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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
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Subject: Re: Northern Ireland: does it want to seceed?
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> = 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.
-- 
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