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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Da_bang80: [qb] Well, the honest part was kind of implied, I should have chosen my words better there. As for the paranoia bit, while the news and the government are fanning the flames so to speak, terrorism is still the one of the underlying causes at least the way I see it. You're correct when you said there wasn't this kind of nonsense during the conflict in North Ireland. But the conflict didn't really affect anyone living outside of the British Isles. I think al Qaeda (for some reason I can never spell that, their fault for picking a stupid name :p ) proved a point on 9/11 that they can in fact strike anywhere. And that's a scary thought for a lot of people. Which is where my Cold War analogy came in. I remember my parents telling me about practicing diving under desks in the event of a nuclear attack. That must also have been a scary time for a lot of people. I count myself lucky that I didn't have to live through it. Anyways, I'm not what you would call a debater so I probably only make sense to myself... Fuck it, I'm going to bed. [/qb][/QUOTE]Not to put too fine a point on it but I'm British and the story at the start of the thread took place here too, so the comparison to the IRA campaign is quite relevant. The only paranoia I saw was in the form of false alarms regarding unattended bags and as a child being told at school not to kick can in the street, lest you get your foot blown off. Another fun fact that at the time, allot of them were being funded, equipped and sheltered by the U.S. - talk about paranoia, imagine if today Canada was found to be harbouring terrorists. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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