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30 Years Of The IRA's Armed Struggle

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wasp69:

--- Quote from: dmf777 on June 01, 2015, 02:29:32 AM ---I believe the original one (from 1916) served a noble purpose. And I believe the IRA from "The Troubles" era was controversial, but still, I do find their cause to be just (though it depends on one's perspective of the matter).

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The IRA perfected the tactic of using car bombs.  I hope you and yours never become victims of this particular practice, your "perspective" notwithstanding.

wasp69:

--- Quote from: txradioguy on June 01, 2015, 05:03:46 AM ---So...for those playing along at home so far our alleged "Christian Conservative":

Plays the moral equivalency card when it comes to Radical Islam.

Supports the actions of Mandela and the African National Congress

Defends the actions of the Irish Republican Army.


Doesn't sound very Christian or Conservative to me.


What's next?  A loving treatise on the oppression of the Palestinians by Israel?

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Like I said, this troll is here to mock Conservatism and Christianity.  In my own observation, it is nothing of which it claims and the sooner it is flushed, the better.

dmf777:

--- Quote from: Big Dog on June 04, 2015, 09:08:16 AM ---Justify this, numb nuts:
May 29, 2014: The IRA set off a bomb in the lobby of the Everglades Hotel in Derry.
January 18, 2011 and October 13, 2011: The IRA set off two bombs at the Culture Office in Derry.
October 4, 2010: the IRA set off a bomb outside the Ulster Bank in Derry.
July 26, 2010: The IRA shot up a pub in Dublin.
August 29, 2009: The IRA planted an IED near a school in Armagh. The bomb was successfully defused.

How about this oldie but goodie:
August 27, 1979: Louis Lord Mountbatten, his two grandsons, and the boys' grandmother were killed.



They're all dead, and your "freedom fighters" did it.

Go on, justify it.

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I suppose bringing up the countless victims of a nuclear holocaust wrought on the innocent Japanese civilians by America, or the massacre in Vietnam where over 300 civilians were shot or bayoneted to death in My Lai by America wouldn't sway you? 
Or the Gnadenhutten Massacre where 96 innocent Indians were scalped and killed, regardless of the fact they were peaceful and neutral in the current fight?
Freedom is never free, and civilians die in every war. I'm not justifying killing civilians, but just as we say when we defend Israel in it's fight against the Palestinians, collateral damage is impossible to avoid.
The Catholics were being pushed around and discriminated against by the British Protestants and they wanted the Queen out of Ireland. They did what they thought they had to do to achieve that goal and their freedom.
The IRA's armed campaign caused the deaths of approximately 1,800 people. The dead included around 1,100 members of the British security forces, and about 640 civilians.
Mountbatten was never seen as an ordinary civilian. The British never saw him as an ordinary civilian so why should the IRA? He was a member of the Royal Family, the family that sits at the head of British Government. Obviously if the IRA could assassinate him then this would be seen as a great coup. But unfortunately the events of the day led to the killing of innocent people and so his killing was celebrated like a success.
Also, the modern IRA I speak of is the one that is known as the PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army), who stopped pursuing violence and now pursues "purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means." The IRA that continues killing and bombing today is, in my opinion, terrorism because there is no need for violence anymore as everyone has moved past the issues of the Troubles.

obumazombie:
^You're either dense, obstinate, stupid, ignorant, or fully committed to the lib agenda.
Which is it ?

Big Dog:

--- Quote from: dmf777 on June 04, 2015, 03:26:34 PM ---
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Wow, I never knew a sheep could bleat so long without taking a breath. What was that, 750 words? I stopped reading when I saw the false moral equivalency in your first paragraph.

So, lets's try it again. I'll even spot you Mountbatten, just to make it easy for you. In 25 words or less, justify the murder of Mountbatten's grandsons and their elderly grandmother, and the bombing of schools , hotels, and tourism/culture offices. Bonus points if you can justify the Harrod's bombing of 1983.

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