I wasn’t born into a family that didn’t buy into choosing sides, we all of us at one time or another had friends who were of the other side, friends who like us didn’t buy into the hate game. The average Northern Irish person just wants to get on with their lives, choose a school for their children according to whether it is good, not on what religion is promotes, choose a job they regardless of how many Catholics or Protestants work there, walk down the street without worrying about whether the kerb stones are painted red, whit and blue or, green, orange and white.
On both side of the fight, the gangs involved have now turned their hands to protection rackets and drug dealing… that says it all.
I lived in a town that was part of the murder triangle of “the troubles”. I remember walking into town with my Grandmother at the age of six and having a bomb go off behind us, it was normal and we carried on with our day. I remember that every time a helicopter would fly low overhead that I as a young child knew there was trouble going on somewhere, I remember walking to school past an army patrol and knowing something bad was going down in my town. Every time our town centre got rebuilt it was bombed down again. People were routinely ripped from their beds in front of their families, taken away by men in masks never to come home again. So do not tell me this was a thing to applaud, a thing to be excited about joining in with. This silly little actress would crap her pants if a bomb went off within ten miles of her, never mind round the corner.
What a muppet. That is just so entirely socially and morally wrong. I was born into and lived trough “the troubles” the average terrorist on either side of the fight was not killing for any cause, they were killing because hate was ingrained in them from birth, because generations of hate had come before. They were killing for the sake of killing. Little kids being heckled, spat at and abused on the walk to school because they had no choice but to walk down a street that supported the opposing side. You couldn’t be neutral, if you went to that school, you would be hated. If you married into the opposing religion you were a clear target for violence from both sides.
On both side of the fight, the gangs involved have now turned their hands to protection rackets and drug dealing… that says it all.
Unite don’t fight.