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Non-Tech : Deflation
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (92)9/9/2002 10:23:24 AM
From: AC Flyer  Read Replies (2) of 621
 
Hi JF Q:

I can tell you from personal experience that this is right on. The IRA are (were?) an unsavory collection of opportunistic criminals and sociopaths. Some had personal grievances caused by the "troubles", others did not. The US press somehow never gave much attention to the fact that, before the dollars started flowing across the Atlantic to the IRA "freedom fighters" that the IRA was at least as proficient at robbing banks in the Republic of Ireland as it was at planting bombs.

After the dollars started to flow, these guys discovered they were riding the gravy train. Then it was economics 101 in action - you subsidize something (in this case terrorism/freedom fighting, take your pick) you get more of it.
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