From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 10:25:58 MDT
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:08:27PM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> As for myself, a Catholic Scottish American whose family got relocated to Nova
> Scotia from the Gordon's Highlands, I've got little or no sympathies for the
> headaches the Protestant British have brought on themselves, while at the same
> time I have no sympathies for the marxist ideology of most IRA members. Frankly
> you deserve each other.
Who is this "you" you're talking about, white man? I'm a Jewish Brit of
Polish descent who lives in Scotland and votes for Scottish independence
at every opportunity.
And if you'd bothered reading up on the field you might have come across
the interesting statistic that something like 85% of the GB population
favours pulling the GB out of NI and letting the buggers kill each
other ... stereotyping people by attributing the foreign policy of their
government to them as personal opinion isn't exactly a good way of figuring
out what's going on anywhere, is it? Or would you like me to blame you
for Janet Reno's actions on the grounds that, being American, you must
logically support her?
-- Charlie
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