during 1994, was Belfast, London a violent place???
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well this happened Saturday 18 June 1994 \n6 Catholic civilians were killed in a gun attack on a bar in Loughinisland, County Down. The attack was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). \n\nand you really need an atlas if you think Belfast is in London, it's not even in the same country
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My husband was a National Guard in Detroit at the time & got activated. He was gone for several weeks during the riots. The t.v. news would say only 2 or 3 was shot or just a few were killed at the end. It was all Lie's. He was a medic & was stationed in Harper hospital in downtown Detroit & saw them carrying in stretchers with 2 & 3 dead bodies piled on them at a time constantly. They didn't want the truth be let out on the local news for fear of things getting even worse. Back then they covered up a lot of the gory stuff, it was not like the news now a days where they tell & show everything.
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No.  Many different people are behind many different terroristic operations.  In Northern Ireland, you had the IRA doing a lot of killing and bombing for years before the Islamic attacks.  All religion have fanatics.  It is normal and human nature.
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It's a pretty violent place. There are safer places in the U.S. Good luck to you.
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To Chef now yo.\nYOU are talking through your hole. Being Irish and having watched the dirty scum bag English hooligans come over to my Country and smash our stadium up  and put countless people in hospital after England went - 1-0 down in 1994, i got to see first hand what the media repeatedly get the blame for  in England. How can you even try to defend that kind of behaviour. You can't.Yes .i agree the loss of the Leeds fan in turkey was very sad, but does it give You the right to intimidate and vandalise wherever you go. Travel abroad with any other nation and watch everyone take step back when all the English thugs arrive. You can't justify football hooliganism and as a Brit you  should look a bit closer to home before criticising other nations. Blame everybody but yourself. Some of my closest friends and family are English and agree with me entirely
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Well...it is definately one of the most intrusive states in the world, without a doubt.\n\nI read recently that in the district of Hammersmith there we over 14 different cameras directed at a single roundabout, from police cameras to council fine cameras to business protection cameras.\n\nI would say, that the country is definately more big brother than it ever has been before..especially since the arrival of that paranoid egotistical PM Blair..maybe he is the CEO of endemol!! who knows!!!\n\nSo YES it is becoming a surveillance state, where as before hand there was just the usual security etc that any western state has.\n\nIt makes you wonder and begin to question whether or not it really is a liberal democratic state..or a silent dictatorship...
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lets see.....in 1989 I was almost blown up by a floating mine in the persian gulf.....I have almost been hit by cars.. fallen on the tracks in the subway when I was a child....I have had more close calls riding on a motorcycle than I want to remember....I woke up with a knife to my thoat on one ship....crack heads are such nice people... I could go on .. but I am starting to wonder if \nA) I am one lucky bastard\nB) God is Mad at me but keeps missing.\nC)it is true God watches out for the Irish / drunks/ small children and idiot....\n hmmm I am only half Irish so that cant be it...\nI work on ships for a living so there is always something that can go wrong......gotta keep on your toes....\n ok then by by.
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Too right there would be more of a hoo ha!\nThe problem seems to stem from an area in Glasgow called Pollokshields in which there seems to have developed a Pakistani Ghetto.\n\nThis ghetto area is effectively a no-go area for Whites. According to police chief on channel 4 news his officers "pussyfoot" around this area afraid to challenge individuals in case a riot is caused.\nLocal youths and older criminals play the "race card" to effectively raise themselves above the law.\nUnfortunately for the vast majority of peaceful asians living in Glasgow there may be repercussions for the murder of a 15yr old by three grown men.\n\nIf we live in a tolerant and equal society all citizens must be treated equally. This is obviously not the case in parts of Pollokshields Glasgow. No one should be above the law.\n\nIn my mind the fact that the three of them fled the country to escape justice is an admission of guilt.\nThankfully the authorities in Pakistan returned the Murderers to Britain to face court.\n\nJustice Has been Done!
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It's interesting that in the U.K., defending oneself against a violent crime is a crime itself.  The government goes lightly against criminals, while offering counseling for those who've been victims of crime.
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Not at all, hooliganism has been pretty much stamped out, in the top flight and at international level anyway. There will always be people making trouble but the majority of fans are families and the middle classes so trouble is kept to a minimum (maybe they kick off when they can't find parking??) Millwall fans still fight but now they just attack people outside the grounds and on the other six days of the week.......I have not seen the movie but I used to go to Chelsea as a kid in the 80's and it sometimes got preety crazy! I saw a man in a relly clean and neat suit throw a dustbin through a car windscreen once.........
