Leftists defending their own.
Gerry Adams and the entire IRA are slimy, but what really disgusts me is that this was a Marxist movement that latched onto a nationalist movement and got the supporters of the latter to believe that they were one and the same.
I’m not in favor of nationalist movements either, because they’re virtually always bitter and flaky and violent, trying to achieve through violence what could be achieved through negotiation. But the radical left has been very effective in taking them over and making them even more evil.
The IRA is such a movement, as is ETA.
Time for these people to just get out of the closet and admit their Marxism, but you know they never will.
Libya, at the time, was also helping the IRA smuggle plastic explosives into NI. One of the fave ports was near Castleford (IR)....just south of Newry (NI).
Some of these groups are leftists because the right has sided with their enemy (as was the case with the Vietnamese nationalists - Ho Chi Minh was present at the Versailles peace conference in 1919 and thought they would get independence, and came away empty-handed).
Well put.
There were two branches of the IRA, the Official IRA (straight Marxists) and the Provisional IRA (or ‘Provos’) who ran their rivals right out of business. The Provos had (or perhaps still have) an inner committee of a dozen or fewer which would determine what violence, murders, and threats would be used to dispose of rivals; this included rivals within the Provos, some of whom were killed, some of whom fled, mostly to the US. Provos trained with Islamofascist terrorists in Libya and elsewhere, and conducted both random acts of public terror (like the Omagh bombing) or terrorized specific victims (threats, kneecapping) just like the criminal gang that they are.