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To: 1010RD
. . . the St. Patrick’s Battalion, they couldn’t hang them.

Interesting link, but it appears that 50 odd members of the battalion, at three separate locations, did indeed dance the Tyburn Jig.

34 posted on 06/05/2014 7:01:04 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

I think that less than half were hanged, IIRC. The relevancy, though, isn’t the hanging, but the treachery and the religious/belief connection. Bergdahl and his family are pro-Taliban for reasons of common belief. The St. Patrick’s Battalion deserted to the enemy because of their shared beliefs.

We’re in a war of ideas. On the one hand with radical Islam and the Left, both of which share a fatalistic nihilism and elitism over all things human, and Burkean conservatives, like myself and you, I presume, who don’t fear progress, but want to build it on the foundation of the best proven traditions of human history.

The Left, along with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, et al, are interested in tearing all that down and rebuilding the world in their image and likeness. They are anti-Christ, anti-individual liberty and dignity, and they are the enemy. That we let them own our children’s minds for the formative 12-16 years of their lives is the worst failing in the history of Western Civilization.


55 posted on 06/05/2014 7:43:36 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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