Posted on 09/23/2016 8:30:47 PM PDT by OneVike
Just got around to listening to Grada - John Riley song.
Excellent ! Thx for the nudge...
Did some more reading on the red haired blue eyed Mexicas of today.
apparently many of the Irish stayed after the Mexican war and raised families. Also every year in Sept there are still celebrations in some towns for John Riley’s Brigade.
It is certainly putting forth a point of view forcefully but for you to dismiss it as propaganda you would have to prove it was factually inaccurate.
Are there points that have been made which are erroneous?
As for Cromwell, there is much to be said in his favour, the victory of parliament over the king was a major stepping point in the struggle for democracy over arbitrary rule around the world, including the US.
But as the man himself said, we must look at him warts and all. The execution of the king was legally dubious, but beyond that Cromwell’s rule was in simple fact a totalitarian military dictatorship. Having overthrown the king he merely set himself up as tyrant in his place.
When it comes to Ireland not even the most slavish of follower of Cromwell has ever done anything other than to simply concede that the man was a genocidal mass murderer, who treated the Irish as sub-humans to be killed or banished without mercy.
Well, it would be hard to do otherwise as Cromwell freely admitted that was exactly how he treated the Irish, and had no shame about doing so believing he was carrying out God’s work, although the point where Christ instructed his followers to murder and enslave helpless men, women and children seems not to be mentioned in any Bible I ever read.
I’ve seen no proof that hundreds of thousands of Irish were sent to the New World as chattel slavery
And I’d wager it’s fairly well assumed here I’m pretty much alt right sympathetic when it comes to white nationalism or whatever standing up for being a white traditionalist means today
There are writers like Derbyshire and Taylor and Sailor I agree with pretty much on this precise topic but not everything especially Taylor that we are under assault so I’m not disagreeing because I think it erodes the demigod nature of tropical Africans and their annointment as supreme victims of white enslavers
I just don’t buy it even though O Sullivan is one of the quads of my DNA helix
My views on Oliver is he was incredible militarily considering but I would have been a Royalist as a southerner ...likely
And he was awful to the Irish primarily due to his hatred of Rome
And beheading Sir Alec Guiness.....as unforgivable
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