You think the IRA is about keeping Ireland free of the royals? LMFAO!!

It was about in fighting between the Irish themselves more so than it was ever aimed at the UK govt.

andyh wrote:
Are you saying my youtube education of Ireland is inaccurate?

RealAmerican wrote:
When you graduated from YTU, did you major in Theory of Liking , Channel Engineering or Comments Analysis ?

RealAmerican wrote: It's kinda looking like this at the moment RA. .....

RealAmerican wrote:
Hell yes.
While the irish supposedly 'hate' the brits they have been nothing but progressively voting with the same policies as the brits with their own government and even welcomed the queen in large numbers recently..I know I was there!
I was the only guy giving the royals the bird, the irish were all smiling and waving ffs lol!

When it comes to the troubles in Ireland, forget what the americans on youtube think...they haven't a bloody clue whats been going on.

andyh wrote:
I had seen a bunch of videos posted in threads over at DIF that made me think otherwise.

They gave me the impression the Irish are the only people across the Atlantic to stand against the Royal Sceptre.

That just goes to show how little I understand about what's going on over there.

There is alot more Irish people in the US then the UK and Ireland.

Some people over here believe the Royals had JFK killed because he wanted to make the UK free.

I thought these kids in all the videos wanted freedom from the Monarchy also.

They are indeed standing against 'something' but its not the 'royal sceptre'.

There just as large a crowd in n.ireland who are happy with being under british rule, indeed they had a vote on it some time back and it was quite clear.

I'll say this...some people like violence simply for the sakes of violence. Most of them have not a clue about any of the stuff we discuss here nor for that matter do they even give a shit.

Its a very complicated and long long story for sure.

andyh wrote:
Andy I know your busy but when you get some time can you explain to me what's going on over there.

Are the cops real soft in Ireland? (Because this video kinda blew my mind)

We certainly don't have kids in America with enough heart to back down cops like this...WTF?

This summer I watched a handful of movies about the IRA on Netflix from the 80's & 90's.

The final scene in one of the movies the queen who looks alot younger is sitting on the throne with her royal crown and sceptre while having some kind of meeting in parliament with all the people there. Then the Irish hero sneaks in and right before the assassination British intelligence saves the day...typical...

RealAmerican wrote:
Sounds more like Guy Fawkes than the IRA.

andyh wrote:
Im going to look in my Netflix que and figure out which movie that was.

Queen Elizabeth II was actually in the movie wearing her Royal crown, she was not played by an actress.

Who is guy Fawkes i'm going to google search him right now.

RealAmerican wrote:
I said it deadpan (well as deadpan as you can make it in text on a forum) :p

lol!

Well, you'll laugh when you find out who guy fawkes was anyway.

RealAmerican wrote:
Ok I just looked the movie up on Netflix, It's called "Hennessy" from (1975)

movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Hennessy/70101007?locale=en-US

"Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England."

It is as much about religion as it is about freeing Ireland. Protestant against Catholic. In very much the same way as how the american civil war was stated to be about slavery but was in reality about so much more. So to was the "troubles" about sectarian violence and the settling of feuds as much as independence. Plus money of course.....it is always about the money

andyh wrote:
Hey Andy

May I first say that I have admired your posts on a certain other site , mainly because of the well balanced view you gave and were clued up on a lot of the things you posted on , but.........

I find your post in this thread staggering

You were the only one in Ireland giving the queen the bird ? As I say staggering .

Voting ? What other option do these people have , these people are tired , their country has been ripped apart and ravaged by a war started by the brits . lets just hope that certain people in the political game are aiming to get into the belly of the beast and dismantle them with their own double speak and so called democratic laws .

I know you live on the outskirts of Cork (or did) but you really don't seem to grasp it , never mind the Americans , Cork is a Republican stronghold in the south , no if , buts or maybe's , and believe me Cork and it's republican people are not in a minority , it is by far the other way about , where what you may have witnessed some flag waiving twats , these people are in the most miniscule of minorities on that isle . There are many people who will march in Ireland against brittish rule and it's monarchy , what the people of Ireland want is a fair crack at the whip and not be treated like second class citizens in their own country like they have been through the ages , the tide is turning , slowly , but it's turning .

Maybe you and some others here should take the youtube trip and find out some stuff about Irish history , and while your there look up the 32csm , maybe you'll learn something .

As for the heading of this thread about Gaddafi , he may well have been killed for this reason , it certainly didn't do him any favours in the mortality stakes , but I'm sure there were many other factors leading to his sad death , so good on you RealAmerican , keep researching about Ireland , you will find that the deeper you look you will see that 99% of the atrocities that happened through the troubles period will have the blood stained hand print of the security services (who are led by the brittish monarchy). Scumbags , one and all.

Saoirse

RealAmerican wrote:
This video is just pure brit propaganda .

Not even 3 mins into it they are talking about 9/11 , pure fucking pathetic .

and one of the best laughs is right at the start where they use footage from a fuking video game to descript the gunning down of a helicopter , this guy McCue is a complete and utter joke