[PistolPaknMama]

A majority of the residents of Northen Ireland wish to remain in the UK, and that should be an end of it.

The majority of the American colonists wished to remain a part of Great Britain at the outbreak of the first civil war. We won our independence in spite of them. Causes are won by active minorities. One has to look only at the pro homosexual movement to understand that.

Besides, majority rule in the antitheses of how we do things in the USA. We are a democratic republic and have an electoral college so that the majority doesn't rule.

[quidnunc]

PistolPaknMama wrote: (A majority of the residents of Northen Ireland wish to remain in the UK, and that should be an end of it.) The majority of the American colonists wished to remain a part of Great Britain at the outbreak of the first civil war. We won our independence in spite of them. Causes are won by active minorities. One has to look only at the pro homosexual movement to understand that.Besides, majority rule in the antitheses of how we do things in the USA. We are a democratic republic and have an electoral college so that the majority doesn't rule.

You're pro-terrorist then, if so why don't you just come out and say so?

[elhombrelibre]

The majority of Cubans want to be free. A violent minority wants them to be communists. Using your theory, and I know you're playing the devil's advocate (as if he needs help), Cubans deserve Castro. And as for comparing the US struggle with Britain in 1176, it ignores the fact that there is an Ireland that's free of Britain. And it is at its wits end with today's IRA. The Americans who led to the US to Independence have nothing philosophically in common with the IRA.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Besides, majority rule in the antitheses of how we do things in the USA. We are a democratic republic and have an electoral college so that the majority doesn't rule.

Mama,

Have you been drinking again?