Someone ask me what I thought about Sinn Fein being elected as part of the government of the Republic of Ireland. And I flipped off an answer
If the people vote Sinn Fein into government, that is their will. If Sinn Fein are voted in on a platform that they will not fulfill. Then they are no different than any other politician that they replaced, untrustworthy, and they too, should, and will be replaced.
And then I hear that many people in Ireland fear terrible things will happen if Sinn Fein, “the Murdering IRA Thugs”, win more seats in the government.
And sure, I know that there are concerns there, but what would you say to George Washington. To the the British, he was a “Murdering rebel Traitor” but he became President of the United States. Some Americans wanted to make him King, but he declined. It seemed to work out fine for them, being a good man that he was.
I’ll quote you something normally attributed to Ben Franklin
Revolution is always illegal in the third person, such as ‘Their’ Revolution
it’s only legal in the first person, as Our revolution
So if Sinn Fein are, in their own minds, Revolutionary Patriots, then what would make them different from George Washington. The fact that they do not hold office yet, or that what they stand for is not what you stand for?
And if that’s the only difference, being that their platform distinguishes them from any other party, it only makes them politicians, like any other. And you wouldn’t be voting for something you don’t believe in as no amount of thuggery will get the average Irishman to change his mind, only kindly persuasion. (or maybe the parish priest)
Do you think maybe, that Hamas may believe they are patriots for their own people too?
It is really only a matter of perspective.
It’s much like a boxer entering a knitting contest, he wins only if he can knit.
How about the fact that Sinn Fein do not consider the murder of a member of the Gardaà wrong.
You find nothing wrong with a party that does not condemn the breaking of the law in the most haines way making the law.
Are being connected to an organisation that still does not recognise the state and sees itself as the only army of the state
Sorry, I didn’t know that.
But knowing that now, didn’t matter, as I was never going to vote for any of them anyway and for many other lesser reasons that just that.
I wouldn’t trust that bunch at far as I could toss them. But unless the government outlaws them they can still run for office. And if people vote for them it’s still legal.
People can still be free to make their own choices. That’s the tough part about democracy, there is always someone with an opposing view point. Willing to shout their lungs out expressing it, just as much as you would opposing it.
Did anyone think freedom is easy?
Sinn Fein are the only party that stood up to the brits and for the working class.
PS The Gardai are corrupt as sin. Few of my mates from Donegal and Monanagh tell me many a story about them. One being that a certain member of this force owns an expensive house paid for by drug money.
Also the fact that they handed over Irish patriots like Dominic McGlinchey over to the brits shows what kind of people these are. Scum