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Thread #117127   Message #2524178
Posted By: GUEST,Pheonix
24-Dec-08 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Sean McKenna. Republican Hunger Striker-1980
Subject: RE: Obit: Sean McKenna. Republican Hunger Striker-1980
I think Goatfell you will find that there are many kinds of balaclava's. Pilots who drop 1000 lb bombs on innocent villagers from 25,000 feet or carpet bomb whole cities. SAS lying in ditches backed up with the arm of the state who operate outside the law , faceless, nameless. Trigger happy killers on bloody sunday who still ,thirty years late, hide behind screens , destroy evidence , manipulate the truth. British prime ministers who sit in their comfortable living rooms thousands of miles from danger who authorise the killing of hundreds of sailors by an invisible enemy under the sea and rejoice at their death. Right and wrong, good and evil , no-one has a monopoly on any of it , where you find self righteouness hypocracy isn't far away.

I was a young man when i first saw Sean McKenna's fresh face stare out from a poster. I always wondered what became of him and it brought back memories when i heard of his death.