"could you explain that remark please,"
It's all in the definition Ake - I have nothing to explain
" if Scottish Nats started slaughtering innocent people in England, would you describe them as freedom fighters?"
No more than I would describe Isis as such - but until they do your question is meaningless nonsense.
The extreme Protestant right have been persecuting their Catholic opponents since the border was imposed in 1922 - that persecution, backed by British and establishment collusion culminated in 'The Troubles
The Unionists introduced the gun into 20th century Irish politics prior to the War of independence a and were first to begin the bombing campaign in the late 1960s, making 'The Troubles' an act of self-defence
It's all in some book or other
"The Tories are forming a coalition with a party backed by terrorists"
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dup-conservatives-northern-ireland-coalition-ulster-defence-association-paramilitaries-peace-process-a7782631.html
Jim Carroll