Dissidents arrested in Cork for alleged arms activity.

[st333ve]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7260310.stm

Seven suspected dissident republicans have been arrested in Cork in the Irish Republic.
Four men were arrested by detectives in the Lover's Walk and Montenotte area of Cork City at about 2000 GMT on Friday.

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Why in a time when republicanism has gained so much and is working so hard to create a better island, do people still desire to destroy all that has been achieved through violence?

What is the point, are these people stupid?
Dont they realise these actions are counter productive?
What can they possibly achieve?
Do they even have a strategy beyond the 'kill all bad-guys and win' theory?

[toxic avenger]

That'll get the well-heeled denizens of Monte-snotty all in a tizz, they'll be talking about it over their frappuccinos for a month...

[Carrier]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7260310.stm

Seven suspected dissident republicans have been arrested in Cork in the Irish Republic.
Four men were arrested by detectives in the Lover's Walk and Montenotte area of Cork City at about 2000 GMT on Friday.

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Why in a time when republicanism has gained so much and is working so hard to create a better island, do people still desire to destroy all that has been achieved through violence?

What is the point, are these people stupid?
Dont they realise these actions are counter productive?
What can they possibly achieve?
Do they even have a strategy beyond the 'kill all bad-guys and win' theory?

What has republicanism gained in terms of its central goal of acheiving a united Ireland? Tell me specifically in what way that goal has been brought closer since SF accepted the principal of consent - which effectively handed the decision as to whether there would be a united Ireland to the unionist community.

And yes, they do have a strategy - resist British rule by force of arms. Not a fan of it?

It's a shame to hear of more republicans being arrested. Although, at this stage, when fellow republicans openly encourage people to go squelling to the cops should they come across information about those who seek to resist British rule in Ireland by force of arms, it's pretty much inevitable.

[Alliance]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7260310.stm

Seven suspected dissident republicans have been arrested in Cork in the Irish Republic.
Four men were arrested by detectives in the Lover's Walk and Montenotte area of Cork City at about 2000 GMT on Friday.

-------------------------

Why in a time when republicanism has gained so much and is working so hard to create a better island, do people still desire to destroy all that has been achieved through violence?

What is the point, are these people stupid?
Dont they realise these actions are counter productive?
What can they possibly achieve?
Do they even have a strategy beyond the 'kill all bad-guys and win' theory?

What has republicanism gained in terms of its central goal of acheiving a united Ireland? Tell me specifically in what way that goal has been brought closer since SF accepted the principal of consent - which effectively handed the decision as to whether there would be a united Ireland to the unionist community.

And yes, they do have a strategy - resist British rule by force of arms. Not a fan of it?

It's a shame to hear of more republicans being arrested. Although, at this stage, when fellow republicans openly encourage people to go squelling to the cops should they come across information about those who seek to resist British rule in Ireland by force of arms, it's pretty much inevitable.

[Rebelman]

That'll get the well-heeled denizens of Monte-snotty all in a tizz, they'll be talking about it over their frappuccinos for a month...

you obviously don't know the geography, they will claim it happened in mayfield

[toxic avenger]

They were apparently going to kidnap someone to extort money. That kind of sh1t needs lengthy jail sentences or every f*cker with a cause in the country will be trying it. How dare these little bastards tell the rest of the country that they can do what they want and our democratic opinion doesn't count.

Stamp on fascism before it stamps on you.

[merle haggard]

. How dare these little bastards tell the rest of the country that they can do what they want and our democratic opinion doesn't count.

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if you call it the principle of consent its much more palatable

[Apparatchik]

Stamp on fascism before it stamps on you.

Ok these were dissidents but the Sinn Fein vote in May, reflected this sentiment. A leopard doesn't change its spots: kneecapping and Garda killing amounts to fascist politics.

[Unbeatable South Derry]

Stamp on fascism before it stamps on you.

Ok these were dissidents but the Sinn Fein vote in May, reflected this sentiment. A leopard doesn't change its spots: kneecapping and Garda killing amounts to fascist politics.

Why are Irelands original fascists still around then?

[merle haggard]

Stamp on fascism before it stamps on you.

Ok these were dissidents but the Sinn Fein vote in May, reflected this sentiment. A leopard doesn't change its spots: kneecapping and Garda killing amounts to fascist politics.

no it doesnt . A desire for a corporate state and extreme right wing politial ideology , often accompanied by racism amounts to fascst politics . Defending working class areas from exploitation by drug dealers and defending yourself from state agencies using physical force does not come under the definition of fascism in any political discourse ive ever read.