Support for the IRA
King began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), many of whom he counted as friends.
King became involved with NORAID, an organization that the British, Irish and U.S. governments had accused of financing IRA activities and providing them with weapons. Regarding the 30 years of violence during which the IRA killed over 1,700 people, mainly combatants, including Lord Mountbatten, Lord Kaberry, Sir Anthony Berry MP and over 500 civilians, King said, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it."
He's a real piece of work!
He’s the most white trash politician around.
1.Posing with thugs. check.
2. Posing in Boxing Gloves. check
3. Ethnic heritage type BS justifying IRA. check.
4. Appeals to segment of Long Island White Trash check.