What have Adams and Hitler in common? - They both have shed their own blood for their beliefs

What have Padraig Pearse and Timothy McVeigh in common. - They both have been executed for their convictions

What have Martin Luther King and the Ulster Orangemen in common? - They both met with opposition when marching

That's a silly game. It is called 'guilt by association' and its objective is to find a superficial similarity between any two (or more) that can only impress someone who doesn't like to think.

As for Adams, I'm reading at the moment an unauthorised biography of this man. If he succeeds in the long run at what he tries right now, to bring the main part of the IRA into following a peaceful strategy without changing the final aim, then he'll be considered (rightly) in fifty years from now a great man, whatever he may have done when he was young.

Wolfgang