On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:06:43 +0100, "Falcon"
 wrote:

>
>Westprog wrote:
>
>> "Falcon"  wrote in message
>> news:fei3lr$772$1@aioe.org...
>>>
>>> Nik wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:38:10 +0100, "Westprog" 
>>>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> Now that the thirty year war to establish a police omsbudsman is at an
>>>>> end,
>>>>
>>>> Tell me please, Westie, what you would have done if you were one of
>>>> the Bombay Street residents in 1969.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> He's British at heart. He would have bombed Dresden.
>>
>> I suggest Nik would do well to research how Martin Luther King reacted
>> when the KKK blew up a church and killed a number of small girls. (Hint -
>> he didn't ask Canada to ship him guns).
>
>The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was inspired by the 
>African-American Civil Rights Movement. However there is little evidence to 
>suggest that the AACCRM regularly employed gunmen to fire on police officers 
>or soldiers during riots, or considered mounting a 30-year bombing campaign 
>to achieve their aims. The IRA terror campaign was never about civil rights 
>and it was never about Bombay Street.

Because their methods differed, along with their circumstances it
invalidates your conclusion that the IRA campaign was never about
civil rights or Bombay St because it damn well was.

Nik

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