show us where in the sources it says he was beaten by british soldiers and required stitches it says no such thing and you know it note that the other piece one night in hackney re instated was apparently an implication that ira beatings resulting in confessions were justified note to all admins this is the belief system we are dealing with here there is no liberalism no discussion of ideas none of the bedrocks on which wikipedia is built apparently in the republican vision of wikipedia confessions produced by torture are fine and believable