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Thread: SF/IRA's current credibility problem

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    SF/IRA's current credibility problem

    You can fool all of the people some of the time,
    You can fool some of the people all of the time.
    But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
    Not even Irish Americans, apparently.

    www.nysun.com/article/15853

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    By flogging a dead horse aka the Belfast agreement they are fooling themselves by the look of it

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    Re: SF/IRA's current credibility problem

    Quote Originally Posted by pogo
    You can fool all of the people some of the time,
    You can fool some of the people all of the time.
    But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
    Not even Irish Americans, apparently.

    www.nysun.com/article/15853
    They seem to be able to fool the right people though-Bertie and Blair, thats the important thing. Look how McDowell has been told to butt out of the situation. Peter King did support the IRA's war, so square the circle if you can.

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    I was going to read it but seen Ed Maloney was the author.

    Does he get back into his Gerry Adams fetish in that article could someone tell me?

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    One of the most interesting parts of the article is at the very end, which suggests that King's distancing of himself from the IRA may result from other motives than simply seeing the pure light of peace and reason:

    Mr. King - who lives in Seaford, Long Island, with his wife, Rosemary, and has two adult children and one grandchild - is these days more concerned about American Republicans than the Irish variety. He frets about the GOP's woeful recent electoral performances in New York. While his name is mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate, he says he won't run - but speculation persists that he has ambitions for a statewide post.

    Saying goodbye to the IRA after the attacks of September 11, 2001, may be a necessity, but it also could be an important rite of passage in Mr. King's political journey. "I see a maturation there," said Mr. Dillon said. The Nassau D.A. was there when Mr. King began his affair with the IRA.
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    I could't get into the article to view it, but if it's true about Pete King going cold on republicans (which I still don't quite believe), then it just shows he is as false as Ted Kennedy. To be frank, I would be delighted to get the monkey of right-wing Irish America off our backs. We should allign ourselves with the Mick O' Reilly's of this world, not the Pete Kings.
    "John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."

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    Dod, it won't be long before Adams goes cold on the IRA. Who's Mick O Reilly?
    Just 1 gram of cocaine destroys 4m2 of tropical rainforest. Give it up ya selfish b'stards.

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    I'm not talking so much about the IRA as the republican movement in general. The IRA isn't the key player in republicanism anymore. Mick O' Reilly is the Irish head of the ATGWU.
    "John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by DOD
    I'm not talking so much about the IRA as the republican movement in general. The IRA isn't the key player in republicanism anymore. Mick O' Reilly is the Irish head of the ATGWU.
    But hasn't King only spoken out against thr PIRA?
    Just 1 gram of cocaine destroys 4m2 of tropical rainforest. Give it up ya selfish b'stards.

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    Maybe so. As I said, I couldn't access the article.
    "John Bull has got his hand down your pants and his fist around your bollox and you can't see it."

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