[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
HI Steve,
No offense meant to you and certainly the sins of a government should not
be passed on to the shoulders of the citizenry. If they were then we
would be in a lot of trouble here in the US.
But two wrongs, or several wrongs for that matter do not add up to a
right. The point was with respect to the relative merits of the judicial
system in the respective countries. Certainly Britain's track record
with respect to suspected IRA terrorists ranks in infamy right along with
our track record with respect to civil rights violations in the 40's and
50's.
I abhor violence no matter who is doing it and it seems to me that there
is plenty of violence being perpetrated on both sides of the
Britain/Ireland issue.
Bill
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998 17:57:47 -0000 Steve Wright
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>But given the British handling of the IRA prisoners in the past I
>don't
>think they have much room to criticize other judicial systems.
>
>Bill
>
>Sorry to get a bit touchy Bill but there is a difference between a
>young kid
>and a cold blooded killer. After what happened in Oklahoma City I
>would
>have thought that you would have a bit more sympathy with not only
>British
>Solders, but the British people themselves. In Germany we had Snipers
>shooting our off duty troops at traffic lights, we had mortar attacks
>on
>barracks. In the U.K we have had indiscriminate bombing of shopping
>centers
>(Manchester) and the bombing of Canary Warf in London. These are not
>military targets I was not a military target but to the IRA it made no
>difference. How can you defend that? I understand people fighting
>for
>there beliefs but I have no time for them when the kill innocent
>civilians.
>I agree that the handling of prisoners by our country is brutal to say
>the
>least but there is good reason. I only hope that the attempts to bury
>the
>hatchet and find a peaceful solution come to a satisfactory
>conclusion.
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>
>
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