Did you intend your post to be an endorsement of NI paramilitaries? I didn't read it like that, but everyone else seems to be doing a round of IRA whataboutism in response.

I was linking to a loyalist paramilitary. Many Americans have a very strange view of Northern Ireland, seem to think that one bunch of terrorists are lovely people and the other bunch don't exist

That's what I thought; you were merely pointing out the existence of paramilitary groups on the loyalist side, in addition to the more familiar (to those in the US) IRA.

Guess the comment strife is to be expected.

Is this evidence that the UVA is/was not a paramilitary, or just you declaring your support for them?

Your not familiar with the term ?