This thread was really intended to sympathise with those who suffered in the Boston bombings. But it is good to see, Brain Fever, someone from the Republic condemning the IRA for the thugs and gangsters which they were (and indeed which some still regrettably are). They didn't hesitate to murder any of their own if they thought they were less than loyal to the cause and they were responsible for the great majority of the appalling number of deaths which occured during the "Troubles".
That said, the Unionist extremists were hardly better - illegal clubs abounded in the Protestant areas of Belfast and their idea of a punishment knee-capping was not the pistol shot favoured by the IRA but a slow drilling with an electric drill to inflict the maximum agony. What sort of people can do that to a fellow human being unless they themselves are so sick as to be less than human.
Fortunately events in Boston don't seem to indicate anything seriously sectarian (unless you count Jihadism against the West as a whole - a subject in itself). But people have died or been horribly injured, and our thoughts should go out to them.
Tony.
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