Google| Subject | Re: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in Eng |
| From | Mike Scott Rohan |
| Date | 2002-04-29 15:02 (2002-04-29 14:02) |
| Message-ID | <2002042914025071187@asgard.zetnet.co.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | paulh |
The message <9i4jcuoq0sak3ukr8r8pkt56ku7oc0sbin@4ax.com> from paulh <paulh@fahncahn.com>contains these words:
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paulhThat's sadly right, and when you think about it, it isn't so curious, it's sadly inevitable. Terrorists and their groupies are defending indefensible atrocities and rationalizing irrational hatreds, so they can't for a moment admit that any kind of objective criticism is even possible. It always has to come from their enemy, open or concealed. Only being a hundred per cent right could justify such atrocities. The moment they allowed even a possibility that might not be so, their entire rationale would collapse, because only outward self-righteousness -- whatever writhing mess of racial or political or other hatreds it conceals -- will support it. If there's even a possibility they could reasonably be wrong, they would be unjustified. Admit that one crack of rational daylight and their whole shadowy edifice of hates comes tumbling down. They can't do anything else; it's in the nature of the beast.
Curiosly enuf when I played the 'anti' line.. anti some Israeli 'actions' and anti 'IRA' 'freedom fighters' there was some assumption that I must therefore be supporting the Other Sides. It took quite a few posts for my viewpoint to sink in that I'm against both sides in 'wars of terror'. And that was probably the most telling assumption of the lot, that to be AGAINST one side you must be FOR the other, and thus the battle lines are drawn.....
That's why they continue to invoke centuries-old grievances, glossing over the equal or worse wrongs they themselves are committing today; that's why they twist more recent history into tortuous knots and conspiracy theories, and resort to shouting slogans and hysterical barrages of abuse when any of this is questioned. Anything so that they don't have to stop a minute and reason. And of course, as with the Israelis and the Palestinians, that happens on both sides, until the rights and wrongs are so entangled that their only hope would be to forget them and accept the present. Against my better judgement I hoped the IRA might actually be doing that, but it now seems likely that their ruling ideologues, at least, just treated the truce as one more tactical ploy to be milked for advantage -- encouraged, of course, by their murder groupies.
-- mike.scott.rohan@asgard.zetnet.co.uk
2002-03-30-
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