Re: A year of living dangerously


"Gerry Doyle" <alacrity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "William A. T. Clark" <clark.31@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > In article <Xns96C2A32DF915Chmhawktooyahoocom@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > hmhawktoo <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > "... the IRA had no overall policy of specifically targetting non
> > > > combattant innocents." - SCI: hmhawktoo

> > > Absolutely correct. Here are the facts, once again, for you to try to
> > > ignore:-

> > > Of all those killed by the IRA 33% were innocent civilians.

> > > Of those killed by unionism' legally armed wing. 50% were innocent
> > > civilians.

> > > Of those killed by unionism' illegally armed wing 89% were innocent
> > > civilians

> > > Simple fact. desperately scrabbling about for an article from someone
of
> > > Lawson's calibre doesn't alter those facts. Not one bit. Not an inch.
> > > Not an
> > > iota. Sorry for you Fal*** old spud. Yet another feeble attempt
downed.
> > > *sigh*

> > So only killing 33% innocent civilians is OK, then? Nice morality you
> > espouse.

> It's all just shitty wordplay, no "overall" policy, not "specifically"
> targetting, non-combatant "innocents" presumably as distinguished from
> guilty noncombatants, and whoop de fuckin doo, only 1 in 3 of those
killed
> were "innocent" civilians and all packaged in kill rate percentages
instead
> of actual numbers, include only the IRA in one total, while lumping all
the
> other lot together. Who decided their innocence or guilt, I'm sure they'd
> all have appreciated even the dubious justice of a Colombian star chamber
in
> comparison.

> This is the kind of arse covering doublespeak that would even embarrass a
> Haughey cabinet member, a sick and hypocritical massaging of figures that
> really does show how stats can be nothing but damn lies.

The big fact - that the IRA killed more people than everyone else put
together - is a bit too indigestible for Hmhawktoo. It doesn't fit with the
idea that the loyalists and the Brits are to blame for everything. He'll
brush that pile of bodies under the carpet and not think about it. He'll
remember every catholic burned out or murdered by the army or police or
loyalists, but the vast number who suffered because of the IRA will be
concealed behind "no overall policy".

It's part of the sickness of NI that people regard any attack on "their"
paramilitaries as an attack on them. That's why politicians (apart, usually
from the SDLP and Alliance) are reluctant to speak out against even the most
disgusting behaviour. They know that when their constituents hear it, it
sounds like an attack on them.

So when loyalists set fire to a primary school, we might get some feeble
condemnation from the UUP MP. Or we might not.

J/

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