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"  I dropped by Ezra Klein&amp;#039;s new joint yesterday because I saw that they had a story about how the British government is seeking to link Gerry Adams with the 1972 murder of a woman named Jean McConville. I have been interested in this case because, in an assault on free academic inquiry that shamefully was joined by the Department of Justice, the British authorities forced open the archives of researchers at Boston College who had been compiling an oral history of the Troubles, and who had been doing so by promising their interviewees that their material would be held in confidence until after their deaths. It&amp;#039;s a fascinating case with ramifications that obviously reach out in many directions. Which is why the preschool approach to the story that Vox left me looking for a fondue fork to stick in my eye. Look at this puerile flummery.  Woah, an Irish member of Parliament killed someone? We don&amp;#039;t know yet. All media reports released to date say is that Adams was arrested &amp;quot;in connection&amp;quot; with the McConville murder, so we don&amp;#039;t know what role the authorities are alleging he played. Adams himself vehemently denies any involvement in the case, and voluntarily submitted to police questioning. So there&amp;#039;s no real public evidence yet.  First of all, how can you misspell &amp;quot;Whoa,&amp;quot; especially in a headline? Second, and infinitely more important, the original Irish Parliament, to say nothing of the original government of the Irish Free State, and then the Republic of Ireland, was chockfull of people who had &amp;quot;killed someone,&amp;quot; or ordered the killing of someone. Michael Collins was the Minister of Defense for the IFS, for pity&amp;#039;s sake. Liam Tobin was a member of Collins&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Squad&amp;quot; that helped decapitate the British intelligence service in Ireland and, eventually, Tobin became the superintendent of the Dail Eireann. There are, of course, examples beyond Ireland. We continue with our fingerpainting now.  So what you&amp;#039;re saying is that a former terrorist is now a respected Irish politician. Sort of. It&amp;#039;s complicated! From the 1960s till 1998, Northern Ireland was the Israel/Palestine of Europe, a religio-political struggle over land that wound up killing about 3,500 people. The region is located in the north of the Irish island, but remained under British rule even after the rest of Ireland became independent. Largely Catholic &amp;quot;Irish republicans&amp;quot; wanted Northern Ireland to join Ireland proper; largely Protestant &amp;quot;unionists&amp;quot; wanted to remain part of Britain.  See above. This makes the average USA Today pie chart look like it was compiled by the Durants. Mother of god, kids. Do better. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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