My dear brother PeterT:
Never appoligise for taking part in a well meaning discussion, do however, take a mild crit for refering to Moaist beliefs. I am not a Moaist, I am definatly a Marxist, as much as all scientists are Einstienists. I am conditionaly an anarchist, as a syndicalist trade unionsit, and a communist and a socialist, as confusing as that might be to some.
The reason Seatle has canceled its celibration has little to do with Bobby Sands, rather it may be more the fact that most of your taxes go to buy missiles to aim at the rest of the world, while ignoring the need for health care and housing in this great land, which takes 70% of what the world produces.
Bobby Sands was as much a victem of NATO as he was of English colonialism. Again, as we in NATO nations threaten the world with a blinding flash of light and then eternity, who are we to causualy use the word terrorist for any enimy who sais no to the colateral effects of the cold war - like poverty unemployment and arrest without trial or crime in Ireland.
DON! My brother! I have always appreciated your rehtorical style, and I undertand your point in your comment about Irish drunks with bombs, however, that particular styerotype in this instance is without historical precident to my knowlege or experience.
All the best to all
As ever in peace and solidarity
Larry