Re: Just As True Today As It Was In 1779

"William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "conwaycaine" <conwaycaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> And devastated the Irish countryside.
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> And pacified Ireland for two hundred years.

By pacification, you mean the subjugation of an entire people.
Yep, you Brits did go about the would, pacifying as you went.
(And you fellows weere there a bit longer than two hundred years. In fact,

you still infest the Six Counties)

> You've got to remember who you're dealing with.
> If they couldn't take a joke they shouldn't have started making trouble.

It's ever so much easier when the victim offers no resistence......

> What exactly did they expect?  Someone to wander over and say 'Now look 
> chaps,  this just isn't cricket you know'

So the thought of an independent Ireland wasn't "Cricket"?
Oh that would go over well in Dublin.