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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:49 PM Original message |
Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. that makes it to appear to be not a truce, but that the protestants won? |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. No one won, everyone lost. |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. The violence was mindless, but the Orange Order shouldn't be marching through Catholic areas... |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. But it's TRADITIONAL provocation. Anyway, why d'ye think they're called "Provos." |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. Catholics vs Protestants, Sunni vs Shia. Ain't religion grand? nt |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. But the funny thing is.....it has next to nothing to with religion. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Isn't there some degree of very old ethnic conflict, too? |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Yes. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. As to war over transubstantiation, stranger things have happened. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Heh, true enough: |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. What's that? |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. What a mess. |
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Bryn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. Irish people should be smarter and better than this crap |
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Maccagirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. In Leon Uris' book "Trinity" there's a quote |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. We're not backward! |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. Stop generalizing. What a shameful comment. |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. Eh, it's not so crazy up close. |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. more trouble, waring and fighting...over organized religion... |
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snake in the grass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. The nutjobs will learn... |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
9. Showing that "God says love thy neighbor" stuff. Classy |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. If the bloody Brits could get over the fact they're no longer an empire and |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. LOL! As an old time southern Nationalist I would love a United Ireland before i die... |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. it's beyond imperialism now |
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The abyss (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Well spoken! |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. I think you're right. At least, I hope you're right. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Um... then you're all for white, black and yellow people packing up... |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:43 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. It's not the same IMO. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Only because we annihilated OUR indigenous peoples. |
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The abyss (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
12. Playing the “Green card” |
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Jackeens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. No |
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The abyss (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. My error thanks for your insight. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. Oh no, the Cat. and Prot. Irish better not starting this shit again. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
23. Real IRA blamed for Belfast riots |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I figured as much. |
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