Clinton' s America / Gerryatrics
McArdle, Thomas
Gerryatrics by Thomas McArdle ill Clinton has personally handed B one of the most unsavory terrorist groups in the world, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a propaganda victory they have...
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...There are great fears in the South that a reintegrated North would be only the beginning, that the IRA would extend its campaign into the South to unseat its most reviled enemy: the squishy Dublin government that signed the Devil's pact with Britain to partition Ireland in 1921...
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...Clinton's visa for Adams can undoubtedlybe traced directly to his influence...
...Adams's speech was filled with powerful soundbite bombs for the C-Span audience, telling how "Sinn Fein has also initiated a series of peace forums in Ireland...
...Provisional Sinn Fein (Irish for "We Ourselves") came fully under guerrilla control only when Adams was elected its president in 1983, wresting leadership from a faction of Southerners...
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...Still, An Phoblacht, the IRA's ubiquitous propaganda newspaper, insisted that "ultimately Britain is to blame...
...In November 1987, eleven Protestants were killed and sixty-three people injured during a wreath-laying for the dead of the two World Wars by 50 The American Spectator March 1994 an explosion in a Catholic social club in Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh...
...Yet it helps explain why Sinn Fein gets so little electoral support north and especially south of the border...
...These questions have already been answered fully...
...How can he say he is supporting policies of freedom, justice and peace when he supports the murder of innocent women and children...
...It was "aimed at catching Crown forces personnel on patrol in connection with the Remembrance Day service but not during it," according to IRA headquarters, but "blew up without being triggered by our radio signal...
...That the IRA's goal is not merely to run the Brits out but also to build a united socialist Irish Republic is rarely noted by U.S...
...Gerryatrics by Thomas McArdle ill Clinton has personally handed B one of the most unsavory terrorist groups in the world, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a propaganda victory they have wanted for decades...
...It is no secret—except, it seems, to American journalists—that Belfast-born Gerry Adams joined the IRA as a teenager a quarter-century ago, and led its notorious Belfast Brigade until a 1973-77 imprisonment...
...A dministration sources have admitted that President Clinton granted Adams a visa—reversing decades of policy of presidents of both parties, the State Department, the Foreign Service and the CIA—in order to deliver a plum to Democratic lawmakers, especially Senate Finance Chairman Pat Moynihan and Senate Labor and Human Resources Chairman Ted Kennedy, whose support will be vital for passage of Clinton's health care and welfare plans...
...It was his talks with Adams that sparked this most recent Dublin-Westminster peace initiative, and Derryman Hume's reputation is on the line...
...It would be ironic if Clinton's claim of granting the visa "to push this [peace] process forward" resulted in greater legitimacy in Ireland for the IRA—goading hard-liners to scuttle the peace process, cutting the legs out from under Hume's moderate nationalists, and ultimately strengthening loyalist terrorists, too...
...Moreover, both major Irish-American newspapers, the Irish Echo and the Irish Voice exalted the two senators as wise and courageous statesmen...
...Nationalist leader John Hume played an even larger role in the visit...
...Welcome to our homes, as you have welcomed me into your home," gushed a woman representing a group called Voice of the Innocent...
...During the Waldorf conference Hume delivered his own propaganda, telling Americans that if the 44 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry would only give five dollars a week, "the Irish economy would go through the roof...
...Hume befriended Kennedy twenty years ago and is the Irish political figure taken most seriously by Moynihan and many other Irish-American Democrats...
...But they do reap advantages from the pandering: Irish Northern Aid's Martin Galvin and the Irish National Caucus' Fr...
...Did you tell the Yanks about the torture chambers...
...Sean McManus both spoke kindly of the two senators in the course of Adams's visit...
...One was Alan McBride, a Protestant whose 29year-old wife and father-in-law were killed in last October's IRA bombing of a Shankill Road fish shop...
...Healy yelled...
