Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Northern Ireland: does it want to seceed? Message-ID: <690@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:35:19 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.690 Posted: Fri Dec 7 02:35:19 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:29:27 EST References: <307@bonnie.UUCP> <1087@pyuxa.UUCP> <1168@ihuxm.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.flame:7144 net.politics:6176 > = Terry Bermes > T. C. Wheeler refers to the IRA as a bunch of yellow-bellied terrorists. > No, I disagree. While I do have problems with some of their tactics, I feel > that they certainly have a legitimate cause. No one considered the French > resistance underground to be a group of terrorists as they tried to expel > an unwanted occupancy. If England refused to leave Northern Ireland, then > the Irish have a right to take their war (and it is a war) to England's > home front. Agreed it is a minority of the Northern Irish who want to be > independent of England, but it was also a minority of American colonists > who also wanted their independence. This sort of logic can be used to justify perpetual revolution. According to some English acquantances, not only is the IRA a terrorist minority, but Ireland (the Real one) really doesn't support the IRA or care to absorb Northern Ireland. According to them, it is the US-Irish who show the most support for the IRA -- people completely detached from the realities of Anglo- Irish politics. If the Northern Ireland Catholics were really oppressed, why is it only the IRA who seems to notice it? Northern Ireland is not exactly a South Africa, is it? Please no arguments or counterflames from the original "Disinformation Propaganda on ABC-TV" author. His credibility has been shot to hell already. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!gam 37 22'50" N / 121 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ] [ Note longitude correction; I am no longer in the Pacific Ocean ]