"I am nothing to do with any of that crap."
You may not support it Keith but it's integral to the partitioning of Ireland and the forcible way it has been kept in its place.
"I would love to be rid of the lot of you."
You sound like a flag-waving Empire Loyalist; this has been the cry of Empire down the ages - I assume you have conveniently overlooked the fact that I am a Brit bred and born.
This thread is about an incident in Irish history where, once again, the British establishment have dealt with 'the restlss natives' by brute force.
England's influence extends back over 8 centuries and is pock-marked with Bloody Sundays, this just being the latest. They have arrived at a situation where the state is so instable that it could be plunged into violence once again by incidents such as the bed-hopping antics of 'coo-coo-coo choo Mrs Robinson'.
There has been a great deal of ducking the real issues in this discussion;
Britain would be prepared to lose six counties should the occupants wish it - bollocks it would; it would fight tooth-and-nail to retain every inch of ground (from Rockall to The Falklands - look them up if you've forgotten).
The struggle for The United States was a fascist conflict (or did you just duck-and-dive around that one).
"This thread is about now, and about Bloody Sunday."
And Bloody Sunday was and remains about the governance of Ireland by force of arms - fascism (a term you were happy to raise) in anybody's book.
Jim Carroll