Hello? Howya.....
It is Democratic when they can't vote for who would win?
Sinn Fein are a terrorist organisation and therefore should not be a legal party - and screw the bastards who vote for them.
Has not Gerry Adams renounced terrorism?
No. He pretended to.
You might want to consider a reiteration.
Why?
Unless of course you are of the mindset that leopards do not change their spots.
I don't believe democracies like the UK or Eire should negotiate with terrorists.
Personally, I think that England created Sinn Fein, and Gerry Adams, and a whole lot of their own other problems.
Yeah, and Israel created the PLO and Arafat... < /sarcasm>
Gosh, the great famine of the late 1840s would never have been referred to as a famine if only the British had deemed it reasonable to actually share some food with the poor Irish serfs in their own land. Fortunately, England also created great British statesmen such as Parnell, and a few others.
A crop failure 160 years ago has no bearing whatsoever on the atrocities carried out by the IRA.
And God helped make the United States of America too, in order to put the British in their place every now and then.
By funding NORAID???
I don't know where to begin with your post.
This might be a good start.
"A crop failure 160 years ago has no bearing whatsoever on the atrocities carried out by the IRA."
That is simply unworthy of comment, and so because I am unworthy, I mention it.
I agree that terrorists should not be negotiated with ever, at all ever, unless they of course are holding my family as hostages.
Many modern day National Movements have emulated certain tactics that The American Colonists first utilized against the British forces during the American war for independence, and freedom from unrepresentation and unfair taxation and all of that rot.
The Zionists who grew in number in Palestine (after purchasing property with actual money) used certain methods that were arguably "terror tactics" against British occupiers, and Arab adversaries.
The so called Palestinians took their terrorism to new heights when they "invented" the new tactic of waging guerilla warfare against unarmed, unwarned, and non prepared CIVILIANS, including little children, deliberately and with malice.
The common denominator seems to me to be the British imperialist paradigm. Those Englishmen always seemed to be around when these national movements were coming into prominence.
One distinguishing aspect concerning the three groups who were all at times opposed to the British occupiers, was that the Zionists never waged their campaign against civilians. My grandfather and his comrades in the bloody mess back in 1920 Ireland, that brought him to America cannot claim anything remotely akin. Neither can those Islamic nutjobs who are revered regularly by assholes in the modern day free press.
Things change.
Gerry Adams, who is the leader of Sinn Fein may be the worst terrorist that your ilk will ever deal with.
The pen being mightier than the sword and all of that.
You seem to be unwilling to wage war with words and pen against adversaries who would engage in politics and diplomacy once it actually means something.
Oh, and the failure of one crop did not mean that people should starve to death. The mass exodus of the Irish occurred only because the Irish were less than second class citizens in their own country. A form of modern day terrorism, that the British can call their own.