I presume you are talking about the physical assaults on the Dromid Pearse players by the Tyrone scum?
Just a short extract from the report:
Hope they are banned and thrown out of the competition!Thomas Curran played the last six minutes of the first-half and was concussed but I had no idea about that. He was inside in the dressing-room at half-time and telling his brother to get the milk out of the fridge. The man thought he was at home in Dromid, he didn’t know where he was at all.
"One of our substitutes, Micheal O’Shea, saw Thomas getting hit and went in to help him. He reckoned if he didn’t, they would have killed him. Then there was five of them who got Denis Shine on the ground as well. They fractured his cheekbone, ripped the jersey off him and drove the boot into his back. His back is destroyed, he could barely move yesterday. They were also grabbing the testicles of our players before the match."
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Gaddaf supporters are really hitting youtube hard these days. There's a heap of these videos floating round.
I gave up Aphorisms, because continually, and despite the fact that I conceded time and again that the USA is neither uniformly good nor that it has not has an unblemished history you continued to do what you're doing again here; rehashing episodes from history that I have never tried to defend.
Well this is wrong. Where is the USA "stopping" democracy in any of these places? Do you think they would not like to see Saudi Arabia become like switzerland tomorrow? I would wager, they would like that very much indeed. Can they make that happen? No.
Even if America was imperialist (I don't agree that it is) it still gives the world most of the scientific, technological and life improving advancements to the world. You might ponder that, the next time you drive to the airport to fly somewhere having booked your ticket using a computer on the internet, or the next time a loved one is healed in hospital. By the way, you are in an infintesimally small minority in placing america above libya in terms of tyranny. If you are in any doubt, I invite you to compare the number of libyans living in the USA with the number of americans living in Libya. Where parents choose to bring up their children, given a choice, is as about as reliable an indicator of what people really feel about a place as one can get.
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Nonsense, I gave thorough replies to your questions and statement's, particularly that idiotic video about Hitchen's. The fact I threw in other crimes about American foreign policy was hardly a reason to ignore what I was saying.I gave up Aphorisms, because continually, and despite the fact that I conceded time and again that the USA is neither uniformly good nor that it has not has an unblemished history you continued to do what you're doing again here; rehashing episodes from history that I have never tried to defend.
ARE YOU JOKING? Make it like Switzerland? That is comical. That would mean even higher oil prices for the American's, lol. The overthrow of the Iranian democracy in 1953 was solely to do with the fact that the Iranian's tried to nationalize their resources. And then we all know what happened.Well this is wrong. Where is the USA "stopping" democracy in any of these places? Do you think they would not like to see Saudi Arabia become like switzerland tomorrow? I would wager, they would like that very much indeed. Can they make that happen? No.
But even on your point: "Can they make that happen?" No, they can't. Because it is a different world over there and they are unlikely to ever accept out way of life and culture. But Bin Laden talked all about this. He basically said Muslim's don't drink oil or shower in it, we just want to sell our oil at a reasonable market price. Again, as I said in the other thread, what Bin Laden had in store for the middle east wasn't as brutal as what the Saudi'a are now. The Saudi's are the most malign dictatorship in the middle east and basically the same as the Taliban.
Also, you recently started a thread about the Taliban being savages. Fair enough, I agree. But why does America back up a similar form of Islamic fundamentalism? Even though the people of Saudi Arabia have been protesting to get rid of the Monarch, the American's have not only supported the Saudi's in their killing of domestic protesters, but supported their invasion of Bahrain killing even more innocent people protesting.
I am baffled that you actually think the American's want a democratic, secular government controlling oil in the middle east. They only want government's that serve them or will be easy to control. That is why I keep harping on about Latin America and other places. It reinstates the points that America has no interest in spreading democracy. Go right back to the Founding Fathers or sentiment's around the time of the invasion of Mexico, Cuba, Philippines, etc. It is all basically "we're spreading democracy to civilize these parts of the world and Christianize them." Yes, there are a plethora of quotes such as that. Even former president's saying that God told him to take the Philippines. Where have we heard of a U.S President saying God told him to go to war before?
I have already stated my admiration for the Declaration of Independence and the system of government in the states. I am just against their foreign policy. A bit like the rich Muslims who were surveyed by the Wall Street Journal after 9/11.Even if America was imperialist (I don't agree that it is) it still gives the world most of the scientific, technological and life improving advancements to the world.
Well, I would call exterminating the Indian Race for land and annexing countries into the Union, imperialism.
The Nazi's invented the first stealth bomber and had it nearly ready to fly during WW2. Your point?ou might ponder that, the next time you drive to the airport to fly somewhere having booked your ticket using a computer on the internet, or the next time a loved one is healed in hospital.
So basically, I should ignore John Quincy Adams admitting America exterminate the Indian Race and I should ignore modern imperialism because because America gives benefits to the world? Also, where does Apple for example build all of this technology that we cherish? Happy camps in China, yeah?
Not domestically. America's foreign policy since world war 2 and especially during the 1800's was tyranny on a new scale. I am not going to go over it again because I know you know all this, but you seem to just not care. Perhaps I will start a thread about the word anti-American and why I would call myself anti-American.By the way, you are in an infintesimally small minority in placing america above libya in terms of tyranny. If you are in any doubt, I invite you to compare the number of libyans living in the USA with the number of americans living in Libya. Where parents choose to bring up their children, given a choice, is as about as reliable an indicator of what people really feel about a place as one can get.
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