saddam's evil coz he murders kids, page-18

thats an interesting point Fallguy, because i was just reading something that is very pertinent to the current situation here, and has every chance of being this country's Northern Ireland Syndrome.

"Proud to be part of the troubles

During the 1970’s children were really involved in paramilitary youth wings. Belonging to such groups was a way to respond to conformity. Not being involved reflected exclusivity, and it was perceived as odd. In 1990 Michael McLoughlin (a former chairman of Dungannon council) made a realistic remark about child gang fighting in Belfast, the predominant area of child gang fighting in all of Northern Ireland:

“These young people have learned all their politics, their attitudes to society, growing up in segregated schools, segregated housing estates and segregated youth clubs. They never meet, and they’ve never met. I don’t expect them to be any different to what they are. They are entrenched attitudes on both sides. I don’t expect that to change overnight.”

This is a true comment about Northern Ireland. Children are raised learning family values, and they are told stories that have pejorative connotation on the opposite group. They inoculate all that information, they accept it, and they act warfare like as a consequence of those entrenched norms and values. In times of trouble, such as in Northern Ireland, when the goal is to defend the group’s identity, and when children are encouraged by adults to take part in the conflict, children deliberately choose violence as a resort to obtain results, and achieve what the group wants. If it is to throw stones and pipe bombs to the opponent they will because they feel pride in their actions, even more so when those actions are given heroic recognition. In a sense they feel as if they are pursuing their father’s footsteps, and they receive a manly feeling from those rebellious actions.

Our turn is coming..