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Originally Posted by chav1
err no the irish were complaining , no one else gave a fcuk its only because political correctness has got even worse these days that its now a racist act to stop a black or brown person and teh ira arnt exactly active in teh UK now are they , the current lot of terrorists are of eastern appearance
if your innocent you will have nothing to hide so if the police stop you unless you want shooting i recomend you stay still like anyone with half a brain would
when i got pulled tro one side in spain by the undercover police i was confused and brushed them aside thinking they were pick pockets or beggars but once they flashed tehir badges and showed their guns i satyed still and co-operated
that idiot ran and got shot and i find it totaly disgusting that his family got a payout for his own stupidy
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Political Corectness wasn't even a term that had been invented, or indeed even crossed the Atlantic yet, when this happened in the first half of the 1970s.
There was fear, and a backlash, including violence, against some innocent people with Irish accents. There was actually also protest, both physical, and in some of the more enlightened press pleas for tolerance, against this fear that everyone with an Irish accent could be a suspect terrorist.
An irrational a fear, as every dark skinned person running for a tube being a suicide bomber.
However, what I found so unsettling in the whole sorry case, was the fact that British intelligence, on matters regarding our national security, were so obviously very wrong. As was shown when this innocent man proved not to be the person they suspected...after they'd shot him.