Posted on 05/24/2014 6:19:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Sinn Féin has emerged as the biggest party in Northern Ireland following the local government elections—but the DUP has claimed the greater number of council seats.
The republican party claimed 24.1% of all first preference votes with the DUP on 23.1%.
Both parties, however, saw their share of the vote slip with the DUP down by 4.1% and Sinn Féin marginally down by 0.7%. …
(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...
You really are upside down in your thinking, which smacks of French Revolutionism, the real spark that gave birth to Marxism—and that’s the real problem with Europe today rather than the continued existence of nobility.
Let me tell you that if Sinn Féin were to accede to real power on the island the Romans called Hibernia, it will be an incredible debacle, very possibly leading to a bloodbath. And they will be in virtual vassalage to a certain outside power far more than they currently are. The EU will assure that neither Britannia nor Hibernia ever be separated from each other politically.
Were you aware that it was the papacy that actually pushed Ireland and England together politically in the twelfth century? Pope Alexander III gave Henry II the official lordship of Ireland, and his authority was over a predecessor of the European Union.
Leading to a bloodbath? What then would you call what has been happening there in the last 100 years, ‘dah stwuggle’?
I am an American. I hate monarchies, and Communism both, equally and fairly, because they BOTH subjugate the individual.
As far as ‘dah papuhcy’ goes, ‘D’ey can go d’at t’ing w’id d’at t’ing like d’at guv’ner feller did in Blazin’ Saddles’.
Rome ain’t America, ain’t never been America, ain’t never gonna be America, so that is somethin’ I don’t bother with.
does the rest of Ireland like Sinn Fein at all?
Americans do not hate monarchies, especially constitutional monarchies. They do not acquiesce to being ruled by them, but they do not hate them—that’s a tenet of French-style revolutionaries and left-wingers like I mentioned before. So just how do you equate your beliefs with US conservatism?
I once lived in Ireland, so I perhaps have a better sense of what’s going on there than you do. Stop listening to the left-wing propaganda out of there. Sinn Féin are a left-wing gang that have no good designs on Ireland or anywhere else; they are indeed the inspiration for things like the African National Congress/Umkhonto we Sizwe.
It’s not enough to say “Rome ain’t America”, because the descendants of that very Rome in question are affecting America even today; they affected the US strongly in two world wars, and what with currently having a president that finds himself “extraordinarily impressed with European leadership”, we essentially have an aspect of that Rome in power in “America” (why do you not say “the USA”?)
Sinn Fein is the political arm of the IRA, the terrorists. They deny it, of course.
I am neither conservative, nor liberal.
I am a Libertarian, and an American disabled military veteran.
I talk ‘American’, not ‘unidas estados’, or, as translated from Russian, ‘Union of States of America’.
Whenever I mention my country, it is America.
When ever I mention my heritage, it is American, of which I’m half Mojave.
When I talk of THE Flag, it is the American flag.
When I talk about my fellow beings (including you), within the Continental 48, I call them Americans.
When I worked with Soviet refugees, THEY said America.
When I worked with Thai nationals, THEY said America.
Lastly, as an American, there is nobody on the face of this Earth, that I bow to, man, woman, or queer. I am my own autonomy.
LOL!
olog-hai wrote ‘lol’ as his last comment.
I am grateful that i can make folks laugh, in this unsettling time.
And, as most comedians dictate, I am leaving your comments, ‘on the high note’.
Enjoy your life, as i will mine.
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