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" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
we used to call them " Security Rounds",,,,,Its a safety issue pure and simple. After assaulting through a target, put a security round in everybody's head..
you don't know who or what is in the next room, and you're already speaking english to each other and its loud because your hearing is poor from shooting people for several days. So you know that there are many other rooms to enter, and that if anyone is still alive in those rooms, they know that Americans are in the building..
bang bang Tango
Have you ever lived in NOW for a week? It is not easy, and if you have never lived in NOW for longer than it takes to finish the roller coaster at Rainbows End, then shut your hole about putting Soldiers and Marines in jail for war crimes.
Last edited by SARGE; 10th July 2007 at 23:49.
Past..past..past - people dwell waaay too long on the past (just look at NZ for a classic example)
Sure, the Birmingham Six may have been a screw-up - but it was in the past, no need to go on forever about it!(unless you're a loser type of organisation that never wants to get ahead)
The bomb threats I mentioned are an ongoing thing.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........![]()
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Screw-up? No, a Police screw-up is where some procedure's not followed properly and the case collapses, or a genuine mistake is made leading to an unfair conviction.
The Birmingham Six case involved a number of officers who knowingly fabricated evidence, witheld other evidence and lied consistently and convincingly in court. That's no screw-up - that's ... well, I'm sure you know the names of the offences better than I.
Of course they're a loser organisation; they are (or were) a bunch of mindless thugs whose republican wishes for Northern Ireland (contrary to the wishes of the majority of the population) had got mixed up in radical left-wing politics and further corrupted through association with some of the world's less palatable groups including the PLO, Red Hand Gang, ETA and the Libyan Government.
The British certainly didn't do themselves any favours in dealing with them; as the USA's finding out with its policies in the middle east at the moment, policies such as internment ended up being the biggest and best recruiting sergeant the IRA ever had. By trying to appear somewhat reasonable (this british governemnt can make the right noises, but is never sincere on anything) they marginalised the IRA enough that the target of the attacks changed focus. Instead of attacking military or political targets, which although maybe not condoned by the undecided could at least be understood, they moved to bombing purely civilian targets on the British mainland. The IRA always tried to protray themselves as plucky freedom fighters struggling against ruthless oppressors; not a portayal that gels well with bombing a busy shopping-centre in the middle of Manchester on a sunny summer's Saturday afternoon.
And despite using 40 tonnes of fertiliser in a dump truck, they didn't even manage to blow up the Arndale Centre - a stunningly unattractive building - properly, which would have allowed the IRA to claim they were taking action to rectify crimes against aesthetics.
Like the majority of terrorist organisations, the IRA were a criminal organisation who tried to legitimise their existence and actions by attaching them to some glorious political aim. And like most similar actions, they were simplyt hugs who wanted an excuse to go and blow things up or kill people.
It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.
Huh? Sinn Fein have a right to sit in the UK parliament and have had so for a very long time. They have MPs elected by the same elections as anyone else. The first female MP was Sinn Feiner. However, Sinn Fein do not sit in parliament in London as they refuse to swear alleigance to the Queen, and are therefore unable to take their seat.
Sinn Fein do take part in the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stornaway, but again, only as they have had people elected to those seats.
It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.
This is getting off topic I know but I found this on "Psychology Today".
Soooooooooo.....basically.......suicide bombers do it because they're not getting any!!!!Most suicide bombers are Muslim
Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.
What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is that it tolerates polygyny. By allowing some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities, polygyny creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other 50 percent don't get any wives at all.
So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status. It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates. By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives. Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region.
However, polygyny itself is not a sufficient cause of suicide bombing. Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa. And they do have very high levels of violence. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a long history of continuous civil wars—but not suicide bombings.
The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam. The prospect of exclusive access to virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even one mate on earth, which strict monogamy virtually guarantees. However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.
It is the combination of polygyny and the promise of a large harem of virgins in heaven that motivates many young Muslim men to commit suicide bombings. Consistent with this explanation, all studies of suicide bombers indicate that they are significantly younger than not only the Muslim population in general but other (nonsuicidal) members of their own extreme political organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. And nearly all suicide bombers are single.
...she took the KT, and left me the Buell to ride....(Blues Brothers)
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