Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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instance, I think this presently applies to the Black population of South
Africa, who are victimized by violence continually and have no means of
defense against this except armed struggle. But even in wars of liberation,
where there is no other recourse, I think moral rules still apply. I am totally
opposed to some of the activities of some liberation movements, in which
civilians are indiscriminately slaughtered. For instance, I totally condemn the
Provisional l.R.A. of the present for tactics like the bombing of Harrod's, a
leading department store in London, when it was full of families with
children during the Christmas shopping season.
What is the cause of this continued violence 63 years after the Treaty of 1921?
The partition of Ireland.
What do you reply to those who say that if the British pulled out, the violence between the
Provisional l.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitary groups like the Ulster Volunteer Force
would simply escalate?
That is the British propaganda line and I simply do not believe it. I am
quite confident that getting the British troops out of Ireland is the first step
toward a peaceful solution. The original cause of the violence is the partition
of Ireland and the continuing cause is the presence of British troops on Irish
soil. Much of the violence by paramilitary Protestant groups is actually
guided and inspired by British intelligence agents.
Do you have personal knowledge of that?
As a lawyer, I have defended British intelligence agents sent over here to
the Republic of Ireland to incide the l.R.A. to carry out bank robberies. I have
also defended British agents who have been given lists of people to
assassinate and have it blamed on the l.R.A.
1TV, the Ulster television station, recently charged that some of the violence in the 1960s,
attributed to the l.R.A. at the time, was actually the work of persons trying to make it appear the
l.R.A. was active at a time when it was actually dormant, virtually non-existent. Your comment?
Well, I just said that British intelligence have done that sort of thing down
here. Why wouldn't they do it up there?
In that connection, what do you make of the C.I.A. connection with the l.R.A.? During the
NORA1D trial in New York last year it was demonstrated that the C.l.A. was running guns
for the l.R.A. Why would they do that—provide munitions for Marxist revolutionaries?
I cannot begin to guess. Once you get into the machinations of secret
services, anything is possible.
There is a rumor around Dublin that some of the Trilateralists, such as Kissinger and Vice
President Bush, who have been over here meeting with Irish government officials, are feeling out