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As I said above, I don't think most people who root for the IRA today have any idea what the IRA today is. They don't know that the IRA was training FARC to make them more deadly in Colombia with other terrorists who randomly kill and murder noncombatants. They probably don't know about the IRA's days when it was training with Libyans. They don't know about its drug dealing, its extortion from Catholics in Northern Ireland, its robbing from Catholics in Northern Ireland, or its extra-judicial punishment meted out with the whims and caprice we'd expect from a gangster organization. Its punishments illustrate its cruel nature. In one, they have the victim hold his palms together as if in prayer and then shoot him through both hands. They also will shoot a fellow Catholic they're punishing in the knees and elbows so that all four joints are maimed for life. No government I know of sanctions such cruel and unusual punishment today. Frankly, the IRA today is just a bunch of thugs with a few pretty boy front men. That's why the south of Ireland is fed up with them. They have nothing to offer anymore. They're not the men of the ballads.