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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (96247)2/21/2005 11:34:06 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
It doesn't really matter how many sweet innocent children you have (even one named Grainne!) in regard to whether you are in the IRA or not. Most of the Provos had/have wives and several children, and are farmers or work at some occupation in addition to being terrorists/freedom fighters. As I recall, McGuiness has three or four children.

As right as I think the struggle in Northern Ireland has been for the oppressed Catholic minority, and no matter how much I utterly despise the Protestant squatters, the violence seems to have taken on a life of its own. There have been stories even of really yucky serial killer types on both sides who get involved just in order to kill people. And there is no doubt that the IRA rules some of the Catholic neighborhoods with violence.

You probably noticed in the article I posted that McGuiness didn't call the man who reported that he was in the IRA a liar, because he could be sued under the libel laws. I don't think it is unknown at this point that Mc Guiness was (or possibly is) an IRA commander. The papers are certainly reporting that. He acknowledges being one in the past. The question is when (or if) he stopped being active in the IRA and moved completely to government service as a representative of Sinn Fein. I think on the Irish street the IRA and Sinn Fein are very closely linked--a two-headed snake if you are a cynic or on the other side. A more interesting question in my mind is what Gerry Adams' real role is in the IRA at this time.

All of that could be true and the Protestants still could have framed them re the bank robbery. Their paramilitary organizations are just as brutal, and there has been a lot of backing by the Northern Ireland police as well.

There is really no alternative explanation for the stabbing death of Mr. McCartney.
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