Interesting...I’d have never considered the Icelandic connection. Tnanks for that tidbit from that frigid island.
What The FALCON Party needs is Kris Kobach to write their Immigration Statement as he did Fred’s.
If you are interested to hear about my partie´s policies you can f.e. see the results of it in a thread I was creating just now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973110/posts
Here is then the wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Party_%28Iceland%29
Yeah, Pissant, I checked the page of the Falcon party it shows a picture of a living falcon, but no real logo. They would need one to be succesful I would guess. But isn´t it hopeless to have a third party that in fact doesn´t just spoil their agenda in a first past the post system like yours?
Wouldn´t a pressure group be more effective, as it would of course be just as much hackle to create, but it could see actual results?
We have a proportional list system, and we have thus 4-5 different parties (63 parliment seats in one chamber), one big on the right (mine) and several smaller on the centre and left. Sadly it seems one of those is actually gaining on us, the social-democrats.
TruthConquers, it is very likely, as the west-icelanders used the falcon much, and actually still after we took up another for the country with the semi-independence of 1918, and subsequently a new one based on that when we came a republic. One part of that is though considered an eagle OR a falcon.
But it could also be the Raven, wich has old mythological significance in Viking religion and was much used.
Where you raised up in an icelandic environment, culturally and linguistically? How big portion of your ancestors (and descendants) are icelandic?
Talarðu íslensku?
Iceland is not a fridged place. There is lots of green veg. and the people get more rain in the winter then snow. The snow is measured in feet in the mountains. A great place to camp if your into primitive. And expensive.
just my thoughts