User talk:DBE

Official IRA and Stalinism
Thanks for your explanation at Talk:Official IRA, I'm now satisfied that your edit was in good faith and I apologize for my previous accusation of POV. "Stalinist" is quite a heavily loaded term, and is often used as a perjorative, so it's best to avoid it (except in cases when the organization in question explicitly applies it to themselves). I'd suggest describing the OIRA as "Marxist" in other articles, and including a paragraph describing their Stalinist tendencies in their main article? Demiurge 14:05, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

(Roman) Catholic Church
Would you like to make some corrections yourself to your changes in the Roman Catholic Church article, rather than have others do it?

You have unfortunately confused two senses of the word “rite”:
 * 1) (a)  “Rite” in the sense of a Church that (within Catholic unity and full communion with the see of Rome) has its own canon law etc. (the Second Vatican Council called these Churches “particular Churches or rites”);
 * 2) (b)  “rite” in the sense of a liturgical rite.  (Milan uses its own liturgical rite, but isn’t a Rite or particular Church in the first sense.)

So I would suggest you undo the changes you made because of that confusion from the singular “rite” to the plural “rites”.

You must certainly undo your false attribution to the Vatican yearbook “Annuario Pontificio” of your list of rites. The text that you have replaced was a faithful translation. I can send you the original Italian text if you doubt it.

Unless you correct at least these mistakes, I fear someone will simply revert to the text that there was before you made your alterations, regardless of the worth of your other changes.

Lima 12:39, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Norwood, Bronx, New York
First of all, thanks for the contributions to the article you gave. Glad to see someone noticed that posting, and glad to see that there's some perspective.

Re: NORAID and all that jazz - I understand the issue of the support of some Irish-in-America for the IRA to be a controversial issue (as it's frequently used to put down the Republican cause generally). However, to just dismiss American arms smuggling into Ireland is just plain silly. There've been well documented cases of it with regard to the IRA, and it's certainly possible to arm a paramilitary off of our easily bought guns and ammo (just for perspective: I happen to know for a fact that a number of Albanians here who were arming themselves before joining up with the KLA, simply by going to one sporting goods shop here in the Bronx).

Also, regarding rumors: I think almost every Irish businessman had some rumor going around about them being an IRA member. There's a longstanding Bronx tradition whereby whoever's the latest to come into the neighborhood is rumored to be supporting some armed group, whether it's Irish and the IRA, Italians and the Mafia, Albanians and the KLA, or more recently the Bangladeshis and al-Qaeda. As much as I wish it was only a few Irish who were rumored to be IRA members, you're seriously underestimating American bigotry if you think that only "some" got that treatment.--Daniel 03:17, September 8, 2005 (UTC)