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Dáithí
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Date Posted: 22:15:18 10/10/01 Wed
In reply to:
V
's message, "Re: loyalists" on 21:24:45 10/10/01 Wed
Once again V you don't have Ulster! Ulster is 9 not 6 counties...
>So the British are the problem are they? How
>completely and utterly can you fail to grasp the
>situation? The Northern Irish conflict is about
>NATIONALITY, the very fact it is taking place is
>because Northern Ireland includes ONE MILLION people
>whose self-declared and internationally-recognised
>nationality is BRITISH. The British are not an
>occupying force, they are the hundreds of thousands of
>people whose families have lived in NI longer than the
>US has been in existence - generation after
>generation.
>
>As for the Protestant minority in the Republic, I
>think you will find that it has shrunk from some 10%
>of the population when the state was formed in 1921,
>to just 2 or 3% today. Is it any wonder we want to
>remain British, part of a nation that defends the
>rights of all, and accepts refugees and other
>immigrants much more freely than modern Ireland (if
>you don't believe me read the established and
>respected Irish broadsheet press eg Irish Times, Irish
>Independent, which is full of criticism of the Irish
>lack of sympahy with "oppressed" peoples).
>
>Ireland is not some blemish-free idyll, it represents
>a multitude of horrors to Ulster's 1m
>Unionists/Protestants. Why else would we be so
>implacably opposed to Irish Unification. Think about
>it, we have a multitude of valid reasons.
>
>ULSTER IS BRITISH, NO SURRENDER!
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