Posted on 04/09/2018 9:46:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Gerry Adams has stated that he still believes violence and the use of “armed actions” can still be justified to reach political aims — in certain circumstances.
The former Sinn Féin president gave an interview to Hamburg-based newspaper Der Spiegel (The Mirror) reflecting on The Troubles, strife in Northern Ireland, and his stance on an array of issues including the use of violence.
In the interview, which was conducted in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement — April 10th — Adams vehemently denied every shooting anyone during The Troubles or being a member of the IRA at any stage.
The politician stated that he joined Sinn Féin in response to reading what the British government had planned for Ireland in the Special Powers Act. Or as he explains it, “The people that I know didn’t go to war. The war came to us.” When pressed about his stance on violence, Adams told interviewer Jörg Schindler that he had maintains that violence may be necessary on occasion. […]
In the wake of Adams’ controversial interview, Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong publicly stated that violence is never the answer. […] “These comments are particularly galling, given they come in the week of the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. That document saw all parties commit to exclusively democratic and peaceful means. It must be devastating for the loved ones of victims of violence to hear Gerry Adams now claim murder, destruction and devastation was justified in his eyes.” …
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It's time for Gerry Adams to retire and have a beer as the country he claimed to love dissolves before his eyes.
Another friend of the Kennedys
Gerry Adams talks and encouraged others to use violence. If he really believed it, he should have taken up arms as well. Put his life on the line to liberate Ireland from British occupation. At this point, he should crawl back under his rock and STFU.
Has it only been 20 years since all The Troubles?
It seems much longer. I have no real ties to Ireland or North Ireland, but I used to year about the constant warring that went on there. As another human being, I sympathize for anyone who has to live through that. Look at Syria now.
I am amazed that there anything left to be bombed in Syria.
Philosophically speaking, he’s quite correct.
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Its needed in America.
it did wonders for Ireland /s
Gerry Adams is irrelevant in view of the moslem invasion of Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prPWMdvEMAE
Gerry Adams is a known child molester. He is a criminal and not a heroic mastermind.
Ah, the Irish... 700 years of bad decisions. Why stop now?
I don’t regard liberty as a “political aim”. So-called “political aims” are the province of demagogues who seek power for themselves.
That’s his brother, I believe. He did protect whoever the molester was. He is also suspected of giving the order to murder Jean McConville, a woman with 10 children, leaving them as orphans.
Like the US, most of Ireland is independent of England now. They used “violence and armed actions” against the same colonizer we did; not sure why an American would disagree with his statement.
The IRA,like all such bands of medieval psychopaths,seek to accomplish with bullets what they can't accomplish with ballots.
That statement is meaningless without context. Without defining the scope and meaning of a term like “political aims” it could mean anything.
It sounds to me like he is saying that the ends will always justify the means for any political goal, and that is pure Alinsky.
“I don’t regard liberty as a “political aim”
Really? Then what is it?
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Like the American Revolution, for example.
Did Bobby Sands ever get something to eat?
No parallels.
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