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Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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Date: 
Tue, 25 May 2004 21:11:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
   At least, that’s a possibility of some of these ‘insurgents’. Maybe they think of themselves a ‘freedom fighters’.

I know, I know. I promised myself I’d try to stay away from .debate. But this freedom fighter thing got me thinking. What’s a freedom fighter? Who gets to decide? Were the IRA ever called freedom fighters? How are they generally perceived in Canada and Europe? A force for good, or a villianous gang?

Congratulations!

You’ve just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we’re right, the enemy is wrong. We’re brave, the enemy is villanous. We’ll win, the enemy will lose. We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he’s the enemy, again?

:-/


Pedro



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  Re: What's a freedom fighter?
 
(...) So if it really is all that muddy then what drives certain people (URL) post their opinion on it over and over and over and over and over, driving me nuts. I mean, I look at his background there and I don't see anything that says "crazy person (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: What's a freedom fighter?
 
(...) The problem with that theory denunciation is that, every once in a while, there IS a good guy bad guy war... And the problem wht THAT theory denunciation is that, "every once in a while" isn't very often, and it's hard to tell (from the (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  What's a freedom fighter?
 
(...) I know, I know. I promised myself I'd try to stay away from .debate. But this freedom fighter thing got me thinking. What's a freedom fighter? Who gets to decide? Were the IRA ever called freedom fighters? How are they generally perceived in (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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