Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kumar who wrote (89606)	12/8/2004 1:52:19 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

kumar, According to an Irish friend, the conflict in Ireland is 95% of the Irish people wanting to have the right to govern themselves, and get out from under the suffocating thumb of England. The other 5% is bad feelings between the Catholics, and the Protestants. They feel that, if Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can govern themselves, they have the right to do the same thing. If they were not so close to England, that probably would have happened decades, or centuries, ago.

To: kumar who wrote (89606)	12/8/2004 8:25:12 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

Kumar, Northern Ireland is populated with irish who happen to be Catholic and Scots (now called Scots/Irish) who immigrated when the English were trying to repopulate Ireland based on some pretty genocidal policies. When Ireland won its independence the northern part was Gerrymandered to produce a Scots/Irish majority and remain in the UK. Its mostly a nationalistic conflict where the warring factions just happen to be different denominations. If it were purely religious in nature (as in the middle ages) people would be trying to convert each other (peacefully or by the sword). A more appropriate counter-example might be the Balkans... But even there it appears to have nationalistic roots. John