the United Kingdom Thing Hasnt Worked Out for Anyone
now we Are Rolling to a United Ireland Slowelly

Yahh Ireland

The Indians are still pissed as are a few others and it has been well over 100 years. People in the South were still very upset about our Civil War within my lifetime.

Who was contibuting the most….me personally I would say the Cop, but that depends on your outlook now doesn’t it. Not much different than the Isrealis and the Palestanians from were I am sitting.

I think we would both agree that regardless of how many in Northern Ireland feel about being under the thumb of the Crown, the majority on both sides would prefer to live in peace and quiet.

Just when you thought the 20th century was bad.

Which all happened over a hundred years before your ancestors did the same things, and worse, to the Native Americans. I don’t see many of them gunning down pizza delivery boys and blowing up civilians because of it. Would you sympathise with them as well if they did?

The RUC were the ones keeping the peace here, I doubt if they would need your help with it. As one officer once said “I don’t ever go to work with the intention of killing someone. The terrorists intend to kill someone every time they go to work”.

The Police officer murdered last night went to work with the intention of helping a woman in distress, the terrorists went to work with the intention of murdering him and any civilians that got in the way. Which one of them do you think was contributing most to the people of Northern Ireland?

When the Crown evicted Catholic landowners in Northern Ireland, confiscated their land and implanted Protestant Scots and Angelicans the Crown soed the seeds of discontent.

The Catholics appreciated that about as much as you would appreciate someone implanting a bunch of Muslims in your neighborhood and requiring you to live under Sharia Law…..I would garner to say you would be quite pissed off.

As for the ‘likeable lads’, I am sure the RUC Lads are just as likelble as long as the two sides aren’t in the same room It is not a spot I would wish to be in the middle of while trying to keep the peace.

If I had my ex’s address I would give it to the IRA, but that’s a different story.

The reason that Northern Ireland is still part of the UK is that the majority of people who live in Northern Ireland want it to remain part of the UK. We call that democracy.

Your “very likeable lads” from the IRA believe if they murder enough people they can force that to change regardless of what the majority want. We call that terrorism.

Well some people are questioning as to why the Marines are particpating in civilian operations such as DUI check points. If they start doing that in my town I won’t be happy, it is un-Constitutional and should not happen IMO.

JS

The North of Ireland is still part of the UK….but the remainder of Ireland is a Free State not under the UK.

Why is that Adam?

Why do the USMC feel the need to maintain such a strong presence in California? Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and happens to be where those soldiers are based. They were not there to conduct operations, they had as I said completed their pre deployment training and were about to deploy to Afghanistan.

The Army only provides a very small number of specialist soldiers to support the Police here in NI, exactly the same specialists that the Police can ask for support in the rest of the UK. Responsibility for security rests firmly with the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

So I met some nice folks from the IRA. Very likeable lads with wives and smiling kids, several thousand other Irish Decendents of the area attended as well. The music was interesting, Celtic cheer with lyrics of distain. If you didn’t know the language you’d have thought it was a party of fun and frolic.

That was my experience. No where did I say or not say they were justified in their actions. What I did say was that the media spins one side of the story (sound familiar) and that if a government, group or person had or did caused my loved ones hardship I would not look too kindly upon them.

Right or wrong whether Orange or Green, Sunni or Shia people don’t forget when they preceive they have been wronged. Then add someones political agenda, some media spin and there you have it.

Bobby Sands, Ben Franklin, George Washington, The Crown, Sein Fein, Osama Bin Laden, Mao, Lenin….each of them Oppressed or the Oppressor, a Terrorist or a Freedom Fighter depending on your perception of what is right or wrong.

In our own present day political environment more and more people are drawing a line in the sand, some feel it wrong, some feel it is right.

It is all in your preception of things.