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Originally Posted by Bernie  Not so long ago the IRA were seen as a big threat to safety in these parts(maybe they still are and have just gone quiet who knows??) But what I really want to know is do/did they make you feel more scared than the Muslim extremists who are IMO our biggest threat today? |
The IRA wanted a political solution. Therefore they COULD be talked to. The muslims however will not be happy until the Queen is beheaded, all women stoned (With stones!), and you can no longer listen to music, dance or eat a pork pie.
What they WANT is more dangerous.
As to THREAT.
I work in the "security branch" of Government, and I have worked in N.I during the height of the IRA campaign.
The IRA were REAL.
My intelligence estimate, the present threat is being blown out of all proportion by Western Governments to justify ever more draconian restrictions on legal recourse, privacy, assumption of innocence etc, on the ordinary people of the West.
Not a fortnight to a month goes by without our equivalent of the home office warning of "imminent threats" to German cities.
Personaly, even though our department is heavily involved in the counter messures, and reacts to them MOST seriously, it has an "exersize" feel to it for us all.
In private not many of us believe them.
WHY Governments should do that, I do not know. I am not into world domination myself. Perhaps one of you who is could answer that?