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12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Officers who helped dr... · 0 replies · +2 points

You need to read the letter again and again and try to understand it.

"extraordinary courage" - you're not well.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Prosperity is leaving ... · 0 replies · 0 points

I might reply in your own words that "Correlation does not equal causation".

The point made by John is that prosperity is increasing while unhappiness is also increasing. Material prosperity is increasing and of that there is no doubt. But the corollary to that is that there are consequences that are resulting in great unhappiness.

The point about politicians is that they are being influenced by party donors who invariable want to muscle their way into decisions of government. At the very least they want themselves held up as examples of how it is done - ref Lord Sugar, a deeply unhappy man.

"We are not getting richer we are getting poorer and have been for some time" - that might be said to be what John is saying in his letter.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Prosperity is leaving ... · 0 replies · +1 points

John has a point. When prosperity increases, it is because governments point to increases in GNP and GDP. While our societies experienced these GNP GDP increases, they also have seen levels of depression, obesity and eating disorders increase almost exponentially. These are indicators of an unhappy society and of deeply unhappy people. A simple explanation of this phenomenon would suggest that material or monetary prosperity is leading to increasing unhappiness as the good Lord suggested it would.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Prosperity is leaving ... · 3 replies · +2 points

Well said, John. It wouldn't be the first time we learn of these conflicts of interest for politicians in particular but due to the fact that so many people are involved it has to be a very important message to get to grips with - why are so many people unhappy?.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Past violence proves a... · 1 reply · +2 points

John Hume said many times - even as far back as the 1960s - that not one human life needed to be taken in pursuit of the goal of Irish unity. Was he wrong?

IR suggests that he was wrong. I wonder then why in 1994 Sinn Fein caved in on their usual demands of British withdrawal and an immediate united Ireland and accepted the Hume analysis verbatim.

Having started the IRA campaign - perhaps to undermine John Hume and the SDLP right from their beginnings in 1970 - the IRA leaders simply hadn't got a clue what to do next and the campaign ended in 1994 without any real gain and with all the same problems IR has listed still effective.

I don't know where IR gets his license for humour, albeit black humour. It can only be gallows humour in the context of his allegiance to Irish republicanism, which has delivered nothing. It won't be long now before the myths of an effective IRA will be exposed.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Movies point to all th... · 0 replies · -4 points

Where do we get all these intellectual supremacists? Fueled by their superiority they can't help themselves as they google every word to find an angle to attack a letter writer. It works every time, of course - in their own minds at least. What clever boys!

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Parties are being held... · 1 reply · -3 points

New agreements can be made and agreed to.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Parties are being held... · 0 replies · -1 points

maybe you should spray some of your name on it, deodorant.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Parties are being held... · 0 replies · -2 points

Rosie

I suppose that you have a high threshold on jokes with your name.

Where's the joke? Face the facts - the unionists were not allowed to express their opinion in support of an agreement due to the influence of a new generation of extremists. SF can deliver nothing significant due to dissidents. The GFA has taken things as far as it could.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Parties are being held... · 3 replies · -5 points

"The SDLP had decades to prove it could deliver for Irish citizens but delivered absolutely nothing!"

Again I would assert that the IRA spoiled it for the SDLP, just as the dissidents will spoil it for SF. There is no future in the GFA for either unionists or Nationalists.

"Partition will end when Nationalists become a voting majority in the Six Counties - the GFA guarantees that."

Just wishful thinking. You're just naive about our politics.

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