Oh yeah, Ireland is free from terrorism...you can't even stop internal terrorism...sounds like a dreamy place to live!Nick wrote:Personally I would prefer to be insignificant than a fucking gaping blistering chasm of gormless stupidity (you?)
Btw, someone "giving a damn" about your governments shitheaded murder excursions is nothing to be proud of.
As for the United States...there's some bad and a lot of good...either way we matter.
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Police must act now to stop country being robbed blind
02 June 2005
Recent events have proved yet again that the godfathers of terrorism are indeed behind the spate of major robberies and kidnappings.
While the ordinary citizens of Ireland go about their daily business, elements of the republican movement are still planning and carrying out acts of serious crime on both sides of the border.
How long is it going to be, before both governments come clean and state publicly, that the individuals planning and conducting such robberies are, or have been, mainstream members of the Provisional IRA.
Is it not strange that these attacks have been increasing in frequency throughout Ireland, since the signing of the Belfast Agreement and the restrictions placed on republican fund-raising within the United States. Such an organisation still needs funds to operate.
Although any loss of life is regrettable, the deaths in Lusk Village, have been predicted by some parties for some time.
Despite calls by Amnesty International and other parties for an inquiry, we should not forget that it was the robbers who planned and conducted the Lusk raid, with the total disregard for the human rights of their intended victims.
The fact that they had in their possession a loaded semi-automatic firearm, also showed that they were prepared to use lethal force in order to achieve their objectives. Thankfully the member of the emergency response unit who fired the fatal shots was prepared to preserve the right to life of the Post Office employees, before that of his own.
Such actions should be publicly recognised by the State and those parties calling for an inquiry into the shooting should be told in no uncertain terms to mind their own business.
Any person who plans and conducts an act of serious crime, while in possession of a weapon of any description, should be aware that the forces of law and order reserve the right to use lethal force, in order to protect the lives of others.
Both governments have claimed that the Provisionals have been behind the Northern Bank raid, the Makro robbery and other major thefts.
While the PSNI and other agencies sit down to discuss what steps they are going to take to target the criminals involved, the culprits will be off to northern Spain once again to plan another raid, safe in the knowledge that they can talk freely and spend their cut of their ill-gotten gains.
Peace sure is paying the Provos well. But how long can we all sit back and let it happen? Perhaps Hugh Orde should follow the example the Gardaí have shown us and take them on once and for all to stop the country being robbed blind.
