As an Irish citizen living in the US - I have decided that it is time to leave this country - it is starting to look, smell, and act as Germany did during the 1930s. I wish you Americans luck in regaining civilized justice in your broken country, if not, I hope that the EU will be accepting of political refugees from this brave but failed experiment.
Golly, we had the unmitigated gall to convict a US citizen who has admitted going to Afghanistan to fight US soldiers there. How terrible of us!
You remind me of your cousins in the St. Patrick's Brigade of the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War (US citizens who bore arms against the US). They, too, wished to be free to fight their own country without consequences.
Man, some days I'm really embarassed that I've Irish blood. Please, do us all a favour and leave.
"As an Irish citizen living in the US - I have decided that it is time to leave this country - it is starting to look, smell, and act as Germany did during the 1930s."
Interesting. Were you actually in Germany in the 1930's, or are you basing your opinion solely on the History Channel?
You know, entirely apart of the positions being fought about here, your particular line of argument is faulty. You're saying that unless you were actually living in Nazi Germany, you cannot have the ability to compare current conditions to it? That makes no sense. One does not need to have firsthand experience of something to be able to describe it and work with the idea in your mind. That discounts pretty much the entire concept of the written word as a method of communicating ideas, history, and exper
Where would the world be today if, Albert Einstein hadn't "Quit", and left Germany in 1932?
Where would the world be today if, Wernher Von Braun hadn't "Quit", and surrendered in 1945?
Where would the world be today, if that sea dwelling mammal hadn't "Quit", and said, screw the water, I want to live on the land, back millions of years ago?
Hm, go for it. Or, why don't you stay and help repairing things in the US? There seems to be very very much work to do (from the perpective of an "old european person", like, german. Very old Europe, indead. Like, we did not start any Wars for, let me think, 50 years. Look back at the American History of "self defence" of the last 50 years.). Well yes I'm German, I think the War is a mess, Napalm is a mess, and it's still not over. It has only began. Why not stop it instead of leaving?
now this is, in my opinion, bullshit. We are not occupied in any way, and we have an army. But, whom should we attack? And, why?
Germany was the center of the world's biggest military conflict, involving much presence from Russia and the USA, tanks in the city of berlin (1960s) and stuff, for 50 years. We came over our own conflict (I think you might notice that the Mauer has fallen 1989), and we are the center and one of the driving forces of the European Union.Hell yes, I'm proud of that. The European sta
With the implementation of the Patriot Act the 4th amendment of the US constitution is basically null and void - its gone, and that's only the beginning.
The replys of americans to Ians statement speak for themselves though: anyone opposing the actions of the US government is a "traitor", "unamerican" and should get lost. Right. Perhaps they're not aware that anyone questioning the decisions of the "Fuhrer" in Nazi-Germany was considered a traitor, too.
Heil America
FWIW, I've felt a little Anti-American backlash occasionally while living in Ireland. Plus I've spent my time detained in Mount Joy [underwayinireland.com] when "refused leave to land" in Ireland. So it would seem you will return to a country no longer "the land of a thousand welcomes." When you do, the pints will be better but the pints will be a lot more expensive.
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Let me know if come across any good engineering gigs - I'll probably be on the same path very soon. :oP
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You remind me of your cousins in the St. Patrick's Brigade of the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War (US citizens who bore arms against the US). They, too, wished to be free to fight their own country without consequences.
Man, some days I'm really embarassed that I've Irish blood. Please, do us all a favour and leave.
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Interesting. Were you actually in Germany in the 1930's, or are you basing your opinion solely on the History Channel?
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Where would the world be today if, Wernher Von Braun hadn't "Quit", and surrendered in 1945?
Where would the world be today, if that sea dwelling mammal hadn't "Quit", and said, screw the water, I want to live on the land, back millions of years ago?
-Shut your mouth, and open your mind!
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Germany was the center of the world's biggest military conflict, involving much presence from Russia and the USA, tanks in the city of berlin (1960s) and stuff, for 50 years. We came over our own conflict (I think you might notice that the Mauer has fallen 1989), and we are the center and one of the driving forces of the European Union.Hell yes, I'm proud of that. The European sta
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