Today, I'm not seeing the funny side
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hellisonSo trawling round lj randomly isn't always good. Boredom lead to following various links here and there and I ended up in an few Irish communities. One, supposedly for everyone to discuss what passes for politics here was fetchingly decked out in green white and orange.
Another one... reading responses to just one post has me in a combination of blind fury and deep depression. Most of the posters were, to be fair, sane reasonable people. But the sheer stupidity and blind rhetoric of the IRA apologists in there stunned me.
Yes, I know in theory they exist - and exist I'm sure equally for loyalist thugs, but you expect them to be old bitter folk.
Seeing the next generation actually still furiously insisting the IRA don't kill civilians, don't deal in drugs and aren't a tightly organised gang of murdering, racketeering criminals is... words fail me.
Is it any wonder we only get so far every time before we get dragged backwards by these fuckwits and the thugs they idolise?
So I'm currently trying to remind myself of just how far we have come in the past 10 years or so. But then recent events seem to be taking us right back the other way again.
Johnny Adair has to be exiled (not this that in itself is a bad thing) because the UDA will kill him if they catch him. Yet they're still officially considered as under ceasefire.
Ira members can stab and kick a man to death outside a busy pub, intimidate the witnesses and clear away all the evidence, expel a couple of people (thus admitting responsibility). Yet they're still officially considered under ceasefire.
What was that phrase - 'internal housekeeping'? It's not breaking the ceasefire if it's one of your own!
Monday I said if you didn't laugh, you'd cry. I don't feel much like laughing right now.
Another one... reading responses to just one post has me in a combination of blind fury and deep depression. Most of the posters were, to be fair, sane reasonable people. But the sheer stupidity and blind rhetoric of the IRA apologists in there stunned me.
Yes, I know in theory they exist - and exist I'm sure equally for loyalist thugs, but you expect them to be old bitter folk.
Seeing the next generation actually still furiously insisting the IRA don't kill civilians, don't deal in drugs and aren't a tightly organised gang of murdering, racketeering criminals is... words fail me.
Is it any wonder we only get so far every time before we get dragged backwards by these fuckwits and the thugs they idolise?
So I'm currently trying to remind myself of just how far we have come in the past 10 years or so. But then recent events seem to be taking us right back the other way again.
Johnny Adair has to be exiled (not this that in itself is a bad thing) because the UDA will kill him if they catch him. Yet they're still officially considered as under ceasefire.
Ira members can stab and kick a man to death outside a busy pub, intimidate the witnesses and clear away all the evidence, expel a couple of people (thus admitting responsibility). Yet they're still officially considered under ceasefire.
What was that phrase - 'internal housekeeping'? It's not breaking the ceasefire if it's one of your own!
Monday I said if you didn't laugh, you'd cry. I don't feel much like laughing right now.
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Date: 2005-03-04 05:52 pm (UTC)I've gotten so used to arguing with closed-minded people, it's a shock - and a very pleasant one - to come across someone who can not only put across an opposing point of view politely, but will actually listen and *think* before dismissing other views out of hand.
Thank you!
I hope the move goes smoothly and you have a wonderful new life!
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Date: 2005-03-04 06:12 pm (UTC)