All true I'm afraid. You'll notice that only two of those things directly relate to me.

Edited by jamiemartin721 (23 Mar 2017 9.44am)

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So it's understandable to support murderers when you feel hard done by?

Just making a note of that.

Oh dear indeed.

That isn't what he said. As someone else mentioned a few pages back we are talking about people who's ideas and beliefs are deeply entrenched and ingrained in them practically from birth. passed down from their fathers, uncles and grandfathers . In the same way (very basic examples I accept but still comparable) the way racism is , sexism is , football hooliganism and so on. As a young child growing up in that environment it's very real that many would grow up as sympathisers or fully committed to the causes the ira represented. They wouldn't have known any different

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

'But it is easy to understand why some young people growing up in Belfast and surrounding areas would have been radicalised'.

If 'radicalised' isn't a euphuism for supporting terrorism then what is it?

If everyone who who felt like they were getting a raw deal killed someone, we would all be dead already.

And there is a decent argument that the "armed struggle"only came into being after the civil rights movement (modelled on the movement of the same name in the USA) and aimed at getting rid of the apartheid like state we had set up (giving in to unionist threats of terrorism) and turned a blind eye to while it flourished for decades was greeted by unrestrained violence.

If you were a catholic youth in 1968-1972,I suspect you'd have been likely to see your Provos as somewhat more your friends than the B Specials and the army...back in the days when Paisley was describing catholics as “they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin”,at a loyalist rally in 1969. Mind you he'd have felt right at home amongst the way some describe asylum seekers today,but that's another story.