The 6 of May just past was the 27th anniversary of the death of Member of Parliament Robert "Bobby" Sands. Bobby along with ten of his comrades died on hungerstrike in H6 of the Maze prison to attain the status of Political Status for his fellow prisoners.

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

Your point is?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Its the history Forum. So I posted an historical thread upon an historical event.


Any of this registering with you?

Or should I simplify it for you?

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

R.i.p.

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Wether or not you agreed with his cause, he was willing to die for it, and that is honorable in my book.

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Great Russia has welded forever to stand
Created in struggle by will of the people
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Hands Off Venezuela - Home

Plenty of Nazis died for their cause. I don't really consider them honorable.

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~Ambrose Bierce

Rodimtsev’s Guardsmen fought and died here for their Motherland.
~A soldier of General Rodimtsev's 13th Guards Rifle Division, December 1942, Stalingrad.

Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Ray McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty,Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine are incomparable to the Nazis!!!

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

Very few of the leaders were "willing" to die for their cause, they all thought that they would live until the end. They were "willing" to fight and win, but they were wrong and ended up dieing anyway. For those that, given the choice of lie down their beliefs or die, choose to die for what they believed in do have honor.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Don't click here, seriously

If your cause is honorable, the sacrifice of your life for that cause is honorable.

I can't quote Frank McCort exactly, but it was something to the point of people once saying the sun never set on the British Empire. The meaning of which was the British had colonies and military bases all over the world. It was a statement to inflate the already over inflated Brit ego. Frank was celebrating the fact that the sun is now setting on the Britihs Empire "with a thud."

It is too bad Bobby didn't live to hear that thud.

Sorry Lev - nothing personal. It is the British Empire and royal lordship uppity ups I'm mad at, the Queen Elizabeth I types.

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