Thanks Keith for the welcome, and to all the 'lads'... ;-)

"2 No. What ever made you think that I did?"

This....
"Re your experience with the British Army, it would be helpful to know if you were a volunteer with PIRA"

Why should you make such a correlation?

Are all Iraqi's, for instance, who are against 'The Allied Occupation', viewed as subversives...
... or just potential ones?

It is one thing to re-write history, Keith, quite another fettle of kish however, to invent it.... like that craic about the Civil Rights Movement putting a United Ireland agenda forward quicker than the Armed Struggle could have done.

Remember that all the nationalist people of Ireland, Keith, were always known as 'The Enemy'. Brookeborough said it in so many words, and refused point blank (pun intended) to consider the Nationalist goal of self-determination. In the post-9/11 World such nomenclature was, and is, reserved for Al Q and the bhoys.

What your take on the phenomenon of the 'Thought Police', Keith?
Do you pander to it by any chance, yourself?