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The Real IRA pose a threat to the United States through
a) their criminal network which works closely with the Dublin mafia,
b) the fact that they are a white-identity organization, and
c) the fact that not just the RIRA but Republicanism in general has the goal (either through "peaceful"political means or violent means) to effect the ethnic cleansing of Protestants from Northern Ireland, labelling them as 'Occupying Brits'.
The RIRA reject the mainstream IRA's agreement to the political peace process and the rejection of terrorist tactics, so their goal is to disrupt, upset and menace everyone who does not share their views.
Currently they are trying to
a) negatively affect the local economy of areas in Northern Ireland such as in Derry/Londonderry, with bombs, causing a cascade of disillusionment and the kind of benefits-dependency that fosters radicalism,
b) bring British troops and army patrols back into Northern Ireland to foster a sense of occupation and encourage oppression to validate their views, and
c) menace out everyone they don't like.
This can affect Americans in different ways. First of all, American tourists are already fed a line of Republican Propaganda which completely negates the existence of Protestants as anything other than radical oppressors, which is patently untrue. And if an American tourist gets fed this propaganda but then gets blown up on a tour bus by an RIRA bomb, this would be very bad press. So they treat Americans with white kid gloves knowing they don't want to awaken the "Sleeping Giant". If an RIRA operation comes near an American, they've got major bad press to scramble.
Instead, the RIRA chooses to operate in the United States and raise money via "Plastic Paddy" Americans lacking in white identity, feeding them a romantic Celtic view of Irish freedom and history like a bad rendition of "Braveheart" and getting Americans to dig deep in their pockets to support "political prisoners" and "send food/presents/etc to families suffering from British occupation and oppression". (This, of course, is BS; I'm American and swallowed the Braveheart BS...and then I moved here and learned that Braveheart was actually Trainspotting. Rotten, sad, and in this day and age, self-inflicted.)
US Money for Oglaigh na hÉireann, the National Irish Freedom Committee etc (ie RIRA) etc for "political prisoners" means that these political prisoners sure do love bullets, semtex, batteries, fertilizer, and used Fords.
The risk to Americans comes in calling their bluff and disrupting their supply lines. As with any mafia organization, this is unacceptable, and if you're in the US and start operating against the RIRA network, and you're not protected by the likes of the UVF or Police Service of Northern Ireland, you might well be a sitting duck.
Americans who support the RIRA have a very skewed and romantic view of freedom. They're almost all US Republicans, which is a joke; Republicanism in Ireland by policy is socialist and very nearly Communist. Many RIRA supporters in the US are US Protestants, descended from Ulster Protestants who left Ireland 200 years ago. Why? Because they were being killed by Fenians, ie today's Republicans. And, no Protestant from the North in Ireland is ever able to enter the ranks of the IRA, for one simple reason: it's unthinkable; it's an ethnic cleansing organization to get rid of Protestants calling them "Brits". This means that US Protestants who are IRA sympathisers are nothing more than jokes to Republicans, and there is only one thing they want from you: your money.
As I learned, if you go there to play Braveheart, you're a trad-music-playing romantic middle-class Protestant, and unwilling to integrate into a harsh and grotesque Trainspotting mafia reality, you will learn quickly that they do NOT want you there, and they do NOT want you waking up to the reality and telling other Americans that it's all a lie.
The biggest danger the RIRA as well as Sinn Féin poses to Americans, is propaganda. They want your money to kill, menace, and outshout people- even though mainstream SF have only 14% of Dáil seats in the Republic of Ireland.
They're terrorists, and their tactics are well-worn and familiar.
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