As to what Member of Parliment Sands was forced to quote the walls of his cell with... forced by a system which did not allow him to empty the bucket in his cell which was the only toilet allowed to him... I take it sage is an American citizen. As a matter of fact, the courts of the US, in every instance found the IRA not to be a terrorist organization, read the Doherty decisions, if you can find your way to a law library, most american court systems have public law librarys... well the point is that your government, through the patriot act, now makes it possible that the determination of who is a terrorist is not a matter of factual determanation by courts but is up to the whyms of politics, something warned about in the Federalist Papers, which you may also read again, if you have ever read them in the first place, today in America, the facts are the last thing most Yanks wish to be faced with, which is why they voted in large numbers for the less intelligent canadate, not in large enough numbers to win the vote, mind you, but now this terrorist in thw white house who threatens world peace is taking away YOUR rights and you worry about Bobby Sands? As to poets being gentle folks, you obviously are not big on English lit either, read Kipling...
All the best
Larry