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.
He had involvement with the IRA to smuggle drugs through Ireland, they used the money to buy guns to kill loyalists.
Sounds more like the CIA
Then you may have a strangely rosy view of the kinds of organizations that the CIA is working against.
Like democratically elected governments in sovereign states?
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.
Most governments around the world have "blown people up quite a bit". Is anyone who works with any government now immoral?
The IRA aren't/weren't in government. The IRA are terrorists.
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.
Society can be quite fickle and forgetful sometimes when it comes to that sort of thing
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.