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March 10, 2005
The IRA Must Die
The US government is right: the time to disband the Irish Republican Army is now. The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organization still in existence, long outliving its original objective of ending British rule in Ireland.
Its behaviour is outrageous: refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Northern Ireland government, the IRA uses the same thug techniques to dish out vigilante “justice” and muffle dissent. It even has the balls to offer to shoot several people in its organization suspected a Belfast shooting. Not surprisingly, politicians in Eire and the UK are mortified:
Tony Blair seized the issue in the House of Commons yesterday - saying it was staggering that the IRA thought it was making amends by offering to shoot Mr McCartney's killers.
"It was quite an extraordinary thing to say. It frankly defies any description. It cannot be in any shape or form justified," he said. "There's no way we can make any progress in Northern Ireland that includes Sinn Fein unless we have a complete and total end to violence of whatever kind."
Paul Murphy, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said: "Robbing banks, killing people and racketeering has got to come to an end. We thought it would with the 1998 [Good Friday] Agreement. That transition process hasn't happened quickly enough."
In Dublin, Bertie Ahern - whose relationship with the Sinn Fein leadership is at an all-time low - admitted he was so shocked he had to re-read the IRA's statement on Tuesday.
"Sometimes you hear these things and it's hearsay, but then you actually see it in a written form," the Taoiseach said. "We all want to see justice to be done, but their response (the IRA's) to that was to eliminate three or four people. It's horrific."
Even just the concept of non-violence is foreign to the IRA. Such a group will always be a threat to peace in the British Isles, and co-existence will only lead to more violence. The days of wishing the IRA problem away are over: the time to end the menace is now.
Posted by Kelvin at March 10, 2005 12:32 AM
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