He writes:
HOW DID THE IRA think it could get away with it? How did it think it could plan a £26 million bank heist while negotiating a place for its representatives in Government? How did it think it could get away with the murder of Robert McCartney for so long? Why did it think it could restore confidence in its commitment to peace by promising to shoot the men in its ranks who carried out that killing? How could it imagine it could break the law with impunity and still remain a full player in the political process?
For one simple reason.
Because it has, literally, been getting away with murder for years. The IRA has been indulged, excused and accommodated so often since the signing of the Belfast Agreement that it had no reason to believe that it would ever face the proper consequences of its immoral actions.
The IRA sent operatives to Colombia to train narco-terrorists in return for drugs money and faced no sanction from the British Government. The IRA organised an illegal gun running operation from Florida but paid no political price for its involvement. Indeed, the FBI was explicitly told during its inquiry not to state that the operation had in anyway been sanctioned by the IRA leadership.Throughout the past 11 years the IRA has been running extortion rackets and smuggling rings, it has robbed cigarette warehouses and laundered cash through a chain of front businesses, it has driven innocents into exile and killed dozens of individuals who have crossed its path. And the price exacted by the Blair Government for this massive, lethal, organised criminality? Nada. Nothing. Zilch. Zero.
And he's just getting started. Read the whole thing here.
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