The peace process worked "badly" for the Irish??? No doubt, we should load all of the Protestants onto boats and send them back to Scotland and England, because their ancestors only arrived in the north of Ireland three centuries ago. No doubt, we should go on with endless rounds of sectarian violence, along the lines of throwing bombs at children going to school, as we saw in the last week, until the settlers leave. No doubt, killing each other because we are Catholics or Protestants, Jews or Moslems, is far preferable to a solution where we recognize that neither of us is going to disappear, or be driven, into the sea, and that we must figure out how to live in peace.
There is no future outside of a peace process, and this is one person of Irish descent who will take that imperfect peace process any day of the week.
Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 212-98-6869
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --
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