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Old 03-10-11, 06:09 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus View Post
Also wasn't Mr King a staunch supporter of Gerry Adams and the IRA during the time that they were bombing the UK and killing British soldiers and other Irish people? So isn't it a bit of pot calling the kettle black?
Was? He still is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...030406635.html

This could not describe the situation better:

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"My problem with him is the hypocrisy," said Tom Parker, a counterterrorism specialist at Amnesty International who was injured by an IRA bomb that struck a birthday party at a military hall in London in 1990. "If you say that terrorist violence is acceptable in one setting because you happen to agree with the cause, then you lose the authority to condemn it in another setting."
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