The only threat that Provisional guns pose are to people who disagree with their strategy. I don't think that they pose any threat to the British or the Loyalists. The Provisionals use their guns to control their own communities, and as a threat to people who have a different political analysis. (http://www.phoblacht.net/mpinterview.html)
My anarcho-pacifist tendencies have always made me wary "armed struggle" and the romanticized/fetishized image of it in certain segments of the Left. Once you have won your campaign, how do you get the gunmen to give up their guns? At what point do the gunmen turn said guns against their own movement? How thin is the dividing line between a gunman and a thug? Experience, in Ireland and elsewhere, shows it is perilously thin
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Ok, I knew that, and had forgotten. What is the relationship between RSF, the 32 CSM, and the RSM? Or, is there any? Did not Mac Stiofhain also advocate for Éire Nua? Was that not part of the reason he was outflanked, so to speak on the Army Council?
I'd go further to say that Adams has always been an opportunist.
Yes, Gerry, I almost hate to say, has always reminded me of a great many Irish-American Democratic machine politicians in Chicago. Aldermen, ward committee men, etc., who will smile and smile and still be villainous. When Adams came over and met with Bill Clinton, all those many years ago now, I could not help but think that they were so much alike, both slippery as eels.
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I really like what Marian Price has to say here:
The only threat that Provisional guns pose are to people who disagree with their strategy. I don't think that they pose any threat to the British or the Loyalists. The Provisionals use their guns to control their own communities, and as a threat to people who have a different political analysis. (http://www.phoblacht.net/mpinterview.html)
My anarcho-pacifist tendencies have always made me wary "armed struggle" and the romanticized/fetishized image of it in certain segments of the Left. Once you have won your campaign, how do you get the gunmen to give up their guns? At what point do the gunmen turn said guns against their own movement? How thin is the dividing line between a gunman and a thug? Experience, in Ireland and elsewhere, shows it is perilously thin ( ... )
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Ok, I knew that, and had forgotten. What is the relationship between RSF, the 32 CSM, and the RSM? Or, is there any? Did not Mac Stiofhain also advocate for Éire Nua? Was that not part of the reason he was outflanked, so to speak on the Army Council?
I'd go further to say that Adams has always been an opportunist.
Yes, Gerry, I almost hate to say, has always reminded me of a great many Irish-American Democratic machine politicians in Chicago. Aldermen, ward committee men, etc., who will smile and smile and still be villainous. When Adams came over and met with Bill Clinton, all those many years ago now, I could not help but think that they were so much alike, both slippery as eels.
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