(May 1, 2016 at 5:07 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:(May 1, 2016 at 4:46 pm)Emjay Wrote: @Bella
What Labour MPs expressed support for the IRA, and in what context? If you don't mind me asking.
Perhaps sympathise was a better word to use. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell's sympathising and links to the Irish Republican movement has been well documented.
John McDonnell says we should honour those to have taken part in "armed struggle". John only apologised when it sparked national outrage. He called IRA volunteers "brave".
McDonnell has been documented as speaking at a commemoration service for Bobby Sands. I believe that's where he said the above stuff.
Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised to fail to condemn bombings in interviews by IRA victims. Corbyn has spoken at memorial services for dead IRA terrorists and other commemoration services for IRA "prisoners of war" and active "soldiers" of the IRA.
They're both very close to Gerry Adams and McGuinness.
But one things for sure, their determination for a United Ireland still burns strong and let me tell you right now, it won't be happening anytime soon. They'd start the fucking Troubles again.
That's fucked up. I'm half Irish, though I've never lived there, and apparently one of my relatives was shot at by the IRA during an Orange March. I've been to visit and picked up a newspaper there and I'll never forget how matter of factly, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, a mother was pleading to the IRA in an article to have mercy on her drug addicted son, who acting as a self-styled police force, they were routinely giving 'punishment beatings' on account of him being 'anti-social'. I never forgot that... it's a whole other world over there with them trying to legitimise themselves not only as freedom fighters but also as to some extent, the voice of the people. Scary stuff.