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In article , Baz wrote:
My dad had to serve in N.I and lost his life with 1RGJ in 1982 Please do not advise me about provos, I suspect you have read a few newspapers and stuff regarding Bobby Sands and hunger strikes. Hughes etc. You suppose wrong. If you want to learn how people with your attitude turned a soluble political problem into the civil war it became, you really should read "Voices From The Grave". I knew what was happening at the time, from contemporary reports, but obtaining them now would be very hard work (assuming they still exist). Oh, and the period was 1968 to 1972. After the government accepted the Widgery Report, the problem was no longer soluble without major bloodshed. The situation in England today is not comparable, but it IS very comparable with that which caused the rise of Malcolm X, the Black Panthers etc. The real danger, here and now, is that disaffected people of the calibre of those in the Baader Meinhof gang will get involved (e.g. the unemployed graduates who realise that their debts will buy them nothing). And a hybrid of those two is not nice to contemplate. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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