IRA Turning To Attacks On Gays

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/031305ulster.htm

Terrorists from the Irish Republican Army are reportedly targeting gays now that they have abandoned their war against the British government.

As the political wing of the IRA concentrates on peaceful talks about the future of Ireland with the government in London, members of the military wing in Northern Ireland have turned into marauding bands - robbing banks and beating gay men.

A gay student in Londonderry has gone into hiding after receiving threats from men he says identified themselves as IRA members.

[chicagojoe]

1. IRA, al-Qaida--- NO DIFFERENCE.

[Ian David]

2. Don't they have more important things to worry about?

Fucking idiots.

Maybe they're just upset because they're not allowed to smoke in the pubs anymore.

What a bunch of pussies. Why don't they find another ARMED enemy to attack?

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

6. Actually, in many ways you're completely right.

Remember OBL and his minions got their start in a totally separate conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After that conflict was won, they had nothing to do. Some of them went back to their homes in places like Algeria, and joined that Islamic terrorist faction which massacred all those civilians, sought to fly airliners into the Eiffel Tower. Others joined OBL and his al-qaida HQ in Afghanistan.

We could be seeing the same thing here, ennui giving birth to new directions for terrorism, though this gaybashing thing is - at the same time - both appalling and laughable (in the sense that the big, bad IRA isn't so big and bad anymore - they just pick on oppressed minorities).

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Sounds to me like they are showing themselves as thugs...

...just looking for a fight, any fight, instead of people with a cause they believe in.

[mitchtv]

5. sounds to me like English lies

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[Meeker Morgan]

16. English lies? I don't think so.

What does England get out of this story?

For that matter what is "free united Ireland" when both sides of the infamous border are members of the EU?

The IRA are simply thugs, not an ideology anymore.

[davidinalameda]

4. disgusting

the IRA used to stand for something--now they're the thugs that they've been portrayed as for all these years

[applegrove]

7. If you are a useless bunch of thugs you need an enemy to keep your

movement alive. Great! Scapegoating in hateful ways is a thing USA is teaching the world.

[Langley85]

8. IRA are terrorists

US politicians have gotten their pictures taken with IRA leaders. Americans have donated money to them. It wouldn't be ok with Al Queda, so why is it ok for the IRA? Fortunately it seems it's not ok anymore, as the IRA have pretty much destroyed any right to call themselves "freedom fighters" by attacking defenseless civilians like the common criminal thugs they are.

[IrishDemocrat]

9. I'm for Irish nationalism

But this is just cowardice. These are my ancestral people and yes they were oppressed, but this is a bad way of showing it. They expect tolerance shown to themselves and can't show it to others.

[mitchtv]

10. Franky, I read the article, and I am amazed at how it is taken

as gospel on very little information. All who call them terrorists must remember that military occupation is violence.

[Brian_Expat]

12. They're not "oppressed."

A majority of Northern Irish wish to remain British. If put to a popular vote in Northern Ireland, staying in the United Kingdom would be the choice of over 60% of the population.

All the citizens of Northern Ireland are full British nationals with passports and MPs sitting in London. All areas should be so "oppressed."

[mitchtv]

11. unlike however, the uncommon criminal thugs who call themselves

Unionists,(who never target civilians),and unlike the common English thugs who are occupying most of Ulster

[Brian_Expat]

13. The whole nationalist project is a farce.

Most people in Northern Ireland don't want to be part of the Republic, period. Most want to remain British. And most of the Republic doesn't want Northern Ireland and the problems it would bring, period.

The IRA is a remnant of the sort of racist, black-and-white ethnic nation state thinking that Europe is thankfully abandoning (albeit slowly).

[Cuban_Liberal]

18. Let me get this straight...

If we invade and conquer Ontario, dispossess the indigenous people there of their property, encourage New Yorkers and Vermonters to populate the area, hold onto it for 500 years by force of arms, fight a revolution to a standstill, gerrymander an area that includes a majority of New Yorkers and Vermonters, etc., then the indigenous people in Ontario aren't 'oppressed', simply because we give them a few Congressmen and passports in Washington?

How's that again?

:wtf:

[Brian_Expat]

19. Your comparison is ludicrous. . .

And if a strong majority (over 60%) of Ontarians in your scenario wanted to remain Americans, would it be the right of the 40% to bomb, kill, murder, rape, sell drugs and do everything else the IRA have done to "free" the 40%?

Of course not.

The IRA is a criminal gang masquerading around in the cheap and tawdry clothing of ethnic nationalist "oppression" that the extreme fringes have provided them with. Nothing more.

[Meeker Morgan]

17. unlike the common English thugs

The "Irish freedom" situation has nothing to do with the current IRA.

Indeed, what is "Irish freedom" when all are members of th EU?

The Ulster Unionists are equivalent to our Republican party (bad), but the IRA are equivalent to the Mafia (very bad).

[Ian David]

15. Why don't they just declare war on snakes?

The IRA should expend all their time and resources trying to elimate all the snakes from Ireland.

[Meeker Morgan]

14. When men claim Ireland's freedom ...

Bastards!