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- 18 de Jul, 2017
I feel the need to addendum this post.For those wondering why so many of us Americans are so invested in Ireland, Ireland is an integral component of the founding mythos of the American Republic (much like England and Scotland). So much so, its memorialized in our own civil war when two ethnic Irish brigades clashed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, one fighting for the State of Georgia and the other for the United States.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAQSEoBp-F0
It all underscores a foundational issue that I think people in the home Islands really do not understand. The Americans do not see Great Britain and Ireland as some foreign island chain alien to them. They see it as their mythical Elysium. The godhead from which their civilization sprang. The place they came from, where the bones of their ancestors sleep in honored repose.
To Americans, the video of an Irishman being attacked by a muslim on the streets of Ireland is not seen as a foreign conflict. Its seen as a personal attack.
America gained independence before the the acts of Union. America does not accept the Union of England, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland as one nation. We broke from the crown before this action was made. Americans still hold the ethnic grievances and memory of the home islands, and have repurposed them towards the more immediate issue of dealing with the French, Spanish and Natives.
But the memory is not gone. It feeds into Americas growing anger towards Canada. Seeing the land our ancestors conquered being surrendered by the Canadians is aggravating to the American soul. But we put up with it. But the godhead, the home islands, being surrendered to the infidel, the Muslim and the African is something so horrifying that we cannot be silent about it. We cannot let the graves of our grandfathers be surrendered by weak men. If Ireland, Scotland and England will not defend those graves, then America must do so.
Light the beacons Britons. Rohan lies across the sea. We will answer, do not listen to the worm tongues in our court.