The I.R.A: Activists or Terrorists?

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I do not support the I.R.A, as I do not support Marxist or terrorists. The political wing of the I.R.A (Sinn Fein) is communists hiding under a nationalist stance. Gerry Adams is the man who heads the Sinn Fein; the man who replaced Martin McGuinness as the leader of the Sinn Fein. The actual I.R.A has splintered due to the communist tyranny the Sinn Fein has invoked on them. There’s the real I.R.A who are nationalists and wanted the British out. The will not talk to the British, as they feel they are foreign invaders. Then there's the Provo I.R.A and there nothing more then Marxist terrorist. There whole strategy is based on very fashionable Marxist politics. The current Provo I.R.A slogan “I ran away” plainly states,” It doesn’t matter if we are Marxist, just blindly follow us“. Now the I.R.A had a legit fight, but once there political wing got corrupted with the red disease, everything went down hill. They started going after protestant churches, little children and other innocent people. That's not tolerable, it’s one thing to go after military targets and other government institutes, but once you start going after innocent civilians, that's crossing the line between activist and terrorist thug. The U.D.A (Ulster Defense Association) is no better, as there more concerned with there drug trafficking, then defending Ulster from these Marxist Terrorist. Now I want a united Ireland, it sickens to me to hear bout these so called nationalists killing there own brothers over some church divisions. A united Ireland is what I want to see, I want to see them unite and rid Ireland of there true enemy, the Marxist who have for the last 40 years been playing with there lives.

In the 1920’s, the British wanted to get out of northern Ireland as it was during World war 1. Britain did not have one solid voice. So they pulled out. There was a protestant majority that felt they where British, and wanted to stay British. So Britain decided to partition Ireland. The Brits would take control of the northern part of Ireland, and call it Northern Ireland. They would leave the rest of the island for the Irish. Neither side was happy about this outcome. The majority of the Irish bitterly accepted this. They felt Northern Ireland would collapse under it‘s own weight. A group of brave Irish nationalist did not stand for this, and fought tooth and nail to rise against the British.

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