Do you believe it wrong for the Army to beat youths while searching them (assuming this allegation is true), but that it is somehow OK for terrorists like the...
Steve Could you provide any evidence from the Ulster Nation site or list to back up these claims / smears? The list has over 80 members from a wide range of...
... Steve, is this debate about religious differences or about political views? Thanks, Elizabeth In peaceinnorthernireland@yahoogroups.com, "steve diy" ... to...
... Well stated, Paul. That has been my observation also. Total double standard where the republican socialists are concerned. The eternal victims they seek to...
Both really I guess. ... From: celtictygress To: peaceinnorthernireland@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Peace in Northern...
... Steve You're talking about me and you're only half right. I was a member of the official National Front, most recently from 1986 to 1990. I am not now...
Thomas McElwee was born on the 30th of November in 1957 in the parish of Bellaghy in South Derry. He was the fifth of twelve children. He held close ties...
... last ... Two questions if I may. 1. Why do we not have hunger strikers now? 2. Is 'Irish freedom' closer or further away now as a result of the Good...
... Summary: McElwee was about to plant a bomb, but lost an eye when it exploded (from his point of view) prematurely. He killed a woman, and later took his ...
... We could recommend some volunteers...perhaps from the INLA. NI could use some more psuedo martyrs. And it would eliminate some more murderers. E ... In...
... Some of the variant IRAs seem intent on repeating the idiocies of the past - including dirty protests for "political" status or some such. Perhaps they'll...
Yes, god bless all of the victims of the Troubles, regardless of the side or nationality. Sectarianism can not be accepted in remembering the Troubles. Why...
... All of this is true from a predictably twisted Unionist standpoint. The deaths of the hungerstrikers pushed forward the legitimacy of Sinn Fein in the...
... called ... Nice reference to Freud... The dirty protest is simple minded but imagine yourself as a prison officer having to deal with that every day, all...
... That's true. We had one in here a while back, and if anyone mentioned the wrong kind of socialism, we got a *long* digression on socialist theology. I'm...
Sean, You can dismiss Unionist viewpoints as "twisted", and in a sense I suppose unionists and nationalists do have a fundamentally different view of local ...
... well ... I suppose it must be quite difficult if you were one of the prisoners released under the Agreement. I mean what do you do? Do you renounce...
... as ... behind ... It's too late for me to start looking up election results but wasn't there a surge of support for Sinn Féin and then didn't it decline ...
I support the basic structure of socialism in the democratic sense but you will definitely not be receiving a longwinded recitation of Marx and Engels. As a...
... There are a comparable number of nationalist families with maimed, widows and orphaned members of their community. The Troubles left no people unaffected....
In reading a number of former prisoners books, I have found that most who served long prison terms find there way out of the military sector and set themselves...
You are correct that there was a surge after the hungerstrikes for supporting SF and that it eventually declined. This decline was in part attributed to the...
... "The dirty protest is simple minded but imagine yourself as a prison ... Of course not! It is similar to a two-year old child's tantrum. Of course you...
Paul, can't you see you do the exact same thing when you make cute little changes to headers like "remember yer man"? You seem to be implying that only the...
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... olds? Some of those thugs would surprise you with their intelligence. To call them idiotic is to be presumptuous and assinine. Perhaps you should...
... But perhaps you can see how someone might think that refusing to wipe up afterwards might be considered a childish way of making a point. Especially if...