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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (37670)	11/20/2001 10:25:50 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So, do you do things which you know will get you savagely beaten, probably killed, and possibly your family also targeted for reprisals too? From principle? With you not equipped to fight back in any meaningful way? These aren't guesses, BTW. This is what the IRA do. You will die if you say that in the wrong area, to the wrong person. I don't think you'll find many soldiers do this in NI. They probably think that way, or worse (I know some of them do). And they're even armed and trained to fight, which I'm not. But, like me, they're not mindless zealots bent on pointless principle to the point of idiocy. BTW, I have said that or very similar to people professing to support them. I have no idea if they were/are members... I do rather doubt it. It still doesn't mean I fancy being kneecapped and then shot, and having my home firebombed (with or without family inside). I don't prance up to a madman wielding a gun and call him mad. This is why I've survived. And, as you may have guessed, I could care less if you call it cowardice. You've already proved you don't know what the word means. (Of course, come back to me when you've finished biting the testicles off an unrestrained pit bull - having allowed it to get a corresponding grip on yours at the same time - and I'll naturally apologise and allow your right to term me a coward. I'll reserve my right to call you a demented eunuch.)