On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Matt Johnston wrote: > >> Some of you will have seen that we've had two soldiers killed by >> dissident republicans and last night a police officer was shot dead. >> >> Looks like we're returning to the bad old days. > > I don't get it. I've been reading some accounts and it seems like: > 1) The vast majority of people want nothing to do with violence > 2) Everybody is convinced that this will inevitably bring back the > troubles. > > Now in the US there is always some random nut job willing to climb up > in a clock tower and start shooting people for some obscure cause. > It's just one of the risks of life like lightning strikes and > rattlesnake bites. Why do the people of Northern Ireland have no > confidence that they will catch these nuts and life will go on?
Because the truth is that there remains a significant minority of non-, or only partially reconciled people in NI who can easily be tipped back to the prejudices that allow the terrorism and organized crime to thrive ? _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
