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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by tim333 on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:52AM (#11470358)
I was thinking that. All he did was import a good deal of cannabis which is now becoming legal in many places. I'm not sure he was involved in any violence. He did seem rather wrecked when I saw him talk which was probably not a great ad for smoking loads.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by tablewatcher on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:05AM (#11470388)
He had involvement with the IRA to smuggle drugs through Ireland, they used the money to buy guns to kill loyalists.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by dabeeeenster on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:32AM (#11470455)
Sounds more like the CIA
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by tome on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:17AM (#11471231)
Then you may have a strangely rosy view of the kinds of organizations that the CIA is working against.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by ethanbond on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:03PM (#11474231)
Like democratically elected governments in sovereign states?
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by alex_hitchins on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:05AM (#11470389)
Working with the IRA was enough for me to dislike the man. People seem to forget the IRA used to blow people up quite a bit.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by oneeyedpigeon on Monday April 11, 2016 @07:35AM (#11470826)
Most governments around the world have "blown people up quite a bit". Is anyone who works with any government now immoral?
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by alex_hitchins on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:00PM (#11474208)
The IRA aren't/weren't in government. The IRA are terrorists.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:21AM (#11478864)
I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I'm simply saying that, if nobody did any work with any 'organisation' that has blown people up, a lot fewer people would be in work right now.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by zo1 on Monday April 11, 2016 @08:36AM (#11471057)
Society can be quite fickle and forgetful sometimes when it comes to that sort of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe

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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by tim333 on Monday April 11, 2016 @06:03AM (#11470532)
I googled the IRA involvement at it looks like he didn't work with them directly but he worked with another smuggler, James McCann who did smuggle arms to the IRA.
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