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2. What's your beef with St. Patrick's Day?
fucking roman catholics from england. does anyone even know the
real story about all of that? there were no snakes. stop with the snakes.
patrick was a brit that was slaved by the romans, sent to ireland to
watch sheep and went insane. on the other hand, he did start a
movement of monks that did save most written language. they
were irish monks.
later in the 1800s the irish americans did use the holiday to show
some rights, but the press would illustrate them later as drunks
and monkeys. the irish have always been treated as inferiors and
discriminated against. they were slaved all the way into the 1700s.
There are records of irish sold as slaves in 1664 to the french ,
and english ships which made a stop in ireland in route to the
americas, typically had a cargo of irish to sell on into the 18th century.
few people today realize that from 1600 to 1699, far more irish were sold
as slaves than africans. all the this started really with patrick bringing
the catholic religion to ireland.
i see concerts and stickers everywhere that say ?free tibet? but i
really dont see that many that say ?free ireland?. the idea of having
a holiday to celebrate the beginning of the downfall of an entire
country, because they were convinced that christianity and being
passive was the correct way... ya... not really into it. when you raise
your glass and wear green, remember that ireland is still not free.
never forget bobby sands.
i might go back to this one again.
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-sean
skype: sean.a.christian
sean @ revolutionforce.com
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