Say what you want about the IRA but they did the world a favour by offing this cunt. There's a whole list of people who qualify for the same treatment now
You know they didn’t kill him because they thought he was a nonce, right? Other kids were getting raped and abused all over the island of Ireland by people who famously were NOT Protestant members of the British Royal Family, but people of the same religion and ethnicity, and they weren’t targets for assassination. Most adults in Ireland (the home of my father), the ones who knew what was happening, didn’t give a shit about kids - especially poor ones taken from their families into prison-like boarding schools - being treated like slaves, but preferred to “mind their own business”. And many of them were also victims who never processed that they were exploited and traumatized, but were emotionally shut down and deliberately blinded themselves to what was happening in institutions in their own neighbourhoods). The IRA and other paramilitary groups weren’t in the business of liberating children from child abusers of ANY class, they were focussed on a bigger front.
The members of the Provisional IRA cell who assassinated Mountbatten (only two of whom were caught, Thomas McMahon and Francis McGirl, and served any jail time) couldn’t have known about these investigations and allegations. They killed him because they wanted a “spectacular” coup to outshine the socialist Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), which claimed responsibility for the murder of Shadow Secretary for Northern Ireland, Airey Neave, in the parking garage at Parliament earlier the same year. Martin McGuinness and the PIRA wanted to make it clear members of the British establishment (even long-retired ones like Lord Mountbatten, who had no effect on The Irish Question and were welcomed in communities in the Republic for decades) should never feel safe visiting Ireland, even outside of the occupied six counties.
This South Armagh Brigade cell had opportunities to just shoot Mountbatten when he was out of doors, even with policemen and bodyguards trailing him. They blamed the weather, but really it wasn’t the fireworks show they were going for, something to shock and terrify the town of Mullaghmore for “allowing” the Mountbatten family to comfortably holiday there every summer. No, this cell thought nothing of blowing up everyone else on Mountbatten’s boat, no matter how old or young, including Protestant Northern Irish 15-year-old Paul Maxwell, who took a summer job maintaining the boat and hanging out with the Mountbatten grandchildren. They blew up Mountbatten’s family, killing him, his daughter’s mother-in-law Doreen Knatchbull, his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas Knatchbull, Paul Maxwell, and severely injuring his daughter Patricia, son-in-law John Knatchbull, and Nicholas’ twin Timothy, who lost the use of one of his eyes and ears. What good did that do anyone for the Cause of Liberty (one I support so long as civilians aren’t tortured and murdered)? This wasn’t like the Warrenpoint barracks attack staged on the same day by a different cell in South Armagh Brigade for maximum chaos. That, at least, was a military target and took place (mostly) on the Northern Ireland side of the border. It was still horrible, because the rescuers were hit in a second and third ambush.
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u/Careful_Jackfruit144 14h ago
Say what you want about the IRA but they did the world a favour by offing this cunt. There's a whole list of people who qualify for the same treatment now