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   It was a merciful release.   
      
   Michael Collins did not belong in the Ireland that had started to take   
   shape in 1922, as prefigured by the Treaty debate in the Dail in   
   January 1922.   
      
   He would have been miserable if he had lived.   
      
   He wanted to die there and then, so as not to have to suffer twentieth   
   century Ireland.   
      
   It's a little bit like the child star syndrome, children who achieve   
   all their ambitions as child stars, so that the rest of their lives   
   are downhill all the way.   
      
   Michael Collins could not have coped with the mediocrity and   
   stagnation of early twentieth century Ireland. It would have driven   
   him insane. He was right to commit 'suicide by cop.'   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPnpo9IOlk   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)