On Friday, July 13, 2012 2:12:29 PM UTC-4, JTEM wrote:
> Who do you stand with, the oppressed or the oppressor?
> http://jtem.tumblr.com/post/27133287117
> The young man is Irish. He lives in Ireland. That tri-colored
> cloth over his left shoulder is the flag of the Irish
> Republic. Problem is, the part of Ireland that this photo was
> taken in is occupied by the British.
> The British partitioned Ireland at gun point, way back in
> 1921. From then on to be Irish living in Ireland was something
> of a crime -- an invitation to be repressed and brutalized by
> the British.
> This never ended. Even today, even right now an Irish
> person living in his ancestral Ireland is more likely to be
> victimized by the police than protected.
> Britain is the only western European nation to occupy a
> neighbor. Britain is the only so-called "Civilized" nation to
> operate death squads in protection of it's occupation.
> Britain lashes out against the Israeli occupation of the
> West Bank, yet not only have the British been occupying
> Ireland for far longer, but unlike the Israelis the British
> always were (and still are) the aggressors.
> End this. There's no excuses. Morons cry about Bush
> in Iraq or Obama using drones in Yemen, meanwhile
> the British have divided and brutally occupied Ireland
> for more than 130 and nobody notices....
Irish Protestants in the North overwhelmingly favor continued union with Britain. Why should their opinions count less than those of the Catholic minority?
