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A lot of people on Twitter are annoyed by my criticism of the Provisional IRA. To be honest, their obvious annoyance just encourages me to keep doing it. It really is my pleasure to annoy the morally bankrupt cheerleaders of mass murder, maiming, torture and wanton destruction.
It is an unarguable fact that PIRA was formed after a split from the IRA. The IRA of the 1960s, under Cathal Goulding, was moving in the direction of being a non violent, socialist organisation, intent on dropping it's abstentionist policy in Dublin, accepting the legitimacy...
... and authority of the Irish government. The well documented inability of the IRA in Northern Ireland to engage in large scale violence in the late 60s, due to a shortage of weapons, was a direct result of the IRA's leadership pulling back from violence and restricting access..
... to weapons. The IRA unded Goulding still desired a united Ireland, but saw politics rather than violence as the way to achieve it. Previous IRA campaigns of violence had failed.
When PIRA apologists today, say that PIRA had no alternative to using violence, this is...
When PIRA apologists today, say that PIRA had no alternative to using violence, this is...
... either a blatant lie, or ignorance of historical facts. Goulding's political strategy was an alternative. The SDLP, formed in 1970, was an alternative route and the SDLP of the 70s, was more popular than Sinn Fein. These were non-violent alternatives that retained an...
... aspiration for a united Ireland.
The militants who split from Goulding's IRA, did so in order to indulge their desire for violence, or "physical force Republicanism". The desire for a united Ireland was not unique to PIRA. Their raison d'etre, their reason for existence....
The militants who split from Goulding's IRA, did so in order to indulge their desire for violence, or "physical force Republicanism". The desire for a united Ireland was not unique to PIRA. Their raison d'etre, their reason for existence....
... was violence. The founding members of PIRA saw violence as being central to their strategy for a united Ireland. In the early days of their existence, they simply lacked the manpower and resources to fully implement their strategy. This was to change by the early 1970s...
... with PIRA's development of the car bomb and acquisition of more weapons, including armalite rifles from the US. This enabled an escalation of violence that included the deliberate targeting of civilians, such as bomb attacks in early 1972 at the Abercorn Resturant and...
... the Donegal Street bomb outside the Newsletter building, when PIRA purposely used fake warnings to shepherd civilians towards a car bomb. These were terrorists, employing violence to terrorise, shock and coerce. Bloody Friday was to follow a few months later.
We now have...
We now have...
... PIRA apologists disseminating propaganda and rewriting the blood soaked, morally bankrupt history of a terrorist group, formed specifically to indulge in violence. In their reimagined version of the past, there is a Disneyfication of PIRA terrorism. There is lie upon lie...
... to excuse and rationalise the actions of what I can only describe as a psychotic organisation, that lacked empathy for other human beings, lied and manipulated, was self-obsessed and self-serving, and had a casual indifference to the suffering it caused to others.
