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IRA NOW OFFERING TO KILL OWN MEMBERS

That upstart J.F. Beck has only been in the blogging game for five minutes and he’s already getting written up by The Guardian:


It is Bolton’s contemptuous attitude towards international treaties and multilateral organisations that wins favour with the right. The RWDB blog quotes approvingly from a Right Web profile that calls Bolton a “treaty killer” and believes he is the right man for the job.

Speaking of contemptuous international attitudes and The Guardian, how did that Operation Clark County work out? Is John Kerry president yet? Also in The Guardian, weird IRA news:

The IRA offered to shoot the men involved in the murder of Robert McCartney but his family refused the use of violence, republicans said last night.

In a five-page statement, the IRA gave its most detailed account yet of Mr McCartney’s brutal murder saying four men were behind the killing, two of whom were its members …

That the IRA felt forced to make such a macabre offer shows the pressure they feel within their own communities, which they effectively police, and where there has sometimes been tacit support of punishment beatings of local criminals.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/09/2005 at 06:18 AM
  1. What could more clearly show the folly of including the IRA in the political process in Northern Ireland without requiring it to disarm?

    Posted by rexie on 2005 03 09 at 07:46 AM • permalink

  2. The folly is equally obvious when one considers that the IRA is offering to kill its own people who killed a man who conflicted with the IRA somehow, presumably on orders, or at least knowledge of the IRA leadership.  Talk about conflicts of interest!

    If I were a member of the IRA, I’d be looking over my shoulder for the IRA leadership trying to stab me in the back.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 09 at 07:58 AM • permalink

  3. Or, at least start wearing kevlar knee pads and elbow guards.

    Posted by Razor on 2005 03 09 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  4. And let’s not forget that,according to the best intelligence , Adams and McGuinness are both members of the seven man IRA army council which pretty well runs the show.

    That’s the same Martin McGuinness who was education minister in the Northern Ireland assembly before its recent disbandment.

    Posted by rexie on 2005 03 09 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  5. "OK. we executed the murderers...”

    “Oh, wait, we found some new suspects...”

    “OK, we executed the murderers...”

    “This guy here seems suspicious… (How long do you think we can make the sods keep this up?)”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 09 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  6. calls Bolton a “treaty killer�
    He says that like it’s a bad thing.

    Honey, that’s not a bug, that’s a feature!  :-D

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 03 09 at 01:00 PM • permalink

  7. Was the IRA offering to off Adams and McGuinness, by any chance?

    That could be useful.

    Posted by steveH on 2005 03 09 at 03:58 PM • permalink

  8. When the IRA is answerable to the community rather than cheered on by, and protected by it, the end is in sight.
    Same goes for the Jihadists/Terrorists.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 03 09 at 06:48 PM • permalink

  9. Robert Fisk says the IRA offered to kill him once, and he agreed he deserved it…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 09 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  10. So why is Fisk still wasting oxygen?  Geez, if you can’t rely of fascistic murdering terrorists to kill the people they target who can you rely on?

    Note the mafia-type logic of the IRA.  “Some guys killed your brother so we’ll kill them, and everything will be square again, right?” Is that the sort of “law” the Irish want to live under?

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 03 10 at 02:55 AM • permalink

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