Your point, New York Slimes?
Posted on 03/09/2011 8:06:03 AM PST by Qbert
WASHINGTON — For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.
“We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry,” Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”
As Mr. King, a Republican, rose as a Long Island politician in the 1980s, benefiting from strong Irish-American support, the I.R.A. was carrying out a bloody campaign of bombing and sniping, targeting the British Army, Protestant paramilitaries and sometimes pubs and other civilian gathering spots. His statements, along with his close ties to key figures in the military and political wings of the I.R.A., drew the attention of British and American authorities.
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Your point, New York Slimes?
Who actually bombed places and killed people.
In his own country.
The USA.
imagine that.
Did the NYT ever mention Kennedy Support for the IRA?
nah....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2329715/posts
“Did the NYT ever mention Kennedy Support for the IRA?”
Shocker.
New York Times hid the story on page 10.
All the news fit to print?
To bad they can't print money because they won't be in business much longer.
A lot of very misguided Americans brought into the IRA’s fundraising campaign. How they could not know the money raised went to commit acts of terror is beyond me. King would do well to do some major groveling over his support of the IRA.
However his past support of them does not invalidate his call against today’s Muslim terrorists.
Whenever a normal person becomes a threat to the left’s entrenched power, they turn on the slime machine.
A lot of folks supported the I.R.A., until their leadership’s leftist political leanings became apparent. Then the conservatives withdrew support, and the commies doubled it. Especially those like Ted Kennedy (D-Hell).
Scott Shane, New York Times
When they were killing members of an occupying foreign army, they were freedom fighters. When they started targeting civilians, they became murderers. How hard would the NYT (for example) investigate and report on fellow Marxists?
Scott Shane’s Version
The New York Times assigned its first Bill Ayers profile since September 11, 2001 to veteran political reporter Scott Shane, and the article published October 3, 2008 provides no new information about the mysterious relationship between Bill Ayers and his colleague of at least over a dozen years Barack Obama. In Scott Shane’s version, the two met by chance in Chicago in 1995 in a conversation about education, served briefly together on two Chicago foundation boards, lived in the same neighborhood, and have fallen out of meaningful conversation since 2002.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/batchelor-questions-about-ayers-dohrn-obama/
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NYT’s intelligence reporter Scott Shane, fretting that public opposition voiced to the speedy approval and building of a giant Islamic cultural center topped by a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero would somehow make radical Muslim extremists, who despise the very existence of America, hate the U.S. even more: “Anti-Islam Protest in U.S. Bolsters Extremists, Experts Say”
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The New York Times’ Scott Shane has a history of slanted reporting on intelligence (most notoriously his credulous acceptance of everything said by anti-war huckster Joe Wilson). But a sentence in his Thursday “news analysis,” “The C.I.A. and the Tapes: Sensing Support Shifting Away From Its Methods,” was either clumsily written or just plain bizarre.
Shane began by likening the CIA to a group of grifters afraid their luck may finally be running out.
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It was waterboard Wednesday in the New York Times, as Philip Shenon and Scott Shane filed separate articles on the issue of waterboarding and “torture” in general.
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Data Mining: Bad When It Fights Terror, Good When It Boosts NYT’s Bottom Line
Sunday’s New York Times led with Scott Shane and David Johnston’s “Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying,” on what the intelligence reporters characterized as a fierce Justice Department debate over the use of “data mining” in the war on terror.
WIKI LEAKS in cahoots with NYTs anyone?
NY Times Twists Terrorist Surveillance Into ‘Domestic Eavesdropping’
The NYT is guilty of various crimes, and everyone should be reminded of that whenever the slimes is mentioned.
Sally Taylor, author of Stalin’s Apologist: Walter Duranty, The New York Times Man in Moscow (Oxford University Press 1990) fully documented how Duranty covered up the truth and distorted matters to ingratiate himself to Stalin and his murderous henchmen. Malcolm Muggeridge himself described Duranty as the “Greatest liar of any journalist I have ever met.” Famed American commentator Joseph Alsop would later say of Duranty that “lying was his stock in trade.”
http://www.orwelltoday.com/stalinliar.shtml
This article probably has the intention of being a hit piece, but unfortunatley for us it is the most effective type of hit piece, it is true. Anyone with a little knowledge of Peter King knew this fact about him would surface. For the last decade, I have been very uneasy having someone from our side being a public spokesmen against terrorism who had been a supporter of terrorists himself. Anbody with a little knowledge of the Troubles in Northern Ireland knew that the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) was a leftist terrorist organization from its break from the Official IRA over tactics in 1970. Peter King remained a strong supporter of the PIRA right into the 1990’s. Peter King continued to fund raise and support the PIRA even knowing that the PIRA was being armed by Libya.
Let us stop acting like Democrats who support anyone no matter what they do just because they have Democrat next to their name. The truth is Peter King should have never been allowed anywhere near the position he is in. Anybody with half a brain would have said we cannot have PIRA supporters as our spokesmen on Homeland Security. Who next, Carlos the Jackal. Peter King is our Bill Ayers. We can be like Democrats and look the other way, or have a pair a deal with this honestly.
I think many families of dead British soldiers and innocent bystanders would disagree with your take on this.
Northern Ireland was not an independent sovereign state so calling the British army and occupying foreign army is incorrect. Also the IRA always targeted civilians. Both on their own soil and on English soil.
Pete King defended himself by mentioning the Irgun. A little known fact about this group, they collaborated with Naxi Germany during the tail end of WW2. They began a campaign of assasanation against the British beginning in 1944. As British soldiers were liberating the concentration camps in Germany in 1945, the Irgun were murdering their peoples own liberators.
Thats not true, the Harrods bombing killed an American
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