Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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I have this stupid running gag that I love beating to death. TW: drug use.
Often when my dirtbag friends or my dirtbag self feel the need to do drugs in public, like on the sidewalk or in front of the minimart, we’ll do something stupid like hide underneath a blanket or duck behind something. Everyone knows what we’re doing. Everyone knows what’s going on when the dirty drug addict puts a blanket over his head and
smokevapor billows out. And it’s actually legal to do drugs in public here. I mean I get it, I’m still too afraid of like, someone punching me to light up my “oil burner” in broad daylight. Though I fully believe in something an old dealer of mine once told me, right before we casually smoked some heroin in the park: if you just act like what your doing is normal, everything will be fine.So I have this horrible running joke I use. Two actually.
If I’m smoking with a friend, at some point I’ll say something like “Put this over your head, so it’s low key,” or “Yeah you gotta put that tarp over there, so it’s low key” or “Good idea, now it’s low key.”
If I see two dudes doing this (hiding under a blanket or smoking in a bathroom or something) I’ll be like YOU KNOW GOD CAN STILL SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING UNDER THERE/IN THERE. It has only failed to get a laugh out of someone maybe once.