Quote of the day
posted at 11:07 pm on November 15, 2007 by Bryan
“As an Irish-Catholic kid in the 1980s, I remember being disgusted with the thugs and the terrorists in the [Irish Republican Army] and I don’t remember anyone who was Irish-American saying to Tom Clancy after “Patriot Games”: “How dare you portray people in the IRA for what they were, a bunch of thugs and terrorists?” What drives me nuts is people like [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] who, any time somebody in fiction or on TV has a villain who happens to portray what is going on in the world today — Islamic radicals who embrace a cult of death and are running around killing innocent women and children — they get upset about it.”
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Sadly, there was still support for the IRA among Irish-Americans. Even Congressmen (Peter King for one, and now he has the audacity to latch on to the anti-jihad cause) and Senators (Kennedy) were sympathetic to them. At least Irish-Americans didn’t have billions of green ones like CAIR does.
mram on November 15, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Should have posted this in the previous post: Peter King’s past and present relationship with the IRA. His stance on Islamic terrorism is only making up for his support of IRA thugs in the past.
Still looking for Kennedy’s support of the IRA.
mram on November 15, 2007 at 11:17 PM
So let them have their death cult. Let’s get going on getting away from this gas/oil culture and let them fight, kill and cut each others heads off over there….
No money – no power. Let them eat dust….
Dr. Gecko on November 15, 2007 at 11:18 PM
It’s in the Koran Bryan, google it!
Kini on November 15, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Vince Flynn kicks ass. His Rapp books range from very good to friggin’ awesome. If you like spy books with a pro-American slant, kick-ass action, and actually extremely good, witty writing, he’s your man.
RW Wacko on November 15, 2007 at 11:19 PM
What’s in the Koran?
RW Wacko on November 15, 2007 at 11:21 PM
What drove my parents nuts is people like [the Council on American-Germanic Relations and the Council on American-Nipponese Relations] who, any time somebody in fiction or in a movie has a villain who happens to portray what is going on in the world today — German Storm troopers and Japanese marauders who embrace a cult of conquest and subjugation and are running around killing innocent men, women and children — they get upset about it.
Oh wait. That didn’t happen did it?
MB4 on November 15, 2007 at 11:22 PM
That is what you are suppose to use for doing you-know-what if you run out of TP.
MB4 on November 15, 2007 at 11:24 PM
We’re going to have to work that word ‘hypocrisy’ into a constitutional ammendment. Or better yet… Can we ammend the ‘Bill of Rights?’ Doesn’t hypocrisy qualify as an inalienable right in America at this point?
By the way Bryan I’ve enjoyed your extra input around here lately. And AP is shining brighter than ever as always. All of Hot Air is doing a great job. Thank you.
Griz on November 15, 2007 at 11:24 PM
I thought you said “What’s
inthe Koran”.MB4 on November 15, 2007 at 11:25 PM
This comment is the difference…..
Between religious extremism and political activism.
Both Terrorism, no difference.
Kini on November 15, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Just like why a dog licks themselves, CAIR gets upset, gets results and gets away with it, because they can.
BTW thugs and terrorism by way of gangs, drugs, smugglers of all kinds and criminal activity in general has worked pretty well as the private army of reconquistadors since the 70s.
Apparently the Judiciary is a little off track.
Speakup on November 15, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Actually, they don’t get upset. They salivate when they find anyone they can try to sue.
Connie on November 15, 2007 at 11:49 PM
All kinds of good stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDxM9oHLp3k
infidel4life on November 15, 2007 at 11:56 PM
I love this guy’s books.
ZRyan on November 16, 2007 at 12:03 AM
Gets It! Right ON!
No, that used to be the Sears catalog, now the Lowes catalog.
As Penance.
Kini on November 16, 2007 at 12:12 AM
Heh, I was just wondering why you were asking Bryan to google the Koran. Didn’t seem relevant to the post somehow, to ask Bryan to google the Koran?
RW Wacko on November 16, 2007 at 1:10 AM
Excellent Point!
My family would bring over kids from Belfast in the early 80′s (Project Children)for the summer and they wold tell us the horrors committed by the IRA and our Irish Catholic household had nothing but contempt for those terrorists.
186k on November 16, 2007 at 1:13 AM
M Savage has quite a lot to say about CAIR.
Ugly on November 16, 2007 at 5:44 AM
Vince Flynn’s books would make terrific movies and bring lots of dough to Hollywood. Several caveats though.
1. Scripts would have to be left alone. Let Flynn have final say on it. No fair changing bad buys from Islamic terrorists to, say, Swiss bankers.
2. Some hot Matt Damon type guy, who would be believable as a former Navy Seal, would have to play MItch Rapp.
3. Hollywood hotshots would have to swallow their liberal-Anti-Americanism, wake up and smell the coffee, and make a movie about the war that Americans want to see.
Think it would ever happen? Not bloody likely. No time soon, anyway.
Qzsusy on November 16, 2007 at 7:04 AM
Patriot Games, now that’s an excellent book.
But this whole thing is just part of the master plan, which, I might say, has been going off without a hitch. And we’re so tolerant we just sit back and let it happen.
Bob's Kid on November 16, 2007 at 8:36 AM
Just finished protect and defend like all his books it kicks butt.
Kill Zone is next
400lb Gorilla on November 16, 2007 at 8:54 AM
But CAIR is rising to the challenge. In fact they are even offering helpful material to journalists, but not bloggers for some unexplained reason to get Beyond Stereotypes.
LakeRuins on November 16, 2007 at 9:09 AM
What gets me all fired up is that in Northern Ireland, it is always the IRA who are terrorists. Not the UDA or UVF or any other Protestant gang. Not only did Catholics have to defend themselves against these Protestant gangs, but had a corrupt RUC aiding and abetting these thugs. Not to mention widespread job discrimination against Catholics keeping the population in abject poverty.
So, what would you have done here? The IRA was one source that was defending Catholics in the region. Now, I am not saying they are completely innocent, but exactly who was going to defend the Catholic community?
Oh, and another thing, and I know I am going to get ripped on this, but IRA terrorists and Islamic terrorists are not the same thing. IRA specifically went after military and economic targets and have even warned of impending bombs to minimize civilian casualties, not like the Islamo-terrorists who try try to inflict as much death as possible.
Finally, without the IRA or Sinn Fein, there would have been no peace agreement. Now that the steps to peace have been taken, I do believe it is time for the IRA to disband because I feel now they are becoming a criminal gang rather than an army against oppression.
But to compare the IRA to al-Qaeda, Hezbollah or Hamas is a monumental reach.
kcluva on November 16, 2007 at 9:30 AM
I couldn’t have said what you have any better. Michael Collins and Eamon Delavera would concur in part.
MNDavenotPC on November 16, 2007 at 11:32 AM
MNDavenotPC,
Thank you! And bless their souls!
kcluva on November 16, 2007 at 3:23 PM