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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (32373)4/6/2008 5:02:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 219928
 
I used to hassle Bernie Pilon in Hawkesbury who said he was French. I explained to him how he was really just another American. It's like African Americans saying they are African. Of course they have nothing whatsoever to do with it and if popped back into their ancestors' villages as the slaves they were, they would soon be begging to be put back where they really belong. Irish Americans stupidly think they are Irish, but they have nothing in common with it. There was an "Irish" woman I met in Canada and in fact I was more French than she was Irish. One of her great grandparents were from Ireland or something.

Especially stupidly, they'd send money to the freedom fighters in Ireland to help blow up people to fight the British, as though the Boston Tea Party had just happened and there was need for solidarity with Omagh bombers to help turn back the redcoats.

After the USA experienced such "freedom fighting" in 2001, there was a more sensible attitude to helping the IRA blow people up and murder them.

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