Green Tea - 6/12/2013 16:55
James06 - 6/12/2013 16:19
A freedom fighter I think, is someone who fights for what is right. For example, democracy in a situation where the majority are oppressed by the few.
Mandela was therefore a freedom fighter.
Nothern Ireland is democratic, the majority of people there are pro british. Therefore the likes of Martin McGuinness, as a minority, going against democracy, are terrorists.
This is why it's fair that Mandela won his fight, gained freedom, albeit long overdue, and earned his place in power. And why mcGuiness lost his fight was hanged and never got anywhere near british parliament......... hmm yeah something went wrong there!
The problem is that the Catholics that were living in NI were suppressed by the British = protestants. They were treated as 2nd class citizens(which is how you can look at the blacks in SA during Mandela's youth). So people like Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams stood up to fight for these Irish Catholics living in NI. The RUC - were also mainly British in those days and they too tended to side with the British.
Catholics being beaten by RUC were common, nobody was fighting for their cause. So underground tactics were deployed against the British, the RUC and any members of the British armed forces, this on both sides of the seas.
If you are the minority with nowhere the near the arsenal that the country/people suppressing you and you family have - then you really only have three options;
1, Voice your concerns.
2, Give up your birth right and who you are.
3, Fight with whatever means you have for who you are.