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David Flood
SubjectRe: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of
FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-17 19:24 (2002-04-17 18:24)
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"paulh" <paulh@fahncahn.com>wrote in message news:btcrbusilqsjma1kmh3oqjom9i90ele6j9@4ax.com...

paulh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:39:10 +0100, "David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote:

of 'civilians' vs combatants.. SO what ratio needs to be aspired to for

David Flood
THIS

paulh
then? Perhaps if the Loyalist Paramilitaries kill more 'combatants'

then

David Flood
you'll

paulh
be happy to take them off the list of 'Terrorists'.. What a pathetic excuse to justify terrorism..

David Flood
I guess it depends greatly on your personal point of view - who you

consider

guerillas/revolutionaries/freedom fighters, and who terrorists.

paulh
yes... there is always that. I'm sure some people find the IRA/INLA..ect

to be

freedom fighters and some think the various UDA/UFF forces to also be

freedom

fighters. I can only speak for my opinion that they are all terrorists...

(And some would consider certain BA units which 'handle' the Loyalists to be undoubtedly terrorists, from what has emerged into public knowledge in the past decade)

To move this to a deeper level of debate - are they (the paramilitaries) the cause or merely the symptom of yet another bloody episode in British colonial history?

D.

paulh (1h & 39m)