The worst film ever made

I would like to step into Liam and Reg's argument:

First of all - the people shot dead on Gibraltar were almost certainly unarmed but were almost certainly an active IRA unit.

You need to measure whether you think a goverment should act like a terrorist group (i.e. take out some terrorists before they strike) against whether they should stick to the law (try and arrest them and put them in front of a judge). Does the fact that these people were probably planning an atrocity justify their execution?

Someone made mention of mass unemployment - I presume you meant in Northern Ireland? This is not exactly true and in fact the economy there is currently booming - some call it a 'peace dividend'. The UK economy has not been dragged down - it is booming to the extent that foreign labour has been imported en masse to support it.

The IRA have been responsible for many deaths and many innocent victims - but then again the British army are far from angels as Irish history shows.

The 'General' was a rather distasteful character - and I find it personally disgusting that he is anyway glorified. However, I would prefer if he was now rotting in jail rather than being executed by an illegal terrorist group.

I think the one thing we can all agree on id that this film is utter shi*e.

I presume you are referring to the Provisional IRA when you mention they brought attention to civil rights injustices? That may well be true although many peace loving activists did a hell of alot more to raise this issue than the provos. The provos did a hell of a lot of other things too that took civil rights away from people - the civil right to life for one.

If you don't theink Enniskillen was a terrorist act then you don't understand terrorism. The Gibraltar killings were state-sponsored terrorism.