Re: FN-FORUM: OT - was Save Money - US-UK chat

date posted 22nd June 2003 18:17


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From: "Dave Edwards" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: OT - was Save Money - US-UK chat


> >>>> Mind you, a Brit has to be a little careful in some of the Boston
bars.
> >>>> There's the Paul Revere factor (a good natured roast these days) but
also
> >>>> more seriously in the Irish ones there can be certain perceptions
about the
> >>>> UK and Northern Ireland and people who see the IRA as freedom
fighters. I
> >>>> never had a problem but it did occur to me that maybe I should be a
little
> >>>> cautious.
> >>>>
> >>> Can we get onto the support of terrorism by the USA now ? :-)
> >>>
> >> You mean the collection box on the bar counter top?
> >>
> > That's just a tiny drop in the ocean of support, whether explicit or
implicit,
> > and by both individuals and the state.....
> >
> Ah yes - support for the contras, Latin American death squads, various
> despotic but foreign policy friendly regimes and state terrorism directly
or
> indirectly through proxy states such as Israel. One man's freedom fighter
is
> another's terrorist. Duncan - you're a muesli eating saddle wearing
> Grauniad/Sindy reader like me, right?

Let's also not forget that the USA Government has refused to extradite
convicted
IRA terrorist escapees back to the UK, but when other states refuse to
extradite _suspects_ to the USA it bombs those countries or invades them.

Aksherley, my opinions lean in all sorts of directions, and I'm more of a
Private
Eye person.

Anyway, who here can not say that they have never tried to overthrow at
least
one Government in the UK? :-)