Aside from that, a brilliant idea.

“The British continue to claim sovereignty over part of our country and while that is the case armed struggle will always be justified.”

the Armed struggle may not necessarily be an, “end in itself,” but one only has to look at the gains made by Sinn Fein / PIRA to see that such a tactic worked in the past.

the very fact that PICADOR indicates, “thus the North remains under British jurisdiction,” is the only reason ‘True / Traditional’ Republicans need…

As Gregory stated on another post, “there would not be many tears shed in the Nationalist community due as a result of the killing of British soldiers.” The point is, he is stating the truth, as although there may never be a return to full scale violence, resentment still exists underneath the surface.

“The British continue to claim sovereignty over part of our country and while that is the case armed struggle will always be justified.”

the Armed struggle may not necessarily be an, “end in itself,” but one only has to look at the gains made by Sinn Fein / PIRA to see that such a tactic worked in the past.

the very fact that PICADOR indicates, “thus the North remains under British jurisdaiction,” is the only reason ‘True / Traditional’ Republicans need…

As Gregory stated on another post, “there would not be many tears shed in the Nationalist community due as a result of the killing of British soldiers.” The point is, he is stating the truth, as although there may never be a return to full scale violence, resentment still exists underneath the surface.

Why would the master tread carefully?

Ah, the cult of the gun. (shakes head)

When the means of pursuing the struggle, i.e. physical force, takes on more importance than the end of the struggle, i.e. the Republic, then the struggle is lost and the people who pursuing it are little more than psycopaths.

Armed struggle is not an end in itself. It is only a tactic; and it is a tactic that failed spectacularly between 1971 and 1997 – thus the North remains under British jurisdiction.

You seem to be a bit of an Internet hero e.g.b. Why don’t you put your money words into action and join the freedom-fighters?

Well yeah… Whenever Sinn Fein / PIRA decided to turn their backs upon traditional Republican ideologies, then it was only a matter of time before another groups emerged to fill that void…

True Irish republicanism has always resorted to the “Armed stuggle,” eg:

United Irishman
IRB
Fenians
ICA
Irish Volunteers
IRA

http://bnp.org.uk/2009/03/county-antrim-killings-“justification-for-return-of-the-death-penalty”-says-bnp-defence-spokesman/

The purpose of (the dissident repulican movement) have been the same as the main stream repulican movement!

The following is NOT my opinion, but clarification / explanation to those not from the North…

The soldiers are deemed as “legitimate targets,” therefore such an operation would be justified from a Republican perspective. It is irrelevant if they were local or from the mainland, once in uniform they became “legitimate targets.”

Obviously, depending upon a persons political belief’s, the definition of the action would change from “murdered,” to “executed…” by “paramilitaries” to “freedom fighters.” Therefore ones beliefs affect the parameters of the incident.

The media and “new” Sinn Fein coined the ridiculous phrase, “dissident.” Let’s not ignore the fact that it was Sinn Fein that turned its back upon traditional Republican ideologies:

- Supporting the British Occupation via the Executive
- Supporting / acknowledging the PSNI (effectively rubber stamping the existence of N.I.)

Therefore it was only a matter of time before “True” Republicans mounted a backlash…

In terms of:
post 24: Oglaigh na Eireann is the Gaelic name of the IRA.
post 22: The pizza delivery men were providing a service to British personnal, therefore could be deemed as “legitimate targets.”

One only has to look over Irish history to realise that once Republicanism obtains a political voice / mandate, then such groups eventually move away from traditional republican ideologies. Eventually, these are replaced by others, thus the cycle continues…

but in reality they exposed a horrible stupidity still present at the heart of many Republican circles in the north.

Really? I think you need to frequent more ‘Republican circles’. The vast majority of people, Republican and other, are against this attack and have condemned it.

If it is a Republican group who are responsible, they have very limited support and no political platform.

Whoever carried out this attack (be it a Republican group or some sort of intelligence service), it serves nobody. All our political parties have condemned it and there are no political points to be scored.

Violence gets us nowhere.

Harry,

BBC and Sky have 24 hour news channels. So obviously they are prepared and ready for events at any hour, unlike RTE, who probably have dim-wits working during a Saturday evening.

Though for it not to even be on the website more than an hour after the event is worthy of strong complaint from viewers in any part of the island.

@ Mr O’Connell: Tread very carefully with that argument.

Well no actually a fair amount of the information I found interesting came from people who knew a bit about the circumstances of the particular barracks and the security issues involved.

But beyond that I agree that most of the info came from the MSM but it took sites like Slugger to coalesce them. For instance if all you had was the BBC or SKY then from about midnight until 8am you would have got no new info, if you were reliant solely on Ireland’s main state run news agency RTE you simply wouldn’t have had a clue what happened or what was going on.

I am not saying there is no need for the big news agencies but if you want to find out the real story you’ll have to hit the blogs I’m afraid.

In the old days all you got was the hourly radio news bulletins and the two evening TV news programmes, in the meantime all sorts of awful rumours circulated and often caused dreadful consequences. Now an issue can be discussed instantly and any wild nonsense can get damped down quickly thanks to the internet.

I’ll give credit for the MSM people who went out on the street and got the facts and details out to the public and the internet which allowed them to do so. In the meantime the fat lazy institutionalized “journos” who spent Saturday night in the pub and who sneer at and dismiss the blogs are looking like the dinosaurs that they are.

Anyone with an eye can see that when the going gets tough for Sinn Fein, the dissidents up their attacks. This was very clear during the the five months period without government when the dissident campaign stepped up to increase pressure on Sinn Fein’s opponents in the DUP and Brit Gov. Last night it was to do with the Special Forces announcement.

For all the animosity between Sinn Fein and the dissidents there has been very little in the way of targeting Sinn Fein, who are supposed to be traitors.

You are like Jim Allister. You are dreaming up things to say that gives people ideas. If you have no evidence to back up what your daying then do us a favour and shut up