Google| Subject | Re: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in Eng |
| From | Mike Scott Rohan |
| Date | 2002-04-23 12:52 (2002-04-23 11:52) |
| Message-ID | <2002042311522471187@asgard.zetnet.co.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | paulh |
| Followups | ?jevind L?ng (47m) Russ (3h & 34m) > Mike Scott Rohan Michael O'Neill (7h & 15m) David Flood (9h & 24m) > Mike Scott Rohan |
The message <1le8cuc9017pqlouq4bukheembtnf702sl@4ax.com> from paulh <paulh@fahncahn.com>contains these words:
Michael O'Neillthe softratpaulh
A) Caution: David Flood is an IRA sympathizer and anything he says must be taken with a ton of salt (preferably Irish).
I'm aware of that...
Floodser is Not a particularly pro-IRA head at all. Neither am I, for teh record. Most people in Ireland have a pain in their butt with being labelled Republicans and IRA heads just because they've learnt to see through the lies and whitewash of successive English Governments.
paulhTo judge by previous exchanges here, you needn't apologise too profusely. The current line for extremist republicans is "Of course I don't approve of the IRA's methods, *but*..." That routine denial made, they're free to parrot the IRA version of history, invented to greenwash those methods. All carefully obscuring one awkward little truth -- the IRA's means and the IRA's ends are one and the same. Terrorist weapons kill completely innocent people, because they're meant to; they don't work otherwise. But speaking that magic line transforms these people from blinkered racist fanatics to saddened observers. In their mirrors, anyhow; and they're not given to looking anywhere else.
Sorry..you're right.. I guess he's probably more inclined to their cause, not their methods, from what I can gather.. I wrote in haste.
Russ (3h & 34m) > Mike Scott Rohan
Michael O'Neill (7h & 15m)
David Flood (9h & 24m) > Mike Scott Rohan
2002-03-30-
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