{"id":364,"date":"2005-03-09T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/09\/the-ira-in-were-violent-psychopaths-shocker\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T09:44:00","slug":"the-ira-in-were-violent-psychopaths-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-ira-in-were-violent-psychopaths-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRA in &#8220;we&#8217;re violent psychopaths&#8221; shocker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very odd development &#8211; if only for the fact that something everyone has known to be the case for the last 30+ years is finally out in the open, as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/4331819.stm\">the IRA has offered to shoot those of its members responsible for the death of Robert McCartney<\/a> back in January. And &#8211; after decades of requests from the British government to stop supporting terrorists and three and a half years after 9\/11 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/europe\/articles\/2005\/03\/09\/5_ira_critics_get_a_white_house_nod\/\">the White House has finally seen the light<\/a> and decided not to invite any representatives of the IRA&#8217;s political wing to the White House for St Patrick&#8217;s Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/ive-had-comment-which-deserves-full.html\">I am unsurprisingly not a fan of the IRA<\/a>, so doubt I&#8217;m in much of a position to offer decent commentary. Instead, I suggest you check out the superb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/\">Slugger O&#8217;Toole<\/a>, which is keeping a close eye on developments and reactions from all quarters. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/ira_statement_i.php#more\">the full text of the IRA&#8217;s statement<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/archives\/2005\/03\/ira_happy_shoot.php#readcomment\">interesting discussions<\/a>, and lots of reasoned and knowledgable analysis. Well worth a look if you&#8217;re at all interested in this forgotten war on terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very odd development &#8211; if only for the fact that something everyone has known to be the case for the last 30+ years is finally out in the open, as the IRA has offered to shoot those of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/the-ira-in-were-violent-psychopaths-shocker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}