First off I am a member of the Provisional IRA. Yes we are considered a terrorist group in the UK, but our leaders have agreed to disarm and we now seek a United Irish State, with no more Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
This will be hard to explain without anger but I will do my best. When I was a boy I remember my parents telling me stories about bloody sunday. I was only 2 when it happened so I do not remember the incident itself, but I remember years after, my father not being the same. My great uncle Bernard McGuigan was shot and killed by British Paratroopers. My father says he was unarmed and was shot in the head while trying to help another wounded protester.
I also remember hearing in the papers that the BBC banned the Paul Mcartney song "Give Ireland back to the Irish".
I remember hearing how the Prime Minister John Major refused to even make a public Inquiry.
I remember seeing a bogside mural of all the victims of Bloody Sunday everytime I was in Derry.
I remember seeing Bernadette Devlin punch Reginal Mauldling because he said " The British Army fired in Self Defence"
I remember seeing pictures of the dead teenagers and my Great Uncle in the papers.
In all my years in the IRA, I have not once done something I regret. We had a goal, a free Ireland. One without British Taxes and Order.
Now with all this, I still see Journalists, British Journalists saying things like "American troops are murdering innocent Iraqi Civilians" and "Americans are stealing Oil and Invading Iraq". How can these scumbags say such things? America has had one embarrasing situation, 2 if you count Vietnam. Iraq is full of Terrorists, Terrorists who killed Innocent Civilians before their land was ocupied. Iraq did not harbor terrorists because America was Taxing and Opressing them!
Now look at Britian. They get mad because we fight to drive them out of Ireland? Ireland is not for the Irish. The IRA would not even exist if it wasnt for hundreds of years of oppression and torture. They bribe our Poloticians even to this day.
Bloody Sunday happened because we were not allowed to Protest. In America in the 1970's, anyone for anything was allowed to Peacefully march and Protest. The British Government did not want us Irishmen protesting British rule, so their troops were told to expect a gunfight and they started one, only the Irish did not shoot back. Even the Coroner who was a former troop in the British Military said the inncodent was nothing less than "Murder".
I do express that my views may seem radical to an outsider, but I have grown up fearing, and loathing the British Governmet. It is wrong of me to assume the same views of the British Civilians.
But can one Brit explain to me why other Brits feel it is moral to critisize George Bush for his actions in a 3rd World Terrorist country like Iraq, when Their government did worse things to a civilized god fearing country such are Ireland?
