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I just want you to know that your remarks are in really bad taste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warringt

I just want you to know that your remarks are in really bad taste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks In my lifetime (I'm 30, from Manchester), I lived through two bomb attacks a few miles away from my home, one in the centre of the City, and another in a nearby town in the main shopping street that killed two children. They didn't 'tend to attack military targets'; they were terrorists. Terrorism is either bad, or it isn't. Don't dress the IRA up as something they aren't so that you can sit on the fence.

CleanedStar 13y ago
And what was Drogheda, when the English massacred an entire town? Or shooting up the crowd in Croke Park? Or Bloody Sunday? The English have carried out terrorism against the Irish for centuries. It's an English war of choice. The English stole my family's land, gave it to settlers, and now English troops still march up and down Belfast. If you choose to go to war with a country and try to subjugate their people, expect the consequences. Don't cry that some of the war of your choice blew back to your homeland.
- pekk 13y ago
  You are literally justifying one attack on civilians in an unrelated place, by referring to earlier attacks on civilians by different people?
nailer 13y ago
I think the IRA harmed a lot of innocent people, harmed their own cause, and that bombing civilians, warning or not, should be condemned. However the poster did mention that warnings were given if bombs were placed near civilians and your own link for the Warrington bombs does confirm that. I also think if you played the loudest instrument on earth while marching in circles outside David Cameron's church you'd be arrested.
pessimizer 13y ago
Terrorism is not one thing, or even very well defined. The ANC were terrorists, the American revolutionaries were terrorists, and the Haganah were terrorists. Is it so black and white?

CleanedStar 13y ago

And what was Drogheda, when the English massacred an entire town? Or shooting up the crowd in Croke Park? Or Bloody Sunday? The English have carried out terrorism against the Irish for centuries. It's an English war of choice. The English stole my family's land, gave it to settlers, and now English troops still march up and down Belfast. If you choose to go to war with a country and try to subjugate their people, expect the consequences. Don't cry that some of the war of your choice blew back to your homeland.

pekk 13y ago
You are literally justifying one attack on civilians in an unrelated place, by referring to earlier attacks on civilians by different people?

nailer 13y ago

I think the IRA harmed a lot of innocent people, harmed their own cause, and that bombing civilians, warning or not, should be condemned. However the poster did mention that warnings were given if bombs were placed near civilians and your own link for the Warrington bombs does confirm that. I also think if you played the loudest instrument on earth while marching in circles outside David Cameron's church you'd be arrested.

pessimizer 13y ago

Terrorism is not one thing, or even very well defined. The ANC were terrorists, the American revolutionaries were terrorists, and the Haganah were terrorists. Is it so black and white?