"Look. You are being oppressed. You have the choice of kissing arse and hoping for rewards. Or you learn, most recently in UK history, from the IRA. You blow the (insert suitable epithet) up. I think they were wrong, but their methods succeeded." - Richard Bridge

Richard, the IRA succeeded in nothing apart from being directly responsible for the deaths of about 2,100 of their own countrymen and maiming and injuring many thousands more. In doing so they economically destroyed the the communities they operated in, and still to this day leave behind them an atmosphere of hate and intimidation - but then I forgot that's the type of "justice" that you'd opt for.

If you doubt what I have said above Richard take a good look at the PSNI and its constitution. Policing was one of the base causes for complaint, the "new" police service had to be repesentative of the community it served. So Richard after thirty plus years (Some might say taking recent events into mind that we are still in it) of "The Troubles" we have a police service that is predominantly protestant now you tell me was it worth it. Everything, repeat everything, that has been gained politically in Northern Ireland the NICRA were on the verge of winning about forty years ago - the "Official IRA" realised that and stayed out of it, the "Provisional IRA" did not and managed to delay political advancement in Northern Ireland for three decades. And you Mr Bridge would not know "oppression" if it jumped up and bit you in the arse, you want to go to a few places around the world where it exists, then come back to the UK and actually explore the avenues available to you to implemment change peacefully - heaving bricks through the windows of people you don't happen to like is not one of them.