RIRA Threatens British Bankers; English Optimistic

[frigidmagi]

Yahoo

The Real IRA has said it will resume attacks on the UK mainland - with banks and bankers its principal targets.

Vowing to alternate between "military, political and economic targets", the republican terror group has said that bankers are "criminals" and their role in funding Britain's colonial and capitalist system "has not gone unnoticed".

Responding to questions from The Guardian, a spokesman for the Real IRA said: "We have a track record of attacking high-profile economic targets and financial institutions.

"The bankers grease the politicians' palms, the politicians bail out the bankers with public funds, the bankers pay themselves fat bonuses and loan the money back to the public with interest.

"It's essentially a crime spree that benefits a social elite at the expense of many millions of victims."

Although it has just 100 members, the Real IRA has claimed support is on the rise among young disaffected nationalists, according to the paper.

However, unlike the Provisional IRA - which consistently targeted the City of London in the early 1990s and then Canary Wharf in 1996 - it has never launched a serious bombing campaign.

But the terror organisation has told the paper: "We have regrouped and reorganised and emerged from a turbulent period in republican history.

"As we rebuild, we are confident that we will increase the volume and effectiveness of attacks."

The RIRA is a splinter group of the PIRA. I should note that the IRA in it's slaugtheriffic, child killing, glory days also swore to overthrow the Irish government after it kicked out the English and all the native born North Irish who wanted them there (well they're actually the native born great great grandchildren of Scottish settlers, it's a long story).

[Mayabird]

This makes me think of the scenario and prediction I'd made a while back: someone with a murderous inclination finally gets it through their heads that bankers are to blame...so they end up walking into a bank and shooting the tellers there or some equivalent, killing people with absolutely no power or say in the actual system who were themselves just trying to get by.

[SirNitram]

I'm just surprised they took this long. The 'terrorists = brown people' stupidity was the perfect cover.