Your parallel is off. Ireland itself was the "war" zone, which would be analogous to the US black sites in Afghanistan. You don't want the comparison. And civi

Your parallel is off. Ireland itself was the "war" zone, which would be analogous to the US black sites in Afghanistan. You don't want the comparison. And civil liberties in the mainland were nowhere near as bad as this stupid war on terror. The UK had internment without trial in the 1970s. The hunger strike episode was in the 1980s, and was started by people who had been tried and convicted. Not people being "rendered" illegally from other countries and certainly not random people handed in for bounty who never received trial. Finally, the internment episode, which shows the UK in the worst light, is documented in this link in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius The timeline is from 1971-1977. "Gitmo" has been going for twice that long already.