I would love to have been present if you had had the temerity to address my aunt with such impertinence. She would have improved your time with a short history of British terrorism of the Irish. I have no doubt she would have improved your manners if not your intellectual honesty.
For my part, I will content myself with pointing out that you have no grounds whatsoever to allege that "my" dollars were going anywhere, much less to to a "stalinist/leninist terrorist group."
It might be cool, fun, ironic even, for you to recollect this. You have no idea of my relationship with my aunt who was abiding within the law, no idea of my advice to her, no idea of my opinion, then or now, of the Irish question, yet you presume to publicly take this tone with some one whose previous post could only lead a less arrogant reader to conclude that I was inquiring after the very fact of communist taint which you attribute to me.
It might be "cool" and certainly refreshing in your case for you to reflect on your ignorance before accusing others of present day crimes and indicting those who had absolutely no participation of any kind in the non-crime crime.
“She would have improved your time with a short history of British terrorism of the Irish”
I got this alot while in the US, but it seems that Americans have difficulty in fully understanding the intensity of the Troubles and the thousands of lives they cost. I will not deny that the UK government has in the past (some 80-100 yearsa back) acted in a barbaric manner towards the Irish, but this is not now, nor ten years back.
The same argument as you made for your aunt can be applied today concerning the Arabs, Persians and Islam. No doubt they could teach each of us of the ills that the West has visited upon them, but that doesn’t give them the right to finance Islamic terrorism right?
Hypocrisy man, you can’t excuse family for financing terrorism against the English (although, most of the deaths from IRA, PIRA, were Irish Nationals), just imagine is the roles were reversed, you would be equally put out. Given too that the IRA bombed by home town, I have no sympathy for those who come out in support of the IRA terrorist group as it was.