Posted on 06/20/2019 6:46:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, asour final end, all actions both of men and States must be referred, We, the people of Éire, Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial, Gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation, And seeking to promote the common good, with due observance of Prudence,Justice and Charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured ,true social order attained, the unity of our country restored, and concord established with other nations, Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to ourselves this Constitution.
After centuries of sporadic fighting, the English took complete control of Ireland in 1603. The Irish, a resilient people, had absorbed the Roman, Viking and Norman invasions and brought them to a level of stability within the Irish nation and culture, but the English were a different thing. Worse than the Vikings, worse than the Normans, the English were totalitarians. Cromwell seized 80% of the land, drove off the native Irish people, and gave the land to pay his troops (in lieu of money) at the end of the English Civil War in 1649. For two and a half centuries, they dispossessed the Irish of every physical and cultural resource, suppressed their language, destroyed their sanctuaries, attempted to brutally rip out the roots of their religion. And through all this, although losing more than half their population through famine, disease and forced emigraion, the Irish persisted.
Then came (after a brutal civil war) Irish independence for the whole nation, at last. With the exception of the Six Counties of Ulster, they were at last free to develop their own culture, economy, and political institutions.
About 45 years later (1977) they voted to join the EU, which began the rapid reversal of all their faith-family-land-and-language dist4inctives. The approved ontraceotion, Then divorce,theb aboriton and buggery; seulatized all their Christian institutions of learning and healing; welcomed parading perverts onto their sreets; and are now participating in their own birthrate collapse, forced urbanization, and population replacement by non-Irish, non-Europeans, non-Christians.
Sui-genocide. Or geno-suicide.
It is awful, terrifying to behild.
What Britain couldn't to to hem by force in 260+ years, they have managed to do to themselves: theextinction of Ireland.
Please excuse the typos. I accidentally hit send before proofreading. :o(
The Irish have a reputation. It is mostly not a great one.
They can certainly do this. For them it can work but at a cost of freedom though not crippling. How far can you really go or need to go on an island?
Time for a revolution.
They are falling in lockstep with the rest of those loons:
The Guardian tells staff to avoid saying 'climate change,' use 'climate emergency, crisis or breakdown' instead
Just think the IRA fought so long to get independence. And then the socialists in their own government give the country away in a decade.
And this is what the left wants to do in America. That’s part of the Green New Deal. They want to get rid of air travel and eventually ban private vehicles. They want to get rid of the suburbs and small towns and force people to live in dense population centers. That’s their plan.
They want to make themselves Aristocrats, and everyone else low status peasants who obey orders from the aristocrat class.
Living in NJ, it is easy to see this in motion; the costs of maintaining private vehicles or owning a detached single-family home are prohibitive.
Those that want to cling to such antiquated notions often forego children to have the former, making the latter unnecessary. The trafficking of Third Worlders results from those decisions; without them, many of our schools would close (and our teachers’ unions would never allow that).
The cost of owning a home is very high (partly due to low supply compared to demand), and there is a huge disparity between wage increases and increases in property prices over the last 30 or so years. The cost of renting is totally insane. The economy is being propped up by foreign investment from mainly US companies. If we lose our low corporation tax laws (which the EU wants to take away) then many of these companies could go elsewhere.
Bringing in lots of carbon taxes and forcing people to buy expensive electric cars or hybrids will push more people here into poverty. We are much more vulnerable to recession than our politicians care to admit.
Sounds like Ireland, like the northeastern US, doesn’t want people owning cars (of any kind) or homes. You’ll use mass transit to get back and forth from your multi-unit worker hives.
Young people in the northeast here are increasingly accepting that (with urbanization) - and the many that don’t simply move to other states.
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