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Originally Posted by rogueteens
and most of the IRA funding came from the US. Oh, it was a funny joke then wasn't it when terrorism only affected other people!
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"American funding of IRA terrorism" has always meant a small minority of American citizens making donations to groups whose usage of those funds for violent acts has never been proven (and is probably unproveable, which is not to say nonexistent). America itself (i.e., the US government) was in no way responsible for these donations.
Because they could never prove the link and because the IRA was only active prior to the War on Terror (and to an extent because of the influence of Irish-Americans), the US government did not violate its constitution by suppressing its citizens' right to donate their money to political causes they supported. It did, however, force the most prominent of these groups (Noraid) to register as an agent of the IRA. It also kept the groups' members/supporters under surveillance, harassed and arrested and prosecuted a couple of them on gun-running charges.
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Originally Posted by borked
And you are shit spot on about the hypocrisy of the American attitude towards terrorism today.
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hypocrisy of "the americans"? way to denigrate 750million people in 1 comment during a crisis.