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Just to put the record straight,the three "immigrants" in question had 36 convictions *between* them. Yes, they were given life sentences,but the judge ordered them to be deported after serving their sentence. \n\n**LONDON (Reuters) - Three members of a gang of armed robbers "addicted to violence" have been sentenced to life in jail after terrorising London streets.\nThe group, whom police described as one of the "most violent street robbery gangs to operate in London in recent years" subjected their victims to brutal attacks during a three-month campaign last year.\nThe gang would abduct strangers from the street before stealing their valuables and bank cards. Those who resisted revealing their PIN numbers were threatened with guns and knives and viciously beaten.\nOne suffered a fractured cheekbone, which required the insertion of a metal plate, while another is still receiving medical treatment after being repeatedly hit in the face.\nOn Monday, all four men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob at Wood Green Crown Court, north London, and were sentenced to a total of 45 years.\nUnemployed Robert Lincoln, 18, from Barking, was told he should serve at least 14 years, after which he should be deported to Jamaica.\nPedro Frota, 19, also unemployed from Barking, was told he should serve 12-1/2 years and be deported to Portugal.\nUnemployed Sofian Majera, 22, from Dagenham, was given 14 years and told he should be deported to Rwanda.\nThe only member of the gang to avoid a life sentence was Luis Frota, 23, also from Barking, who was sentenced to 4-1/2 years, after which the judge recommended he be deported to Portugal.\nDetective Inspector Lloyd Gardner, of London's crime squad, said: "This gang were one of the most violent street robbery gangs to operate in London in recent years.\n"They used extreme violence on their victims, who were put through a terrifying ordeal."\nThe gang carried out 24 attacks between September and December 2005, often targeting passengers as they left tube and train stations.\nJudge Witold Pawlak, passing sentence, said: "These men were addicted to violence and treated their victims like they were characters in an arcade game."**
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this site has listed IRA incidents\ncain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/violence/majinc.htm
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I don't even know where to start. Ok the good news things are a lot better now. There's a cease fire and the IRA have been giving up their weapons, trouble is the Loyalists don't believe that so there's still no power sharing going on in Northern Ireland. Add to that the last power sharing executive was broken up by an alleged Sinn Fein spy ring which actually turned out to be a British spy ring and you'll see why we're a long way from resolving this. The British Government know a lot less about what's going on than their own Army do. Oh, they would never admit to it being a war either, they call it terrorism, but that's what they all do, right George W?
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Lecture delivered by Minister Hiroyuki Kishino at the Local Government Centre (CLAIR)'s Japan Day Seminar in Belfast \n(http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/speech/060206_JLGC.html)\n\nJapan-UK Relations and Northern Ireland  \n\nDistinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, \n\nIt is a great pleasure for me to have come back to Belfast after a ten-year interval, the hometown of that great footballer, George Best. I really feel at home amid Belfast's splendid architecture and the beautiful scenery nearby. At the same time I sense that the buds of economic and social dynamism just visible ten years ago are really blooming now. I am most pleased to see you all at this Japan Day Seminar, which I believe provides an important occasion for me to learn more about Northern Ireland and to keep you updated on Japan-UK relations. \n\nAs Deputy Chief of Mission at the Japanese Embassy I have the agreeable duty of facilitating better mutual understanding between the British and Japanese peoples and of promoting the overall Japan-UK relationship. What does this mean? We often say that the main problem facing us here is that there is no pressing issue between Japan and the UK! This is not a joke, but witness to the fact that Japan-UK relations have never been better. The primary mission for us, therefore, is not necessarily to engage in trouble-shooting in the bilateral context but to formulate and coordinate policies on what Japan and the UK should do for the benefit of our two peoples as well as for the peace and stability of the world. This is a forward-looking and pleasant duty to fulfil - a real luxury only granted to those posted to a capital like London. \n\nOverall, Japan-UK relations today are solid and mature. They are functioning smoothly, based upon market mechanisms and subject to the rule of law. Government intervention is rarely required. In business, tourism, culture, education and most other respects, our ties are refreshingly free of major areas of concern. In this sense, the Thatcher government's determined approach to the Japanese government and business sector in the 1980s in pursuit of direct investment from Japan in the UK, notably by Nissan in Sunderland, has acquired anecdotal status. Meanwhile, it is seldom recalled these days that the Japanese and British governments quietly coordinated their efforts so as to come up with a final settlement of the liquor tax issue after the WTO panel had ruled against Japan in the mid-1990s. The records of these episodes are now filed away somewhere, gathering dust. \n\nMore relevant today is the fact that about 1,200 Japanese companies are operating in the UK as good corporate citizens, having put down deep roots in their respective communities. They have created around 90,000 jobs. Indeed, a number of these companies, some of them household names, go about their business as they always have done; therefore, few people are aware that they have Japanese owners. In the fashion world DAKS and Aquascutum come to mind, while Leicester-based Freed, a world-class manufacturer of toe shoes, is another example. The UK continues to be the most favoured destination in Europe for Japanese direct investment. Just last week, for example, the large pharmaceutical company Eisai announced a 75-million pound new investment in Hertfordshire. \n\nIn Northern Ireland four Japanese companies have business operations, and two of them are engaged in research and development in high-tech fields - a growing trend today. I am pleased to note that they have expanded their activities over the past decade through the enlargement of production facilities and in other ways. In addition, three Japanese companies have business tie-ups in research and development here. Yet I must say that, compared with the other regions in the UK, Japan's business presence in Northern Ireland is modest in scale even when the size of the region is taken into consideration. How come, one may ask? I do not have a s
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I live in the UK, and the newspapers I read are certainly critical of Israel, but also condemn Palestinian suicide bombings. People here definitely have a different view of Israel than the Americans I know. A few years back a group of Palestinians came to Edinburgh and was hosted by a youth organisation I'm part of. However, I don't think it was a particularly constructive endeavour, as it turned out our visitors were wealthy and priviledged, hardly representative of Palestinians, and had a tendency to steal.
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I have friends who have vacationed there and have had no trouble. I've heard it is an astoundingly beautiful country. I does have its problems like any other country. Would you walk at night in some areas of Washington DC? Hell! And that's the nation's capital. Every country has its own dangerous places. Right in Berlin, where they are celebrating the World Cup, they have designated some "NO GO" zones. If you venture into one of these, you could be lynched just for having skin that isn't the right shade of white.
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Good question...I cant decide if they're becoming more hostile or there is more media coverage of it ...when I was younger (that makes me sound really old)..neither I nor my parents worried too much about any of that..we never locked our doors...if I were in any trouble I could go to any neighbours house,etc..and we lived in a city...maybe we just didn't see it if it was happening...now I find the world more frightening.