Posted on 06/02/2024 8:52:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Why any government would give in to a hunger strike is beyond me. If those troublemakers want to die, let them. It can’t be any simpler than that.
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1) The British believed he had the discipline to starve himself to death.
2) If he had died, the Indian nationalists would have unleashed hell.
Nothing similar applies in this case.
Ditto for Bobby Sands.
Blackmail should get them 2 things a one way ticket home and a lifetime ban from entering Canada
Did you ever notice that any form of hunger strike rarely works, the person gives up in order to live and their demands are not met.
Seriously, a hunger strike has to be one of the most idiotic forms of protest ever, the person striking threatens to stop eating or drinking until their demands are met, my response, go ahead and starve yourself, no one cares.
Is that anything like leaving out the Bloody Mary celery stick? Oliveless Martinis? Removing the pickles in beer? Total lifestyle change. None for me, thanks.
A good and sincere no-liquids “hunger” strike could put this mess at an end in three days. Go to it. I will support that.
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