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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE]There is the matter that Northern Ireland is part of the UK [/QUOTE]Riiiiiiight. #1. England invaded and occupied Ireland (including Northern Ireland). It may have happened 900 years ago, but it still happened. #2. Although the majority of occupied territory was eventually released, Ulster is still occupied. They remain under foreign rule since the "intifada" of the late 60's-early 70's. #3. England built settlements on Irish land, moving British citizens in in successive waves of "relocations," adding a veneer of legitimacy to their occupation. Otherwise they would clearly not have enough votes in the occupied territory to win any legitimate referendum. #4. The British maintain "Diplock" courts, for trial without jury, a practice widely condemned by human-rights organizations for compromising due process (sounds familiar) We demand the immediate withdrawal of UK forces and settlements from the occpied territories in Northern Ireland, with UN sanctions to be imposed in the event of noncompliance. Of course, I'm just being a bastard, and you could easily apply the "invasion and occupation" stigma to every country in the Western Hemisphere and many in the Eastern. But it's funny how, when you expand ideals that seem applicable to ONE situation, they don't always seem applicable to similar ones. [QUOTE] The IRA is a small and unnecessarily violent minority [/QUOTE]sounds like the PLO. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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