Mike Scott Rohan
The message <1le8cuc9017pqlouq4bukheembtnf702sl@4ax.com> from paulh <paulh@fahncahn.com>contains these words:

the softrat
A) Caution: David Flood is an IRA sympathizer and anything he says must be taken with a ton of salt (preferably Irish).

paulh
I'm aware of that...

Michael O'Neill
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.

paulh
Sorry..you're right.. I guess he's probably more inclined to their

their methods, from what I can gather.. I wrote in haste.

Mike Scott Rohan
To 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.