Come on guys, the potati famine was a long time ago.
Ummm sure the Famine (an outright, planned genocide of the Irish people) is over, but if you had any knowledge of the VERY not-so-distant past, you would understand what was happening. These Nationalists who were attacking the soldiers have suffered years, no, decades!, of abuse by these same men! People are repulsed by the actions of the IRA but if they would look at the numbers, hundreds more Catholic Nationalists have been murdered by the British military and civilians!
If you would know about Bloody Sunday , you would think differently! These people attacking the police have heard and endured OUTRIGHT DISCRIMINATION for years!
Everytime a Loyalist is hurt, the world goes up in arms and demands the Republicans be brought to justice! Ha! That is only because we live in a world dominated by two powers: Britain and America (the latter a true extension of the former). Both are dominated by a Protestant Puritanism mentality. No one hears, cares or worries about the discrimination and outright abuse of Catholics, Nationalists or Irish in either of these nations. It has actually become a very popular and acceptable sport to discriminate against all three these days (in both coutnries!!!)
Ireland for the Irish!
The rather sinister joke "Innocent until proven Irish."
P.S.: I really do usually try to promote peace. I am an American Catholic. I have many Protestant friends and we get along fine. There is some tension occaisionally, but nothing much. But, as a Catholic, I have been subected to abuses that are downright dim-witted and vicious. I'm tired of hearing about the "priest scandals"!!! My priest is great! He wouldn't hurt a fly! If you look at the statistics (numbers that the media dont want you to know) the same number (in ratio [since there are more Catholics]) of religious of non-Catholics are accused of abuse every year! You don't hear about that do you! It's become a witch hunt!
This last message really ticked me off. The Famine is really irrelevant in these time...a HORRENDOUS memory, but irrelevant. People need to step back and look at the facts. Yes! BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY OF TERRIBLE CRIMES! But it's too bad that the Loyalists have the backing of the ENTIRE society of the West while we Catholics can only whisper our support to our Irish brothers for fear of being labeled as bigots and inciters of violence! God save the Pope!
And if this article can't be posted, then THAT is outright discrimination! I've only spoken about things from MY point of view. To silence them would be outright prejudice. But I'm Catholic...so who cares?