Re: qustion for Peter Urban

Date: 6th June '01

Name: EOM

Country: Ireland

Thanks for the reply. As for P-S. below, that hardly counts as the Provo's
main US supporters backing execution does it? There is a serious discussion to be had
on why SF tolerates racism among SOME of its US supporters, but point scoring by
irrelevent sectarians just pisses people off. I lived in NYC for some years and among
both Irish and Irish American communities racism is pretty much the norm. However the
same can be said for Italian, Jewish, Latinos etc.
SF supporters in Ireland know this but usually just say 'we only need them for the
money etc" Actually most Irish Americans don't support them anyway, they don't even
vote for Clinton! (By the way of the 40 million or so Irish Americans a small
majority are Protestant) The minority who do support the Provos are further divided by
clued in people and the bar room variety. It did annoy me to see an NYPD cop on
page 3 of APRN last year calling for the disbandment of the RUC, seeing as his force
have killed more people in 10 years than the RUC did in 30.
However like the issue of racism in general this is complicated and I don't think the
IRSP posts on this contribute much to the discussion. (and no I didn't like to see
Clinton getting welcomed by SF either but as I'm not an activist I'm not going to
accuse them of sell outs etc etc.)

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