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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by DerDangDerDang on Monday April 11, 2016 @06:34AM (#11470615)
To his credit, when I saw him speak in the late nineties and some in the audience cheered when Jim McCann (his IRA contact) was mentioned, he stopped and spent several minutes explaining that Jim McCann was a horrible human being.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by asddubs on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:13AM (#11471208)
I can understand that reaction. In his book, he seems a bit like a fun goof, when you don't factor in that it's describing reality
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by alex_hitchins on Monday April 11, 2016 @07:18AM (#11470773)
So horrible that he did business with him.
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Re:Howard Marks obituary: 'Britain's most charming drug smug... by junto on Monday April 11, 2016 @07:49AM (#11470888)
To be fair, the both sides were historically full of despicable acts.

The IRA were criminals first and political terrorists second. The entire IRA operations revolved around profiteering from guns, drugs, prostitution and protection rackets. If you are working in a criminal underground in Ireland there wasn't/isn't much choice but to deal with them.

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