Return-Path: Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu by po11.mit.edu (8.9.2/4.7) id RAA05905; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:39:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA27532 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:39:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from buzzword-bingo.mit.edu (BUZZWORD-BINGO.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.73]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA13677 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:39:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (lphelan@localhost) by buzzword-bingo.mit.edu (8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20364; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:39:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:39:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Luke Phelan To: Subject: Re: h.f.s.?? (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII jamie asked me to forward this since he had sent it just to me by mistake. --puke This level of audible excitement is unusual for visitors viewing fish. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:00:31 -0400 From: Jamie Browning To: lphelan@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: h.f.s.?? No, it's actually happening. Adams has been urging them for quite some time, that's nothing new, but they are actually starting to do it. (Did I mention that Gerry Adams rocks?) It's been hidden in the news, but it's real exciting, huh? They won't give their guns over, but they are putting them "beyond use" by smashing them and concreting them in the ground. There have been a couple stockpiles confirmed destroyed by the impartial observers that have been sitting in Ireland for the past three years getting paid to wait for this to happen... I think the fact that the IRA were unwilling to do even the most symbolic and non-actual amount of disarming for the past seven years of cease fire, means that even if they're not dismantaling a significant part of their aresenal now, any symbolic disarmament is a huge step forward. What's also nice to see is that Blair is doing the right thing and responding right away by dismantling Brit millitary installations. (the presence of which is the reason the IRA didn't want to disarm in the first place, and not unreasonably so - "wait a minute, you invade out country, move hundreds of men and tanks over here, we get guns to defend ourselves, you promise to leave, and you want us to give up our guns BEFORE you more any troops out?". That sure as hell wouldn't fly in Texas.) Anyway, there's some good articals about it in the Manchester Guardian, which is in the Murph! Yay! An excuse to plug the Manch! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp