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Thread #111247   Message #2344778
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
19-May-08 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK football riots. A minority of idiots?
Subject: RE: BS: UK football riots. A minority of idiots?
Reviving National Service might have all kinds of consequences, good or bad, but the idea that it would eliminate street violence is not one of them. Off-duty squaddies, as has been demonstrated time and time again, are just as capable of this kind of stuff as their civilian comtenporaries, and a lot more effective at it. As Kipling wrote "single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints".