Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Republican




The scene in the dream where I first noticed the uniformed police officer and then I displayed my Deputy United States Marshal badge reminds me a lot of the intersection of Queen Anne and Republican street in Seattle. I walked through there many times but I had no conscious idea about the names of those two streets until I just looked it up on the map. What I remember from the dream is the rise of that hill and that structure of the movie theatre. The plaza seems to be a different place though that is not too far and closer to the Space Needle. The details I remember from that dream do not really match that plaza, but hell, I could have been dreaming about my actual experiences in Mogadishu in 1993 and that has some bearing on my presence here in this Al Qaeda-infested and Al Qaeda-controlled King County Washington State and the Al Qaeda-controlled and insurgent Washington State.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1920)

Bloody Sunday (1920)

Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. In total, 31 people were killed – fourteen British, fourteen Irish civilians and three republican prisoners.

The day began with an Irish Republican Army (IRA) operation that led to fourteen deaths – this included twelve British agents/informers and two Auxiliaries. Later that afternoon, British forces opened fire on the crowd at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, killing fourteen civilians. That evening, three IRA prisoners in Dublin Castle were beaten and killed by their British captors, allegedly while trying to escape.


Bloody Sunday was one of the most significant events to take place during the Irish War of Independence, which followed the formation of a unilaterally declared Irish Republic and its parliament, Dáil Éireann. The army of the republic, the Irish Republican Army waged a guerrilla war against the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), its auxiliary organisations and the British Army, who were tasked with suppressing Irish separatism. Some members of the Gaelic Athletic Association which owned Croke Park were confirmed Nationalists, but others were not.

In response to IRA actions, the British Government formed paramilitary forces to augment the RIC, the "Black and Tans" (a nickname possibly arising from their mixture of uniforms), and the Auxiliary Division (generally known as the Auxiliaries or Auxies). The behaviour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was King George V) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and prisoners but towards Irish people in general. In Dublin, the war largely took the form of assassinations and reprisals on either side.

The events on the morning of 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in the city. It was the police that were responsible for the British reprisals on the afternoon of Bloody Sunday.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494730/quotes

IMDb

The Internet Movie Database

Memorable quotes for

"Jericho"

Pilot (2006)


Robert 'Rob' Hawkins: Excuse me, Sheriff, Robert Hawkins.

Sheriff: Well it's good to meet you Mr. Hawkins but as you can see, we have got outs hands full.

Robert 'Rob' Hawkins: Could you use an extra man?

Sheriff: No civilians, mayor's orders.

Robert 'Rob' Hawkins: Well I use to be a cop, St. Louis.

Sheriff: Do know the roads around here?

Robert 'Rob' Hawkins: No, I just moved to town.

Sheriff: Then I'm afraid you'll just slow us down, I'm sorry.