Posted on 05/26/2016 4:43:54 PM PDT by traumer
Canada's ambassador to Ireland, the man hailed as a hero for shooting Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau after he stormed Parliament Hill in 2014, tackled a protester at a ceremony in Dublin Thursday morning.
Kevin Vickers, the former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms, was at the event commemorating the 100 British soldiers who died during the Easter Rising, also called the Easter Rebellion, when Irish republicans tried to overthrow British control of the country by force.
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Trump should hire him to his personal detail !
Tough old bird to be 60 years old.
Somehow I sincerely doubt that a Canadian ambassador to Ireland has any interest at all in being a businessman’s bodyguard. I also doubt the SS would hire a man of his age for any reason at all.
Euro-peons aren’t used to anyone fighting back against the leftists.
I think he should leave policing, in Ireland, to the Irish police. They can handle the situation.
Why the heck is this Canadian upset with a Irishman in Ireland celebrating the Rebellion that led to Irish freedom from the Brits who treated them like Slaves !
Moron .
But it tells us what the Canadian elite think of Irish independence .
Not pretty .
The post says it was a private event to which the protestor was not invited.
With suicide bombers a constant danger the lack of a weapon in the hand is hardly assurance of peaceful intent.
Vickers acted while others watched. His training kicked in.
You need to read up on how the British treated the Irish like slaves for hundreds of years and the Easter Rebellion was the day the Irish fought for freedom from British tyranny .
The Irish finally fought back against hundreds of years horrendous abuse by Great Britain .
The Irishmen was not a leftist .He was reminding all the Brits that it was fight for freedom and the clown from Canada showed he was a Brit not a Canadian !
Did ya notice the honor guard or whatever never looked anywhere but straight ahead? No wonder they get shot at their posts or get their heads cut off.
Read up on how the Brits enslaved Ireland and murdered millions and get back to me about how a tee shirt worn by a Irish citizen is so awful.
Did you ever watch British TV until recently and hear the Brits mocked and trashed the Irish for laughs?
The English executed all those who took over the buildings in Dublin during the Rising.
Come to think of it, didn’t our former head of the Department of Justice take over a building at Columbia. Was he arrested?
Here’s to the Boys of Kilmichael!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK1jo4HuWWY
Evidently the police did NOTHING.....
First the Irish terrorists got their guns from the Kaiser during War War I. Then they had the support of the gangsters in Boston. Finally, in the 1960s, the Official IRA was Marxist.
Trumps personal security may be unarmed and he has to rely on the SS. given their track record and observations i would not rely on their performance for my personal protection.
Moron .
But it tells us what the Canadian elite think of Irish independence .
Not pretty .>> canadian flag tells it all.
when Irish republicans tried to overthrow British control of the country by force.
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Tried? This is what turned the tide to a free Ireland.
I have asked this elsewhere but haven’t got an answer, perhaps you can help.
Given that the Easter Rising was entirely an internal matter of the then United Kingdom, with no involvement by imperial or dominion troops (unlike the Boer War for example), why on earth was the Canadian ambassador to Dublin attending?
It really does appear like the Canadians are “taking sides” in a battle that was fought between British troops and Irish rebels and in which Canada played no role whatsoever.
Vickers was representing Canada at the ceremony as a guest of the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charles Flanagan.
Held at Grangegorman Military Cemetery in Dublin, Thursday’s ceremony was intended to commemorate the approximately 125 British soldiers who lost their lives while putting down the 1916 Easter Rising, a failed bid at Irish independence that hoped to capitalize on Britain being distracted by the First World War. At the time, the British soldiers (many of whom were Irish-born) had the majority support of the Irish populace, even if the uprising they quashed soon spurred enough nationalist sentiment to forge the Republic of Ireland that stands today. - National Post
OK that answers that question, he was invited by the Irish foreign minister, thank you, although one then has to ask why he was invited and why he felt the need to accept an invitation to an event that is quite controversial and divisive.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
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