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Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1986

"It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior."
- George Santayana.
(Paul Crispin)

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