laden is Middle Easten....what...once we take a minute to think about each others situation there will be world peace....oh puhlease!!!

I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about all this 'history is written by the winners', blah blah.....Britain has nothing to be ashamed of, nobody will 'ever' have a spotless record in their conducts in events like wars, Harris is a dark smudge on ours, personally I couldn't care less if we have a statue of him or not, as long as the bravery of the crews is still represented in some way.

Once again, and I'll make it bold so hopefully it will stay: it's not a general attack to the UK, it's finding controversial and unnecessarily provocative to raise a full body monument to Bomber Harris and trying to make it more acceptable by dedicating it to the Bomber Command, it's like making a fullsize monument in the shape of the A-Bomb and dedicating it to the USAAF.

I will answer in bold too 'it was the veterans of Bomber command that approved a Harris statue!'

I suggest you go find an old bomber command veteran and tell him what you think.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

one of the most pointless statements yet hits the Nail on the head, you keep demanding people look at things from another perspective, you are failing to look at things from others perspectives yourself, all this 'self righteous tirade' stuff you keep bringing up, you are failing to view it from a Brits perspective.....I wonder why
if only Bin Laden looked at things from a Western perspective and we looked at things from a Middle Eastern perspective......what total rubbish, never changes the fact we are Western and Bin Laden is Middle Easten....what...once we take a minute to think about each others situation there will be world peace....oh puhlease!!!

..you should seriously consider changing your nickname to "word-twister". The whole point is that you can ONLY see this topic with a self-righteous point of view, and as soon as somebody makes a valid point and questions how Area Bombing was against the Geneva convention and morally awful (other than useless), you cry "but they did it too!!!". SO?! We all know what the Nazis did, we're not questioning that, we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy, so much that you feel entitled to erect a statue as memory of it. Don't you REALLY see the twisted logic in this?!

I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about all this 'history is written by the winners', blah blah.....Britain has nothing to be ashamed of, nobody will 'ever' have a spotless record in their conducts in events like wars, Harris is a dark smudge on ours, personally I couldn't care less if we have a statue of him or not, as long as the bravery of the crews is still represented in some way.

History IS written by the winners, if you don't even accept that then there's no point in carrying on with this conversation. And the bravery of the crews is not represented by a statue of Harris! It wasn't Harris that sat in those bombers at night, he was comfortably sitting in his office giving orders.

I will answer in bold too 'it was the veterans of Bomber command that approved a Harris statue!'

I suggest you go find an old bomber command veteran and tell him what you think.

naaaah, get your facts right man. It's the Arthur Harris Trust that did it, and they got support from the vets because they cunningly presented it as the sole Bomber Command memorial. I completely agree about the new monument for Bomber Command for instance, but not the Harris one, capisc'?!

As for what the vets think: I'm sure you know that there are SS vets that still think they were doing the right thing, so what shall we make of that?

[bongodriver]

..you should seriously consider changing your nickname to "word-twister". The whole point is that you can ONLY see this topic with a self-righteous point of view, and as soon as somebody makes a valid point and questions how Area Bombing was against the Geneva convention and morally awful (other than useless), you cry "but they did it too!!!". SO?! We all know what the Nazis did, we're not questioning that, we're wondering why the crimes that YOU committed are more tolerable than the ones of the enemy, so much that you feel entitled to erect a statue as memory of it. Don't you REALLY see the twisted logic in this?!

Youre doing some pretty good 'self righteous' yourself, you just arent taking anybody elses views on board.
I don't cry anything, nor did 'I' commit any war crimes, I don't 'twist' any words, I relay what I have processed your words to mean.

We all know what the Nazis did, we're not questioning that

I have noticed....

History IS written by the winners, if you don't even accept that then there's no point in carrying on with this conversation. And the bravery of the crews is not represented by a statue of Harris! It wasn't Harris that sat in those bombers at night, he was comfortably sitting in his office giving orders.

it does not necessarily mean that that history is all lies....like you seem to imply.
Harris did his time in service in the first war, he was a fighter ace, I don't begrudge an old vet the time spent behind the desk giving orders, yes I know Hitler was a vet too, but Hitler had a penchant for murdering Jews and starting wars, I don't think Harris would have had the opportunity to do what he did without Hitlers contribution, so Harris is only partially responsible for what happened.

naaaah, get your facts right man. It's the Arthur Harris Trust that did it, and they got support from the vets because they cunningly presented it as the sole Bomber Command memorial. I completely agree about the new monument for Bomber Command for instance, but not the Harris one, capisc'?!

if you say so.

As for what the vets think: I'm sure you know that there are SS vets that still think they were doing the right thing, so what shall we make of that?

irrelevant......

[bongodriver]

Stern.....a little insight as to why I might get miffed by your statements.


episode 1) The Battle of Britain thread, it set the benchmark for all of your subsequent anti British contributions, because it was the first one I saw myself, the may have been many more previously.

Your points:

1. Not really a battle
2. Not really a victory for Britain (wording you used: not a defeat for LW) either way it was underplaying any achievement by the British.
3. not really very signifficant event in WWII
4. some other generic pap some others spout about how the LW were so terribly disadvantaged it was easy for the Brits anyway.
5. the Americans really won it for us because they SOLD us food and fuel and ammo.
6.History is written by the winners so everything we know about it is a lie but only you know the real truth.
7. you somehow needed to bring Op Market garden into the question to highlight general British incompetency.
8. Britain is nothing but a bunch of colonialist and nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.

episode 2) North Africa, I forget which thread it was involved in.

your points:

1. Not really a battle because it was easy for the Brits with a numerical advantage (see points 1,2,3,4 above and merge them)
2. The Americans won it for us by SELLING us food, ammo and eventually getting involved.
3. somehow Op Market garden was brought up again to highlight British incompetency and in particular Montgommery's.
4. History is written by the winners so everything everyone else know is just a lie but only you know the real truth.
5. Britain is just a bunch of colonialist and Nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.

episode 3) this thread, an innocent link to a bbc programme about bomber command which you even agreed was objective and unbiassed, yet somehow you managed to drag us down another one of these roads because you couldn't help trying to remind everyone the British are just war criminals.

your points:

1. Britain are war criminals.
2. We built a statue to prove it.
3. History is written by the winners so everything we know about it is a lie but only you know the real truth.
4. Britain is just a bunch of colonialist and Nationalist pigs with a sense of self righteousness which is why we keep resisting your version of the truth.
5. Britain should hand over the Falklands?

what it shows me:

you don't really think very highly of us......but that's ok because you said you like the UK and you live here.


can you see 'MY' point now? so forgive me if I get a little sensitive, it's just you seem ever prepared to take anything dear to the Brits and rip it to shreds at any given opportunity.
you can tell me I've exaggerated it and twisted your words all you like but everything I mentioned 'is' something you said and I am just telling you what it sounds like to me.

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

it is if you keep on looking at things with a Western perspective..

Amazing logic! If I look at this with an Eastern, Southern or Northern perspective, it is STILL a thoughtless comparison.