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That British Family Of Border Jumpers Was Probably More Than They Seemed
Hot Air ^ | October 16, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 10/16/2019 8:51:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk

Sarah and John Conner were running from a T2. Unfortunately they were tracked by Skynet and captured.

Terminator: Dark Fate, in theaters Nov. 1st.

Hmm... Coincidence or Publicity Stunt...


21 posted on 10/16/2019 9:56:56 AM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Just kidding.)
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To: MHGinTN

Yup. And they have connections of kinship and criminality with the Anglo-Irish clans. In 2000, the British comic crime movie “Snatch” included Brad Pitt as “Mickey” O’Neil, a Traveller boxer who spoke in the near-incomprehensible dialect of a “pikey.” Jason Statham and Lennie James also appear.


22 posted on 10/16/2019 10:00:17 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: vpintheak

According to dailymail they were driving 105mph on the wrong side of the road!!


23 posted on 10/16/2019 10:06:18 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Robert DeLong

Look like pikeys to me. The way they dress, the fact they were doing something dodgy and the Irish surname pretty much confirms it.


24 posted on 10/16/2019 10:47:06 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Rockingham

I’ve seen it claimed that the “Irish Travelers” are descended from surviving remnants of whoever occupied the British Isles prior to the Celtic migration/invasion. The Celts didn’t expand into a vacuum, somebody was there! The article claimed their “dialects” (Shelta —Gammon (or Gamin) and Irish Traveler Cant. ). Is a shadow remnant of their language. They are certainly not Gypsy (Romani)! Its an interesting theory!


25 posted on 10/16/2019 10:58:04 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Hojczyk

Sure would be nice if HALF OF THE PEOPLE HERE, at least, would stop trusting the medicine on stories like this.


26 posted on 10/16/2019 11:00:58 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't te Don'tll anyone.)
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To: Reily
Offhand, I am inclined to think that the Travellers in Britain are descendants of the folk dispossessed by enclosures of common lands from the 13th Century onward, with the process reaching its culmination in the 19th Century. In essence, lands that were considered commonly owned and could be used by anyone were marked off by fences and walls for ownership and use by a single owner, usually a major local landowner. Any customary residents on such land were usually ordered off.

Many of the dispossessed then became itinerant farm laborers, servants, factory workers, or marginal, homeless urban residents. I can easily imagine the lifestyle and routine criminality then being justified as payback for the wrongs done their ancestors by enclosure. The odd Pikey dialect would be accounted by the mixed Celtic ancestry of the dispossessed and their substantial Irish and Scottish component.

Recent genetic studies indicate that Irish Travellers developed a distinct genetic profile around the time of the founding of the Ulster Plantation and mass dispossession of native Irish. The analysis established the Travellers as Irish and disproved any genetic connection to Roma Gypsies or to the pre-Celtic population.

27 posted on 10/16/2019 11:27:50 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Hojczyk; sinsofsolarempirefan; eyeamok; gcparent

Originally from Vancouver, I’ve driven thru that crossing since I turned 18. Even back in the 90’s, they had multiple cameras up at every car angle at EVERY 50 feet once you get into a half mile of the crossing.

Before 9/11, I would just show my drivers license, and they would waive you. Even when I turned 16. AFTER 9/11, everyone has to show every damn ID known to mankind and we were the enemy. Plus, once you get within half a mile, the feds take a pic of your car so they run the info asap before you get to the border dude.

That’s why I hate the rags after 9/11. They RUINED EVERYTHING.

and once again, the fences around that area are high so there is a 99% chance no ‘big animal/deer” or whatever nonsense could ever cross or hit a car. I LOL’d even when I read that silly explanation..


28 posted on 10/16/2019 11:29:24 AM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy it. I hope every lib die.)
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To: eyeamok
Actually when they go through customs in the US, they WILL SIGN a form and receive a 90 day tourist visa

Didn't you bother to read the article first? They tried that and were denied.

29 posted on 10/16/2019 11:29:56 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I read the article, they didn’t go through the proper channels and tried to sneak around to get in the USA. If they would have gotten on a plane in their Home Country the UK and flew here, they would have received a 90 day tourist visa from customs and their passports would be stamped showing so.

They tried to pull a fast one and got caught, now they sit in limbo, TOUGH!!


30 posted on 10/16/2019 11:40:55 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Rockingham

Probably a better theory!


31 posted on 10/16/2019 11:44:40 AM PDT by Reily
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To: eyeamok

They did go through the proper channels and got rejected. If they followed your advice they would have been turned away and had to fly back. That is why they were trying to get around customs by sneaking in.


32 posted on 10/16/2019 12:04:51 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Robert DeLong

The woman looks Arabic. And she lies like an Arab!


33 posted on 10/16/2019 12:26:29 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Rockingham

HQ is North Augusta, GA-— just over the SC border.


34 posted on 10/16/2019 12:59:00 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Florida after a hurricane is one of their favorite hunting grounds. An awful lot of people get taken in by fake business cards and sham contracts and make advance payments for work that never gets performed.


35 posted on 10/16/2019 1:32:07 PM PDT by Rockingham
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