RE: License to....

[c a l i b a n <caliban@sharon.net>]

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Phil Payne wrote:

:|
:|> The British (and in their day, the Empire's allies) can take the
:|> blame for events ranging from imperial adventures around the globe to N.
:|> Ireland. Who shall escape calumny?
:|
:|I might grant you Hamburg, Dresden and many earlier atrocities.
:|
:|But to suggest that "the British" are "responsible" for Northern
:|Ireland's problems requires a little rewriting of history.   The
:|greatest single problem Ireland has is that too many people refuse to
:|forget what happened three hundred and more years ago.

	those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

	the atrocities the british have, over the centuries, 
	committed against the irish are far, far to great for
	me (that's right, "mullin", from drogheda) to ever forget.
	this does not much influence my daily life, but i certainly
	will not "forget" that my ancestors were executed for 
	speaking in their native tongue.

	never, never "forget".

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