Reminds me of Yes Prime Minister when he had to appoint an archbishop and Sir Humphrey said "his views are a bit controversial - he's an aetheist".....................
Really ? So the Provisional IRA are not a sectarian organisation and didn't target people because of their religion or specific community ?
There's actually a Scottish 'politician' who's pitched up over here who has been banned from both the OO AND the BNP!
Ok, Boaby Sawns, a walloper who let himself be politically manipulated into a "protest" until death by masters who were themselves politically outmanoeuvred. That about the size of it? "I shall protest by not eating" Fair enough, less cost to the tax payer.
It happened, it was wrong and usually done at a localised level in reprisal. The PIRA were not a sectarian organisation. They had Protestants in their ranks, in fact one of their leading lights, Ivor Bell who along with Adams and other structured the post 1974 Provos was a Protestant. He was Chief of Staff of the Provos for a time.
In other words gang lords who were looking after their own interests. And why wouldn't they? They had a good wee enterprise going.
Yeah, no protection rackets were run, nobody 'political' was making any money. Nobody was trying to protect their own financial interest.