Re: Tylerguy et all Setanta747
In many ways I feel desperately sorry for you, You seem to feel it is normal in a democratic society to avoid discussing politics with your neighbours, for fear if you do things will get heated, You seem to believe that "aside for the troubles" what you call northern Ireland is a normal society. As if it is possible or indeed logical to divorce the troubles from daily life. When someone makes a point you feel under no obligation to answer it truthfully, nor show any respect to your fellow countrymen and women who fought for centuries to remove the English states boot from their backs. Did you never do basic British history whilst at school. You know Elisabeth the first, Cromwell, etc., etc. For you all life starts and finishes with partition, your for it so you are not obligated to justify it no matter that the majority of your fellow Irish men and women oppose it.
Instead you cheerfully throw statistic off the top of your head, which have no bases in fact and then when they are revealed as nonsense, you seem to feel a simple apology is all that is needed. You have done this on more than one occasion when posting to this list. Your arguments about the nationalist community never having received harsh treatment by the governing forces in the north is not only silly but insulting to your neighbours and extremely provocative in the most childish way. Im tempted to say grow up, but I fear you will still be behaving in the same mean spirited and bitter manner when your old and grey. And this is what makes me feel sorry for you most of all.
Mick |