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To his credit, when I saw him speak in the late nineties and some in the audience cheered when Jim McCann (his IRA contact) was mentioned, he stopped and spent
by DerDangDerDang 11y ago
To his credit, when I saw him speak in the late nineties and some in the audience cheered when Jim McCann (his IRA contact) was mentioned, he stopped and spent several minutes explaining that Jim McCann was a horrible human being.
- alex_hitchins 11y agoSo horrible that he did business with him.
- junto 11y agoTo be fair, the both sides were historically full of despicable acts. The IRA were criminals first and political terrorists second. The entire IRA operations revolved around profiteering from guns, drugs, prostitution and protection rackets. If you are working in a criminal underground in Ireland there wasn't/isn't much choice but to deal with them.
- asddubs 11y agoI can understand that reaction. In his book, he seems a bit like a fun goof, when you don't factor in that it's describing reality