In Northern Ireland - A Grotesque Carnivals of Vilification Comments

Bowling King apk

Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:18:27 +0000

Nice and interesting

Victor Mace

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:22:45 +0000

You are just plain and utterly ignorant Alex,the Irish are the indigenous people of Ireland, read a proper book on what the British have done to Ireland and a great deal more countries around the world and then maybe you will be qualified to make some statements that are actually based on truth !

Vilified

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:16:15 +0000

When, in the 50s, our VP-5 navy Neptune landed in North Ireland on a good will tour, we had to fill a questionnaire which, among other questions, asked what our religions were. Since some of our crew were Catholics, we were restricted as to where we went in Belfast.

Jigsaw

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:48:02 +0000

"The Irish I seem to remember wiped out the original indigenous people of Ireland" You mean the Irish legend about the invasions of the Fey people with their magic cauldrons and what not? Which allegedly took place in the Bronze age (and which wouldn't have wiped out the previous inhabitants either) and your reasoning is that this justifies British colonialism in the modern era? This is what I mean when I said above insane, completely M a.d as a box of frogs.

Palisade

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:02:33 +0000

Actually you have it almost precisely back to front. The Protestants in NI are the fundamentalist types by and large and they oppose abortion as much as staunch Catholics. Opposing abortion is certainly not fascism either, the rest of what you say is based on vague stereotypes about Catholicism. Interestingly historically both the Catholic Church and the Protestant ones supported British misrule in Ireland!

jerry

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:28:00 +0000

Ireland is under the same strains many nations today suffer with. Divisions along every line in the sands of humanity is destructive to any people but yet these affinities often moored deeply in the past seem to raise the ugly heads and cause undo strain in Northern Ireland each year. When the population of any given nation begons to aggregate around social justice issues, demands for sane foreign and economic policy and cares and protections for the poor, the old clubs of division march against to their own drummers seeking marchers for their causes unknowingly dividing and conquering themselves in this way/ It's deceptive rhetorics that incite such arcane battles to rise up as memorials to days gone by past glories or newfound radical resistance against established orders. Is it really important if one is a Cathilic, Protestant, Millenial generation x,er or a baby boomer, liberal, conservative, gay straight or Jewish, Christian Islamic or other? Why do people even bring up these lines in human sands and instigate tensions between peoples? Is it history repeating itself, is it society so enthralled with combative competitiveness between sects, parties, money making and gun weilding prowess that we humans prefer agumentative hate fests to community appreciation days, acceptance of others as they are??? Is this natural for citizens under duress of bankers barkers and press charlatans to bicker and fight incessantly while their commons are brutally raped and pillaged by fat cats and their bullshit spewing theoreticians ? It may well be that the common folks of common bonds under the quack boots of empire cant get our shit together to mount a couter reprisal to the divisionists among us and in this state, we just bicker as neros fiddle while our neighborhoods burn down along ethnic, generational and egotistical lines in our sands not even drawn by us, but obeyed none the less by our lives. How often do Catholics get along well with Protesatants, how often to Gays get along well with straights, liberals with conservative, baby boomers with millenials, crats with gop, crown royals with their peon subjects? The answer is most of the time but as we see those nice times of congeniality, cooperative common bonds of poverty and human need for love make us friends rather than competitors. Finian writes this up well, he decides not to throw wood on the fire and just decry the wrangling over old hurts and restates that Northern Ireland has troubles along political lines drawn on religious scripts, the religion is nothing, the politics is the problem, but look above, whom seeks to blame evry human toil trouble and burden on one thing alone when it is known, even in middle eastern strifes that reliion has nothing to do with the wars, it;s politicians exploiting writers bents of various sectarian divisions and sicking them on their quarry after pinching their hearts then blaming it on their religious counterparts. To my eyes, the worsening of these divisions isnt a natural thing at all, but a deviant strain of hatred encouraged by alpha dogs of their respective realms trying to aggregate power via fear of others under their domain names and auspicies, it isnt about people undying anomosity against each other, it;s about the instigators of such divisions remaining hidden behind the veils of their snarky and hatefully disgraced clubs/

