why do yanks support the ira but are on a war fighting against terrorism!!!do you think they are hypocrits??they expect are help but support the ira..
2006-10-27 01:47:45 · 18 answers · asked by mike o 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
An excellent question. When I lived in Belfast (after 9-11), a New York congresswoman visited and called the IRA freedom fighters - it was this sort of thinking which won people's sympathy. The IRA loved to compare themselves to Nelson Mandela, but South African blacks could not vote and the Northern Irish nationalists could - after 1973 gerrymandering was swept away and they only lost elections because they were in the minority, not because the system was still rigged.
The IRA is basically an old comrades' association now and Americans' foolish support for them isn't really a current issue. But now that America knows what it's like to be a victim of terrorism, maybe Hartford, Conn. will excise the name of IRA gun-runner Bobby Sands from their disgraceful public park.
2006-10-27 05:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thankfully the situation in Ireland seems to be sorting itself out. It is an absolutely fantastic place. I have spent several memorable holidays there. It makes me wonder, now that the Patriot Act is in force, and it is illegal in the USA to support any terrorist organisation, whether the support for the IRA has dwindled to such an extent that they decided the only alternative was "diplomacy". Whatever the reason, the result is a more peaceful era. In the past however the IRA has raised vast sums in America to fight it"s terrorist war against the United Kingdom, and it did seem hypocritical of the Americans to support them whilst condemning terrorism elsewhere.
2006-10-27 13:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by researcher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in the US supported the IRA because they saw their fight as a legitimate one. Not too many years ago the Brits were kicked out of the US (by terrorists).
People have a right to fight an occupying force. The struggle for Irish Freedom has now reached a stage where politics has taken centre stage.
People seem to forget. Catholics were treated as second class citizens in their own country. Unionists talk about democracy and the rule of law. All right and proper! But since the partition of Ireland and the creation of a sectarian rule statlet (one party rule) democracy did not exist.
So when the catholic (and many protestants) came together to form the Civil Rights Movement they were beat into the ground. What would you have done? Would you allow yourself to be treated as a second class citizen and when you dared ask for equality are beaten for daring to ask to be treated the same!
The IRA came into being as a result of the situation. Catholic areas were attacked by loyalist mobs backed up by the RUC and B Specials. There was no IRA then. So because the IRA fought against the Brits (the Status Quo) who occupy the Six Counties they are therefore preceived as terrorists because they are trying to remove the Status Quo, which to the Irish is illegitimate.
Not only did they have to fight the Brits, but also the loyalist death squads backed and armed by the same Brits. So don't you consider the loyalists as terrorists. Or do you see them as defending democracy? Then again, what democracy?
2006-10-27 11:37:32 · answer #3 · answered by Firbolg 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yanks didn't support the IRA, Irish imigrants did. The American polpulus has always supported the Brits. The US government was powerless to stop the cash flow to the IRA until the Patriot Act was signed.
2006-10-27 09:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who in America supports the IRA, besides a few Irish
2006-10-27 08:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by Zen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The IRA used to receive popular support from Irish-Americans, including several prominent corporations.
They have, however, disarmed. The war is long over guys, Diplomacy won
2006-10-27 12:02:36 · answer #6 · answered by thomas p 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are confusing Irish ex pats who have an inborn hatred for the uk for whatever reason some justified ornot ,support of the ira has never been us government policy since the days of joe kennedy and he was of irish descent and only an ambassador and you know how right he was he wanted hitler to win in europe,as todays yanks would say another useless democrat.
2006-10-27 09:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by joseph m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one should ever promote terrorism end of!
I am Catholic and I am the first to condemn the grief and misery the IRA have caused!!
2006-10-27 08:52:36 · answer #8 · answered by Scots lass 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol the USA funded most of the so called bad guys look it up they sold guns and trained AL QAUIDA for fuk sake thats fact its in there interests to create terror so they can scare the people into giving away there rights and libertys and then carry out wars example the patriots act unconstitutional this was brought in after 9/11 to be used against so called terrorists yet it is being used against the people,wake up brother,look up the new world order watch this film
:http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661&q=martial+law
2006-10-27 11:38:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the i.r.a are cowards and the americans that support them are worse than cowards there just thick as shite after 9/11 maybe the'll get to feel what real terror is it could not have come too soon and watch out theres more coming they have upset the mad element in society.
2006-10-27 09:08:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