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SubjectRe: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in Eng
FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-23 22:23 (2002-04-23 21:23)
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FollowupsMike Scott Rohan (1d, 15h & 27m) > David Flood
"?jevind L?ng" <ojevind.lang@swipnet.se>wrote in message news:gKbx8.2369$iB4.6820@nntpserver.swip.net...

?jevind L?ng
Mike Scott Rohan wrote:

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Mike Scott Rohan
To judge by previous exchanges here, you needn't apologise too profusely. The current line for extremist republicans is "Of course I don't approve of the IRA's methods, *but*..." That routine denial made, they're free to parrot the IRA version of history, invented to greenwash those methods. All carefully obscuring one awkward little truth -- the IRA's means and the IRA's ends are one and the same. Terrorist weapons kill completely innocent people, because they're meant to; they don't work otherwise. But speaking that magic line transforms these people from blinkered racist fanatics to saddened observers. In their mirrors, anyhow; and they're not given to looking anywhere else.

?jevind L?ng
Agreed. Also (to tie onto another extremist contention), shooting a policeman or a soldier in the back is, in my book, just as much an act of terrorism as detonating a bomb in a pub or a supermarket or at an open-air concert.

And you know... what, exactly, about terrorists, revolutionaries and guerillas? Come on; we missed your wisdom from the Palestinian/Israeli threads, so let's have it.

What does greenwash mean, by the way?

Buggered if I know, snookums. I expect that it's a word he made up to show off his vastly superior brainpower.

D.

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