| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <plotd@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Help Wanted |
| Date: | Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:36:19 +0100 |
edu>, Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU> writes
>On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>> Humanis Policlub is a political movement, not a terrorist movement. Yes,
>> it's widely known or suspected that they have links to - may even be
>> outright sponsors of - violent groups like Alamos 20,000, but they are
>> an open, legitimate political organisation.
>>
>> A real-world example would be Sinn Fein.
>
>I am curious if you were using the recent bombing in Omagh as an
>inspiration for this.
Actually, no, but it's an excellent example.
>Sinn Fein is precicely the kind of organisation that I was picturing in
>this instance. They want a unified Ireland free of British rule, but are
>seen to be trying to bring it about through peaceful and political means,
>but are closely associated with the IRA, which has used terrorist tactics
>in the past.
The _Provisional_ IRA, which split off from the "original IRA" some
years ago. The Irish Republican Army, which was a heavily socialist
organisation, renounced violence and renamed itself the Worker's Party,
and still exist. Then, since the ceasefure, breakaway factions like
Continuity IRA and Real IRA have decided that only armed might will
achieve their aims.
And that's before you get into INLA and other nationalist groups...
Basically, from a distance all racist groups are "Humanis terrorists".
In reality, look closer and they're a disparate mass of competing and
only rarely co-operating groups.
<Life of Brian mode>
"Are you the Human Purity League?"
"Piss off! We're the League of Human Purity!"
</Life of Brian mode>
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
