To: ChEng
Most of these laws were put in place to counter the great Irish ability to assimilate all comers We are the Irish. Lower your shields. Power down your weapons. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Seriously, you are right - Ireland is the original melting-pot!!
12 posted on
03/13/2006 1:31:36 PM PST by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
The revision programme will see the removal of ancient acts banning the Gaelic language, prohibiting the English from fraternising with the locals and preventing Jews from owning armour.Old laws sound so strange to us!
14 posted on
03/13/2006 1:42:14 PM PST by
fanfan
( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
We are the Irish. Lower your shields. Power down your weapons. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. LOL
The Irish weren't breaking any ground by assimilating Cromwell's soldiers. They had by and large done the same thing with Tudor, Norman and Viking conquerors. There is a lesson there too about a culture that decides that its members are too good to do some sorts of work, and allows (or forces) members of another culture to be their drawers of water and hewers of wood.
In any event this doesn't strike me as any blow for Irish freedom, but as empty political grandstanding.
18 posted on
03/13/2006 3:32:16 PM PST by
Pilsner
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