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I was ranting on Cut earlier about Sinn Fein, and olethros was urging me to post it here. I've thought about it some since, and it comes down to this: Sinn Fein are a front for a terrorist organisation. Why does anyone support them? By supporting SF, you make a clear and definite statement that the IRA are ok in your book.

It can't be that you support their other policies, just not that one, cos frankly, that's rubbish. Party politics are about blocks of opinion. If you want to support their other policies, and not the IRA, then start a political party with their other core values (Seperatism, religious bias, racism and stupidity, as far as I can see).

I know that there are SF supporters who read this - tell me how otherwise intelligent people can be so short-sighted as to support the IRA?

This was kicked off by the SF posters for a no vote in the upcoming referendum. Since then, I've seen a Green Party poster for a no vote, and my annoyance at that knows no bounds. It's almost as annoying as the picture of a guy with a gun to his head, caption "Don't Be Bullied" - that was the one that decided me on voting yes, because no way was I going to even remotely associated withj whoever was mind-bogglingly stupid enough to put up that poster (There's no name on it, btw - talk about bullying).

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Oh, and while I'm at it, Bush's statement on the Bali carbomb: "We must together challenge and defeat the idea that the wanton killing of innocents advances any cause or supports any aspirations. And, we must call this despicable act by its rightful name: murder"

And who is it wants to bomb Iraq, again, no matter what anyone else says, eh? Wanker.