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- kingkong0
You know the whole Gerry Adams IRA thing gets on my nerves these days. It's like the whole thing never happened.
I grew up in Preston and Warrington and come from Galway, so im well qualified to comment having been surrounded by bombs going off all over the north west. Spent most of my time being beaten up as a kid in school for being a terrorist :)
To quote him strikes me as odd and all the papers did yesterday.
"Murdering terrorist cunt gerry adams didnt like it when thatcher went after him." He wasn't a freedom fighter, just a thug much like most of his mates.
Funny how the IRA more or less disappeared overnight after 9/11. Somehow their main source of funding being east coast Irish groups in the USA, didn't think it would be that smart to fund a terrorist organisation
Irony is that Irish americans still laud him, but as an Irish Briton so to speak I despise that bloke.
It one of the things she got absolutely spot on. "We'll talk when you renounce violence"
- +1, it's hypocritical for either side to lay the blame t the feet of the others - shit was centuries of festering..detritus
- ..which is to say, he should'ver been the bigger guy and just shut the fuck up. Of course, he's not though.detritus
- totally, but i'd say thatcher's policies here could be partly responsible for his rise to credibility/ cross to mainstream politics.kingsteven
- also, that 'we'll talk when you renounce violence' really worked out for her eh? in the mean time we'll intern your supporterskingsteven
- supporters - all martyrs in the making. driving the poorest from both communities irreconcilably apart.kingsteven
- so yeah, still very much 'happening'.kingsteven
- Still festering, just politically in a quiet patch. It'll flare up again when one side or another sees the other getting an advantage.mikotondria3
- +1 kingkonggoldieboy