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It's usually the Police who initiate criminal proceedings. If you break the
criminal law then they come down upon you like a ton of bricks!

given that I have

I remember that conversation! You are quite right! I did sympathise,
empathise with and express admiration for the IRA!

Of course, that was the IRA and/or the IRB, not the PIRA or CIRA or RIRA and
that was the IRA under Collins, Brugha, Griffith, Mulcahy, Barry, Breen et
al that, though few in numbers, fought the British Empire to a standstill
and led to the establishment of Saorstat Eireann in 1922. That's a far cry
from more recent events ... which you may realise ... though I doubt it.

If you recall I did note that this was the first of the wars of liberation
in which an oppressed population could and did politically defeat a major
power by military means. Others have copied .... though not quite as well!

You obviously thought long and hard about this. Your cogitations resulted
in the formation of your current Bayanic revolutionary movement in which you
seek, as leader of a fanatical few, to overthrow the Grumpies and their
clingons. Unlike you, Collins had a semblance of intelligence and knew when
the fighting had to stop and the politicking begin. He also recognised the
limitations of victory that the war of independence did not result in great
bitterness or estrangement between the newly emergent Saorstat Eireann and
the English.

You could learn much of personal profit from a study of this period ...
though I expect you'll do neither! It's nigh impossible to convince 78
million wee white mice that their Fuhrer has anything to learn.