Hmm. You pretty much said all I wanted to in reply to that.
The IRA are no more heros than the UDA, UVF, the Triads, the Mafia, the Taliban or any other of sadly innumerable gangs of power-hungry thugs who con people into thinking they're doing it for YOU.
It's not 'protection' (well, not til they make you start paying for it :p) it's control.
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Date: 2005-03-04 03:49 am (UTC)The IRA are no more heros than the UDA, UVF, the Triads, the Mafia, the Taliban or any other of sadly innumerable gangs of power-hungry thugs who con people into thinking they're doing it for YOU.
It's not 'protection' (well, not til they make you start paying for it :p) it's control.