{"id":3145,"date":"2005-03-10T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/10\/ira-gets-weirder-and-weirder\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T23:25:16","slug":"ira-gets-weirder-and-weirder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/ira-gets-weirder-and-weirder\/","title":{"rendered":"IRA gets weirder and weirder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBill Quick has an amazing story about the stupidity of the IRA:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now, the arrogance and brutality of the IRA’s ‘hard men’ is looking to precipitate the greatest decline in SF’s fortunes in recent years. After an altercation in a Belfast pub on January 30th, 33 year-old Robert McCartney was beaten and stabbed to death. It soon became common knowledge that the murder had been carried out by a group of IRA hoodlums. Of course, there was initial denial, and then a bit of face-saving as Sinn Fein\/IRA claimed to have expelled three of its members. That didn’t satisfy anyone – being booted out of an illegal mafia\/terrorist organisation hardly meets the demands of justice. Now, in what is quite possibly the most bone-headed bit of PR idiocy I have ever seen, the IRA has extended the McCartney family an extraordinary offer: how about we shoot the guys responsible, and we’ll say no more? This has led to a huge furore of condemnation, as well it should, and Sinn Fein\/IRA’s prospects of rejoining the power-sharing arrangement of the Peace Accords look to be postponed indefinitely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The IRA should be opposed for Darwinian reasons, if not for brutality.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Quick has an amazing story about the stupidity of the IRA: Now, the arrogance and brutality of the IRA’s ‘hard men’ is looking to precipitate the greatest decline in SF’s fortunes in recent years. After an altercation in a Belfast pub on January 30th, 33 year-old Robert McCartney was beaten and stabbed to death. … Continue reading “IRA gets weirder and weirder”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-OJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}