...This IRA—supplied during the Cold War by the Soviet Union'sproxies, and by Libya and other terrorist states—remains an unequivocally Marxist-Leninist organization...
...The IRA's operations are impossible to maintain over the long haul without civilian atrocities...
...Gerry Adams, the president of Provisional Sinn Fein, the IRA's political party, was allowed into America for forty-eight hours, supposedly so he could speak at an important conference to help the peace process in Northern Ireland, as the White House describes it...
...They both take a soft pro–United Ireland stance, the safe thing to do in Boston or New York if you don't want to get booed marching in the St...
...W hen Adams's flight back from the United States landed at Dublin Airport at 6 a.m...
...Adams became the pied piper for scores of former IRA men becoming active in the party, turning Sinn Fein's oft-stated mission into the seizure of power "with a ballot paper in one.hand and an Armalite in the other...
...Another, was Maurice Healy, a 58year-old Northern Catholic man kidnapped, stripped, tortured, and sexually abused for fourteen hours by the IRA, then judged "not guilty" of being an informer by a kangaroo court, but still ordered on threat of death not ever to roam north of Dublin...
...McBride angrily asked...
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...n New York, however, Adams was / received as a statesman...
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...In fact, the Waldorf Astoria "conference," put on by the New York-based National Committee on American Foreign Policy, was just another chance for Northern Ireland politicians to proselytize...
...And for two ignoble reasons: to get back at the British Conservative Party for being too well-disposed towards Republican presidents, and as a favor to two powerful Irish-American senators...
...Of all the speakers here, you spoke the most concretely," he was told by one member of the NCAFP audience...
...Irish-American pols like Moynihan and Kennedy, both of whom pressured Clinton to let Adams in, are not pro-IRA, unlike, say, Long Island Republican Congressman Peter King and Bronx Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel...
...Hume, who sat with Adams at the New York conference, is the head of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, the non-IRA-supporting party that gets the votes of most Catholics in Northern Ireland...
...Petty crimes, like teenage joyriding, are punished by "kneecapping," a low-caliber shot through the back of each knee, and for the more stubborn offenders the ankles and elbows as well, a "six-pack...
...The audience was stacked with IRA sympathizers...
...There have been times, however, when Nationalist majorities on both sides of the border have been more prone to extremism—like the last time an IRA member's face was plastered on the front pages of American newspapers, during the IRA hunger strikes of 1981...
...Today's IRA are not Yeats's gunmen, the Irish Republican Brotherhood of Easter 1916...
...What a contrast to the reality in ghettos like those of West Belfast, where the IRA is the Mafia, financed by extorting weekly levies from bars, nightclubs, taxicab companies, and the construction trade, and by engaging in tax fraud...
...A "5050" is a bullet in the spine, with the victim's chances of survival about even...
...batten was blown up on his yacht in Sligo, along with Mountbatten's grandson, his daughter's elderly mother-in-law and the 15-year-old Irish boy at the ship's helm...
...Hume's political judgment in getting Adams into America could turn out to be as foolish as his economics...
...by the time the event ended and the room was cleared for the press, Adams had not been asked a single hostile question...
...Bobby Sands was elected Member of the British Parliament for Fermanagh–South Tyrone while he starved to death in Long Kesh prison, and another hunger striker was elected to the Republic's Dail...
...one cold morning last month, twenty members of the Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT), an IRA victims' group, were waiting for him...
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...Sinn Fein at present gets less than 2 percent of the support of voters in the Irish Republic, and a minority of Catholics in the North...
...In 1979 he became head of the IRA's Army Council, the seat of power for the entire organization...
...They thus are viewed with some distrust by the hard-core Brits Out movement in their states...
...That was the year Lord MountThomas McArdle is a reporter for Investor's Business Daily and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin...
...During the rest of his stay, Adams skirted questions about whether he had been personally involved in any killing, and denied supporting the more grisly IRA murders of women and children...
Vol. 27 • March 1994 • No. 3
