Ireland – a Polish home from home

Radio Polonia ^ | 16.08.2006 | Iwona Lajmen

[snippy_about_it]

On the Irish question I believe Ireland should be allowed to remain independent. I understand Northern Ireland citizens want to remain with Britain. I equate it with our own history of fighting for independence from Britain. Yes, people on both sides were killed, war is hell. I also believe when we have to fight again, innocents will suffer as they do in all battles.

[snippy_about_it]

I think in the early days yes.

[snippy_about_it]

Also, I don't mean to post and run but I think you get my drift and I don't spend that much time here lately, busy moving and all but I wanted to make sure vox_pl wasn't maligned as he is a dear friend we appreciate dropping in from Poland. We don't spend enough time these days on our own threads so I'll just say ado now that I see you all understand eachother better. It's easy to get riled up but we must remember we all see things differently and that's okay. Play nice. :-)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Well then, there is a pro-Union majority in NI, therefore violence against majority rule cannot be justified.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That was not name calling.

Poland was communist for a very long time and everything they taught in schools was vetted by them.

Do you deny that?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ok, it gets the better of me at times.

No problem. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Yes, but should there even be an NI?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Any member of the IRA is a terrorist.

[snippy_about_it]

No but the Poles taught their young. They weren't blindly led by the government schools, kind of like here in the US. Some of us teach our children the truth, not just what the government school books say. It was rude of you to accuse him of having communist masters after all they went through to gain back their independence.

[snippy_about_it]

Hey, my grandparents emmigrated from Southern Ireland. My father-in-law fought in the Warsaw uprising in 1944. You can see we all have our reasons. No problem.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's a solemn agreement between the UK and Eire dating from the Treaty of 1921, it has to be respected until the demographics of NI change in favour of unification with southern Ireland - and, as it happens, the Catholic population is growing faster that the Protestant population.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

:)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You must be out of you mind! Me a sympathiser of terrorists or communist?! ROTFL!

Then maybe you don't know who you are defending. The IRA has a very good propaganda machine.

But they are communist terrorists who train other communist terrorist groups how to kill more effectively.

I can supply you with other links about their activities if you like. These are not guys like you admire in Polish history. They are brutal thugs who drag innocent women from their houses and murder them in cold blood.

There is no excuse for that. I think we can agree.

[wtc911]

You are a liar.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

How do you make that out??

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No but the Poles taught their young

Polish history, yes but do you really think they taught Irish history in detail?

Most parents here in the US wouldn't be able to do that and many of them are of Irish decent themselves.

It was rude of you to accuse him of having communist masters after all they went through to gain back their independence.

It was a statement of fact. He did have communist masters.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Very clear thank you! :-)

You would not believe the number of people who defend them though. I can't understand it but there it is.

Some of them are even in Congress to our shame.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Answer the question, don't post an attack on me and then run, why do you think I'm a liar??

You are on my ping list, you seen all the threads I posted about the evil nature of the IRA, why do you think I'm a liar??