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Whenever mainstream politicians get up and praise those in the past, they open the door to those who want to continue terrorism now. To take the Irish republican example, if someone is, in essence, saying that what happened in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s was justified, someone recruiting for a republican organisation or a loyalist paramilitary group will say, on the one hand, “Our aim in the 1970s was Brits out”—that was supposedly the only alternative. “Our aim remains that today, so come and join us and be involved with us”. That is something that is all pervasive and not simply theoretical.