{"id":729,"date":"2005-02-21T03:15:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:01","slug":"terrorist_suppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Supporters in Northie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve smacked Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber more than a bit – and regret none of it – but the guy made sense on something this week, and I won’t be able to live with myself until I compliment him for it.<\/p>\n

He suggested that President Bush not receive the Sinn Fein representative at the White House<\/a> this St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n

If the government wants to send out the right signals it should go ahead and hold the function – but invite only representatives of those political parties that are committed exclusively to democratic politics. This may sound like diplomatic niceties – but it would send a quite powerful signal, and, I suspect, have a substantial chastening effect on a group of people who are in sore need of chastening.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Makes good sense to me. <\/p>\n

And it’s timely. Here’s the Guardian<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in was in crisis last night as another prominent member in the Irish republic was dragged into the multi-million pound IRA money-laundering investigation police say could connect republicans to the \u00a326.5m Northern Bank robbery.<\/p>\n

\nAs the first of the seven people arrested in raids across Cork and Dublin this week appeared in court charged with IRA membership, a former Sinn F\u00e9in vice-president and one of the most well-connected bankers in the country was helping the police with their inquiries. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The depth of U.S. support for the IRA during the bloody 1980’s can’t be overstated.<\/p>\n

And it’s a shameful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve smacked Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber more than a bit – and regret none of it – but the guy made sense on something this week, and I won’t be able to live with myself until I compliment him for it. He suggested that President Bush not receive the Sinn Fein representative at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}