Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxm!sofo From: sofo@ihuxm.UUCP (Terry Bermes) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.tv,net.nlang.celts Subject: Re: Re: Propaganda/Disinformation Story to be Aired by NBC-TV Message-ID: <1168@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 09:35:47 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxm.1168 Posted: Wed Dec 5 09:35:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:12:09 EST References: <307@bonnie.UUCP> <1087@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.flame:7099 net.politics:6069 net.tv:2204 net.nlang.celts:161 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. Is the IRA spreading hatred? Or are they attempting to get the self-determination that we Americans take for granted. It is hatred that made a group like the IRA necessary. You can't deny rights to a portion of the population and then expect them to go along with it. Northern Irish Catholics must be granted the same rights as Protestants. Only then will this war cease. That this situation has arisen at all is indeed tragic. Terry Bermes