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2005-04-08 Britain

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-08 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "IRA weighs call to give up violence"

How about disbanding altogether. I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by Slolusing Jotle7326 2005-04-08 12:37:45 AM|| 2005-04-08 12:37:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Sharks Mull Call to Become Plankton-Eaters"

Hey, it could happen...

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-08 2:27:15 AM|| 2005-04-08 2:27:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness sit on the IRA Army Council. This all appears rather schizophrenic at best and delusional madness at the worst. Meanwhile, the 'Real' IRA are apparently winding up to another mainland bombing campaign... pass me my tin hat someone.

Posted by Howard UK 2005-04-08 5:01:30 AM|| 2005-04-08 5:01:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Man, Pappy, I hurt myself laughing. Good one.

Posted by Quana 2005-04-08 7:40:56 AM|| 2005-04-08 7:40:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Does anyone truely think that if the IRA achieved a United Ireland the violence would stop. The focus would simpily shift to Dublin. A united Ireland is not nessacarly in the Republic's interest IMO

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-04-08 8:29:52 AM|| 2005-04-08 8:29:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The IRA is no longer about a united ireland. It hasn't been for awhile. To what use have all those guns and weapons been put in the last ten years?!? Violent conflicts often give power to the moronic thug element that often doesn't really have any set ideology beyond perpetuating it's own power and the profit that can be made off it. It corrupts and corrodes legitimate political views. The IRA has become semi-organized crime with a thin political veil. Sinn Fein is the only thing that gives the IRA any claim to legitimacy and Sinn Fein can't bring itself to disown the sick dog. Republicans will continue to suffer this affliction until they gather the courage to cut it out.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-08 9:33:59 AM|| 2005-04-08 9:33:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Renounce violence? But... we're Irish."

Posted by BH 2005-04-08 10:09:37 AM|| 2005-04-08 10:09:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Does anyone truely think that if the IRA achieved a United Ireland the violence would stop. The focus would simpily shift to Dublin.

According to a now very-much-former Irish girlfriend (whose family were Provos), the eventual objective was establishment of a socialist government in Dublin. I saw that sentiment echoed in one certain pub we used to visit outside D.C..

I suspect that objective has been put off indefinitely, and the IRA become a "Family business".

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-08 10:57:48 AM|| 2005-04-08 10:57:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "'Ello, my name's Bruce..."

Posted by mojo 2005-04-08 11:34:12 AM|| 2005-04-08 11:34:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Watermelon Irish Pappy.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-08 12:57:44 PM|| 2005-04-08 12:57:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Appropriate term, Ship. Heh.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-08 11:36:07 PM|| 2005-04-08 11:36:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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