Posted on 03/09/2005 6:05:20 AM PST by Rogers324
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -- The United States has demanded that the IRA disband after the guerrilla group's astonishing offer to shoot the killers of a murdered Northern Ireland Catholic man. "It's time for the IRA to go out of business," U.S. special envoy Mitchell Reiss said Wednesday. For the IRA's political ally Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland's biggest Irish nationalist party, the U.S. demand was yet another blow to its democratic credentials. Reiss told BBC radio: "It's time for Sinn Fein to be able to say explicitly, without ambiguity, without ambivalence, that criminality will not be tolerated. "You can't sign up for the rule of law a la carte." The IRA's offer -- also condemned by London and Dublin -- handed fresh ammunition to Protestant rivals who say Sinn Fein is not fit for government until the Irish Republican Army disarms and disbands. The killing of Robert McCartney by a gang including IRA members has plunged the IRA and Sinn Fein into crisis -- coming just weeks after the guerrilla group was blamed for a £26.5 million ($50 million) bank raid in central Belfast. London and Dublin say there can be no progress on restoring the British-ruled province's regional government -- set up under a 1998 peace deal to share power between divided Protestants and Catholics -- until the issue of IRA criminality is resolved. Home rule was suspended in 2002 when unionists, who support ties to Britain, said they would no longer sit in government with Sinn Fein until the IRA got rid of the weapons which sustained its three-decade campaign against British rule. "It is their declared intent to murder," said hardline Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley in response to the IRA move.
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No, you have to stop supporting terrorism.
There's a lotta hate to go around, and like many blacks in this country there is always going to be a following when someone says one's problems in life are due to THOSE PEOPLE and the emotional support will be there for acts of terror, which are about emotion. I'm not siding with the Brits completely, but in this one area I do. Blowing up innocent people is what terrorists do; that's what these scum do. They're terrorists.
by this logic does that mean amercia should be given back to the native tribes and mexico and that if u know what country ur forefathers came from you should go back there?
If you're on the side of terrorists, you're on the wrong side, period.
Yes, but Ulster was created so that the loyalists, mainly protestants, could remain part of the UK. The IRA is trying to force unification even though the majority in Ulster doesn't want it. That's my point.
I'm not even sure that the south wants it either.
IRA must disband now and that is right. They support and work with Hamas and other ISLAMIC terrorist organizations. Support for the IRA is support for Hamas!
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Leave it to HappyGal to spot a troll!
Your post #20 is nice!
Clear and concise as usual.
Haha! From that list of names, this guy seems beyond being a simple troll.
The term MPD comes to mind. *snicker*
And who can eat that "boiled dinner" slop? Ugh! And they say the British eat bad food.
> I always make it a point to wear ORANGE on
> March 17. Next week will be no exception.
Damn! I thought I was the only one!
"What bothers me, the british killed millions of Irish from 1700-1916...."
geez this sounds like ward churchill or something with his Americans have had blood on their hands for centuries - Indians and slaves.
IRA are terrorists in the here and now and should not be tolerated
> Me too. It's ridiculous! For this reason among others, I always make it a point to wear ORANGE on March 17. Next week will be no exception.
That's so cool!
So, we can expect to see you lads during the upcoming Marching Season in Ulster this year, then?
My friends in England could give a rat's arse about Northern Ireland, and, frankly, most don't even consider them English.
Try spending a tenner from Northern Ireland in England proper and see what happens.
"I would like to see the Brits and US demand that ALL paramilitaries disarm, and require the British Goverment to acknowledge the UVF and its splinter groups as terrorist organizations on the level with the IRA."
They have. You should maybe try reading the newapapers some time.
The whole sectarians thing is avoided by most people in the south. It rears its head in the north, in Soctland and in N. Ireland maybe.
Personally I think everyone in NI needs to get on with the democratic process. I am supporting this process by drinking lots of Guinness and being nice to Irish people.
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