Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:51 am
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Maybe they should be exiled to an island somewhere. I don't think Australia want them any more than we do though, so we'll have to find somewhere else.
johnm wrote:Martyrs are certainly more powerful than prisoners and expecting any sort of rational behaviour from terrorists is a bit pointless.
Paul_Sengupta wrote:Maybe they should be exiled to an island somewhere. I don't think Australia want them any more than we do though, so we'll have to find somewhere else.
romille wrote:Not sure I agree as whilst Mr Sands was alive and on hunger strike there were reports from outside the Maze on every news bulletin, once he expired and was buried the whole news frenzy went away and he became old news. He was probably forgotten by the majority of the population on both sides of the political divide, who had their daily lives to get on with.
nallen wrote:Apart from the huge mural of him that adorns the Falls Road to this day, you mean, not to mention the streets named after him, etc., etc.
johnm wrote:Well no not really.
He was ALWAYS going to be a martyr on the Falls Rd. To the rest of us he was newsworthy because of his outlandish behaviour, in the same way that Farage and others on the political fringe are newsworthy, but ultimately he and others, like McGuiness and Adams, came to realise that they stood a better chance of achieving their aims through relatively civilised means as the terrorist approach was doomed to failure because no-one was prepared to be terrorised.
Lindsayp wrote:Is Treason still on the statutes and is the penalty still death?
There is just no comparison between Irish Republicans an IS, Mr Adams and his mates want a United Ireland, IS want to exterminate everyone on the planet that is not a Muslim who agrees with their interpretation of Islam. Even their modus operandi are different in that the IRA were generally after the security forces, quite often gave warnings of bombs and were not prepared to commit suicide to further their aims.
johnm wrote:I'm not prepared to allow the barstewards to make me compromise my standards of civilised behaviour, sorry.