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Old 05-09-2007, 05:00 PM
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"Right after 9/11 the IRA funding absolutely dried up. I lived in NYC and saw the coffee cans behind every Iraish bar for "the cause" those cans dissappeared on 9/12 and have never come back. Irish/Americans were the main/only source of funding for the IRA and that funding absolutely dried up. The IRA simpley has no more backers and that is why they are disarming"

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Never truer words were spoken. I won't get into the other stuff, like which foreigner allegedly did most to bring peace, because it's far too boring.

As much as I am happy about peace in Ireland, I am extremely aggrieved that common criminals and murderers get away with minimal prison time as part of the peace agreement.
Amnesty at it's best. You've got to love that word.....if you're a criminal.
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The scales won't be truly in balance until every English soldier and Protestant cop who beat the ever loving snot out of some teen or 20 something for looking like a terrorist gets his day in court. We all know that's never going to happen. Too many of those 'common criminals' have died of old age. However some are willing to accept unbalanced justice if it means moving on.

Funny how so many who rail against the made up Spanish 'invasion' of this country are so quick to just accept the actual invasion and occupation of another country by an ally.
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The scales won't be truly in balance until every English soldier and Protestant cop who beat the ever loving snot out of some teen or 20 something for looking like a terrorist gets his day in court. We all know that's never going to happen. Too many of those 'common criminals' have died of old age. However some are willing to accept unbalanced justice if it means moving on.

Funny how so many who rail against the made up Spanish 'invasion' of this country are so quick to just accept the actual invasion and occupation of another country by an ally.
There are plenty of Loyalist paramilitary types who fit your description and who could be tried. The problem is that they, too, have been granted an amnesty, with full licence to deal drugs, murder, intimidate, collect protection money and generally behave like pond scum.

Just for the record, I despise the IRA and their Loyalist equivalents. They act as if they are freedom fighters, when their only recent contribution to the struggle was to kill innocent people on both sides. Their deliberate and cynical targeting of civilians removes any moral legitimacy, IMHO, something that isn't justified by previous crimes committed by the British and their allies.

I'd be fine with a United Ireland, but only where the majority of both communities agreed to it. Otherwise, we create more problems than we solve. But then, I was born to an Irish mother and went to Mass as a small child.

I'd suggest that the Anglo Saxon invasion of America should be addressed, but then there are far too many of you that we don't want back.

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