At 5:30pm on the afternoon of the 17th of May 1974 3 car bombs exploded simultaneously on Parnell Street, Talbot Street and South Leinster Street in Dublin City centre. An hour and a half later another bomb exploded on North Road in Monaghan Town. The bombs claimed the lives of 30 people and left over 300 maimed or injured. All these bombs were triggered without warning to maximise civilian casulties. Bodies of some of the deceased were never recovered.

No group claimed responisbility until 1993 when loyalist terrorist organisation the UVF(Ulster Volunteer Force) claimed it was them. However evidence has emerege that indicates that the bombings were actually planned and carried out by British Army special forces the SAS. This means that this was an act of war upon the Republic of Ireland and of course an act of State terror. Of course it also adds to the hypocrasy of Britians participation in the "War on Terror" when they have been responsible for terrorists atrocities themselves.

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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

The whole War on Terror should be renamed to the War of Terror, given that it is carried out by the biggest terrorists on the planet. Even if they did not carry out the bombings, British collusion with the UVF, support of Pinochet, selling Saddam weapons AFTER he gassed the Kurds, sinking the Belgrano and supporting all thing US and Israeli makes them as guilty as anyone of advancing terror.

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Any links to the SAS being involved? Oh I forgot the UVF and IRA are just miss understood freedom fighters that happen to kill innocents to make a statement.

So true, even if that wasn't the SAS I agree with our comrade that Britain must always be hypocrtical in the war "on" terror as long as trhe current government reigns. Not until we have a government that recognises past crimes and apologises can we truly be able to condemn terrorism as a state without hypocrisy.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

Who said that? Bosco even called the UVF a "terrorist organisation".

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

I agree and I number the US president and VP among them.

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"Feminism has fought no wars.
It has killed no opponents.
It has set up no concentration camps,
starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties.
Its battles have been for education, for the vote,
for better working conditions ...
for safety on the streets, for child care,
for rape crisis clinics, women's refuges, reforms in the laws.
If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist!", I ask,
"Why? What's your problem?" - Dale Spender

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Oh no one said it but I know a few people where thinking it.

I think the IRA are freedom fighters.. Just as you call folks like John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry, and the others.. Patriots..

The Brits called them Rebels, today the Brits invoke the word Terrorist.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

Can we not lump a whole load of people as thinking exactly the same, you've done it here with "the Brits", a people I've never met in my life, and it has been done many times before by various people. I don't say "the Americans are racist" for example, though some might be.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

the brits when used as a term actually refers to the British government and of course the milirtary. I understand your position though mate. So Ill specify henceforth

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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