Breaking the socialist bank
January 17th, 2007
Well, I mean, why the hell not?
Not to even mention that the Brits are in some measure to blame for inflicting the World’s Most Monstrous Tyranny (the USA, I mean) on the world’s Oppressed Innocents™.
Seriously, be sure to read the Facts page. It’s pretty good. And truth to tell, since American foreign policy for decades now has mostly been commandeered by the dire necessity of cleaning up — or at least somehow triaging — messes made by the British and French long ago, well, this stuff is pretty hard to argue with. And it provides some small measure of grim satisfaction to those of us who tired long ago of being smarmily lectured on the evils of American Imperialism by arrogant English twits who, in turn, don’t seem much bothered by the Crown still keeping the old iron thumb squarely pressed on the Irish jugular.
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I also have one other quibble, didn't we invent the machine gun? They can try to claim Hiram Maxim, , but he's ours. He was born in Maine and didn't become a naturalized Brit until long after he had invented the machine gun.
Here is what I found interesting: Under the header of "Who is behind the International Coalition for British Reparations (ICBR)?" it says:
Allow me to translate:
"Lay historian": Someone who doesn't know shit about History but has read a few books and watched a few TV programs and fancies himself an "historian."
"founder of a successful multinational marketing company" = Con artist.
And Mike: Ireland has been a free and independent country since 1922. The six counties of Northern Ireland are overwhelmingly English in ethnicity and have no desire to join the Republic. That this is a product of past imperialism is irrelevant, unless of course you think all of us whiteys should vacate the land once occupied by the Cherokees, Arapahoes and all the other native tribes.
This whole "reparations" talk is nonsense anyway. There is not a nation, ethnic group, or gaggle of individuals in the world who cannot point to some historic "injustice" somewhere in their past. So what?
Precisely. I don't know whether the Brit-reparations guy's intent was/is satirical or not, but mine sure was. I suspect his is too. Or at least I hope so.