Brian

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:33:29 +0000

The British have invaded every country in the world with the exception of ten. They then set about dividng the population on iether racial or religious lines and aggravate these divisions, to both justify their presence and to make it easy. Wherever the British have been, they have left division all around the world. They invented the Concentration camp and were engaged in a holocaust in Ireland that disappeared more than 6 and quarter million people. Irish republicans do not engage in sectarianism, which is the anthitesis of what the principles of republicanism is about. Republicanism was taken to Ireland after the French revolution by Protestant leaders who originally established it in Ireland, where it still has many Protestant members. Many if not most of active republicans are not in fact religious at all but British propaganda world wide like the BBC world service broadcast this lie world wide. The problem is British colonialism. Currently despite a Peace Process in British Occupied Ireland they are politically interning Irish people without trial. For details see www.releasemartincorey.com

David Kennedy

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:19:29 +0000

Having lived in Ireland for some years, I have no doubt that both religion and colonialism have much to do with the ongoing problems there. Catholicism forbids contraception and abortion. Non-Catholics don't like this imposition on their freedom. The British elite certainly follow the age-old policy of 'divide and rule' and so are happy to see internal disputes absorbing attention about which they can feel very superior, while exploiting both sides. Furthermore, positions become entrenched so that people cannot see beyond the brick walls erected in their minds. Catholicism has often allied itself with extreme political viewpoints, including imperialism and fascism. This too complicates the situation in Ireland. Rule by priests and brainwashing by religion is inimical to true democracy. These are problems not just for Ireland, but in many countries all around the world.

ALT-F4

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:43:02 +0000

"the majority up north want to stay British...." Why? So they can pay their taxes to the Queen?

ALT-F4

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:40:50 +0000

"To say it's religion that's the cause of this is woefully naive. It's naked imperialism and divide and conquer. " It's both. After all, the occupiers are not able to divide them along the lines of which football team they support, or whether they drink beer or stout, are they? Religion, on the other hand, is the poster-boy of divide-and-conquer, without which the overwhelming majority of conflicts and occupation would not even get off the ground.

proletariatprincess

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:36:15 +0000

I don't care anymore that the majority in the north want to stay British. I also wouldn't blame the ethnic Irish if they want to cleanse the pro Brits. Ireland needs to be one island country again and at long last. Whatever happens to the pro Brits left there is trivial compared to 800 years of British atrocities against the Irish people. You are wrong, Alex. The Troubles will indeed end, one way or the other when Ireland is united.

Alex

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 01:16:13 +0000

I guess when they ban IRA marches I might agree... As for the writer he seems to forget that the majority up north want to stay British.... The Irish I seem to remember wiped out the original indigenous people of Ireland. If it becomes one island do you think the trouble will stop or will the Irish ethnical cleanse the north of the pro-Brits?

Darryl

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:48:58 +0000

History of British Colonialism throughout the world has left many marks on the present and previous colonies, many of them have been divided as separate people. As long as the divided colonies do not make a serious effort to reach across the dividing line and respect the other half, the legacy of the British policies of divide and conquer will subjugate both sides. British mistreated the indigenous people of the colonies as worthless animals, while they robbed them of their natural resources. British destroyed the humanity within their colonies, to me it seems like the Orange Order itself is victim of destruction by the British Colonialism.

Michael W

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:18:54 +0000

It's about time that Ireland was one country; this has gone on too long. As for these marches, as the writer correctly states, they are the same as the klan, and as such should be banned. It is one thing to be proud of your country, but it is something completely different to be a nationalist, as this causes hatred and racism.

the_Albert

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:09:19 +0000

Either religion is the cause or religion is in the service of naked imperialism; either way it's a disgrace. But God allows it. Good old God, eh? Isn't she a champ?

The Other Joe

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:48:33 +0000

It is also religion. Religion is one of several excuses men use to justify wilful sadistic violence. They feel guilty enough about their lust for violence to at least try to state a plausible reason. In reality, some men simply thrive on destruction and mayhem.

Jigsaw

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:33:47 +0000

There is a serious madness in that society which is brought to the boil every July. The politicians now seem to be trying to be responsible, it's the ordinary people who are insane. The psychoses of a dead empire and the afterbirth of an incomplete settler colonisation program played out year after year.

elmysterio

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:06:34 +0000

To say it's religion that's the cause of this is woefully naive. It's naked imperialism and divide and conquer.

Tee

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:55:49 +0000

Fecking hate these marches, they march in Glasgow as well and are equally disgusting here...

Marabu

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:12:53 +0000

Aaaah, yes. Religion doing its thing once again.