re: #2 researchok

Ulster needs the troubles. No one there really knows life without them.

A wise man once noted that if you want to make real enemies, propose real change.

re: #5 War On Music

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

That smug piece of twaddle you just posted, safe in your house thousands of miles away from Northern Irelend, made me think of Bono’s excoriation of Irish-Americans that supported “the revolution back home” he gave during a 1987 live performance of Sunday, Bloody Sunday:

And let me tell you somethin’. I’ve had enough of Irish Americans who haven’t been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home…and the glory of the revolution…and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don’t talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What’s the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where’s the glory in that? Where’s the glory in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where’s the glory in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or dead under the rubble of the revolution, that the majority of the people in my country don’t want. No more!

Think on that…