The Zack Posted March 11, 2011 Peter King, IRA supporter and enthusiastic counter-terrorism advocate By Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 5, 2011 In 1985, the Irish government boycotted the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, the biggest celebration in the Irish American calendar. The cause of its umbrage was Peter T. King, that year's grand marshal and someone the Irish government said was an "avowed" supporter of a terrorist organization, the Irish Republican Army. King, then a local politician on Long Island, was one of the most zealous American defenders of the militant IRA and its campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland. He argued that IRA violence was an inevitable response to British repression and that the organization had to be understood in the context of a centuries-long struggle for independence. "The British government is a murder machine," King said. He described the IRA, which mastered the car bomb as an instrument of urban terror, as a "legitimate force." And he compared Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, to George Washington. Click here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted March 11, 2011 Watch John Stewart's The Daily Show... LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted March 11, 2011 I will post the link when they upload to their site, I just watched the new episode, Peter got discovered LOL. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
