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.
I’ll believe the facts, and the facts support absolutely nothing of what you claim. Except that I never said that the people who were killed were not innocent; in fact, I never said a word about the people who were killed, and I will hold fast to the matter of their having been used as human shields because that is what the facts point toward.
But by all means, keep quoting Wikipedia with its leftist slant (not that your new quote disavows leftism, mind you, but reinforces it). Madge Davison, assistant organizer for the NICRA (yes, as in community organizer), was a member of the Communist Youth League and the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and later part of the Executive of the Communist Party of Ireland. Kinda makes the NICRA sound a lot like the ACLU, does it not?
I have never criticized the IRA (even in cases where it is probably merited); until people are in their shoes they should reserve judgment.
Brits out!