I made myself a promise at the weekend: That I would not write a single solitary word about the violent attack carried out by an organisation calling itself Anti Imperialist Action at the weekend against members of an organisation calling itself Clann Eireann, until I had given the mainstream media time to do so.
After all, our friends in the mainstream media abhor political violence and political extremism, and here was an example of explicitly political violence carried out by people who are explicitly political extremists. Not only was the violence carried out, but it was advertised in public, reaching a social media audience (at the time of writing) of 255,300 people:
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