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[gothwalk]

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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[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

I must admit one of the things that really annoys me about Sinn Fein (and the IRA) is the way in which they have usurped our nationalistic pride. I don't mean nasty nationalism but national pride stuff. You feel guilty about celebrating the fact that we are a nation for fear of being branded with their NASTY tar brush! We really can't have a Ireland Day because they would make it into a travesty and use it for their own political rantings.

BTW the poster with the gun to the guy's head is done by the "No to Nice" group headed up by that Justin Barrett guy who is still trying to claim innocence about that neo-Nazi rally he was at recently.