Who is slurring innocent dead? Do you know what PLO/Hamas tactic I was referring to the IRA using?? Using innocents as human shields. (And that is aside from the links of the NICRA to the “Republican” movement, the IRA and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland and other leftist movements such as the Campaign for Social Justice.) One struggle.
Like it or not, the majority of people in Northern Ireland wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom. Now with the European Union owning all of the British Isles, that point is utterly moot since both the UK and the Irish Republic are both reunited under Brussels’ aegis (and nobody in the Republic likes to admit that, although some face the truth), but the European elites will keep this sectarian strife going according to the principle of divide-and-conquer. The Red Hand of Ulster has gone pale.
Believe what you like. The IRA were not using these marchers as human shields, because it was not an IRA march, even clandestinely, as your own link points out. The people that were killed were innocent, and using them to support your argument against PLO/Hamas tactics is twisted and offensive. You are slurring innocent dead. If you like persisting in error, by all means continue.
Here were the main goals of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Association:
- “one man, one vote” which meant extension of the local government franchise from ratepayers to all men and women over 21
- an end to gerrymandering which meant unionists were elected even in districts with Catholic majorities
- an end to discrimination in housing
- an end to discrimination in jobs
- the disbandment of the B-Specials, the Ulster Special Constabulary, which many viewed as sectarian.
If you can find anything in there that is un-American, terrorist, anti-Semitic, or violent, please let me know.