The Saville report into Bloody Sunday

[Louis VI the Fat]

Those were the people the British Crown dealt with to create that peace.

All of the people His Majesty's Governments have ever dealt with for independence negotiations anywhere had been previously considered violent thugs, terrorists.

A few bombs explode, people get killed. Then the regular army is deployed to kill even more people, after which the Crown then negotiates a settlement - in an atmosphere of perceived moral superiority, and of concessions made to thugs, nobly granted to keep the peace.


That is how the big empire can think itself a beacon of liberty, a bastion of sanity and reason, in an otherwise insane world.