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Politics : Did the Great Experiment Fail? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (356)	2/4/2013 12:10:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 926

My opinion is too flimsy to be used as a final opinion. If I was seriously in charge of investigation I'd want to know more detail but if people are going to be so biased as to say "Innocent children were murdered by British soldiers", as though they were on a school picnic, it deserves a response to point out how absurd that is. The reason a couple of friendly Bobbies on the beat were not deployed to keep an eye on things was because it was totally clear that Murderous Martin McGuinness would have killed them in cold blood. I would not send a couple of friendly Bobbies to stop violent thugs. I'd want some serious force, including actual guns with bullets given it was well known that the IRA was about armed insurrection. IRA means Irish Republican Army. The IR "Army" was not like the Salvation Army who are not given to carrying machine guns. Life was so pleasant when guns were not part of life for me, other than people had them on farms and for actual hunting. It was quite shocking to first go traveling and find that people were actually using guns to threaten people in the streets. Within months of leaving peaceable NZ in 1974, I was in the midst of bombs around London, then traveling through Europe, there was gunfire in Portugal [the revolution was on], police in Italy carried guns that meant business and by the time we got to Greece and Turkey we were driving among tanks on the road, some were hiding under stacks of hay, hundreds were lined up ready to go, and war was imminent, with us in the midst of it. A decade later, killer police were patrolling airports, with hair trigger machine gun ready to fire [one the shooter, the other the communicator] - that was in Europe. It seems reasonable to have given guns to soldiers where Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams and others were killers in training. It seems they got out of hand, with perhaps some individual being an opportunistic murderer in his own right. I would not pretend there are not murderous police and soldiers. There are extreme examples such as at My Lai. Shall we call a truce? Mqurice