At 05:29 PM 10/07/2001 -0700, FogStorm wrote:
On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 04:53 PM, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
On 7 Oct 2001, at 12:24, CJ Parker wrote:
Of course we're not attacking a Religion or a Country's 'people'... So let's prove it by launching Air Strikes against the Irish Republican Army Terrorists and the Irish Government entities that give them aid and support. Lets launch Air Strikes against the homes and families of the SeanPennSeanFeind Irish Politicians who support terroroism.
The IRA did not kill six thousand US civilians in a terrorist attack.
IIRC when the IRA attacks economic infrastructure targets they generally phone in a warning far enough in advance that the area can be evacuated.
Yes, but they don't do that when they're bombing pubs or department stores. Bobby Sands's suicide for his cause didn't kill other people, but that doesn't mean the IRA as a whole aren't murderers and thugs (nor does it mean the British overlords or the more extreme Protestant groups aren't murderers or thugs either.) On the other hand, US tobacco merchants, who kill about 7000 Americans per week, plus some harder-to-estimate number of people in other countries, have been putting warnings on their products for 35 years, and lots of people still don't get out of the way in time. (Plus the US government has not only subsidized growers over the years, they've actively subsidized tobacco export marketing.)