There is another school of thought, Keith that injustices would never have been overcome without it.

You throw away our grieviences like so much old rubbish, Keith, and being retrospectively optimistic as you always are, you fail to see where all of that non-violence got us.

The IRA were the tip of the iceberg.

You quote me in the first line of your post, and then proceed as if you have never read it.

You crowd are in the tertiary stages of denial, Keith. It would seem that the majority of the rest of the 'British' posters like yourself have gotten the message already.

Try and look at what happened, rather than relying on your own Hollywoodised version of it to keep you comforted in your old age, Keith. Your population will be a lot safer in the future if you heed this advice we give you.

You could be a lot further on but for the actions of that internationally reviled terrorist group with all its links to terror, sponsoring Loyalist Death Squads and their ilk.

The Nationalist people of the north of Ireland did not have the comfort of your patience; things were a bit more life or death up until the final ceasefire.

How many of us would you have been prepared to see ethnically cleansed before you would have said 'Enough'?

Like the rest of the apathetic 'British', probably all of us.

Don't talk wet, for Chrissakes