Joseph Hebert wrote:
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Well stated Jez! Out of curiosity, what have you been going through for the past fifty years that we're just now getting a taste of?

...well, we have lived our whole adult lives threatened by terrorism sponsored in large part by Irish-Americans like, say, the New York firemen. Children at my step daughters schools were injured by flying glass from the largest bomb detonated in the UK since the second world war, in the centre of the city 8 miles from here.

...in Germany, France, Spain and Italy there are/were terrorist organisations with internal aims to dismantle capitalism, regain the "old country" or some other excuse to have a high old time killing people.

Steve