TET, as usual you give me a lot to think about with your post, Ben may well be a decent bloke, I like reading the views of the vast majority of posters on here, from the rebels to the flat earth man (can't be beat for comedy value by the way)
I'm really shocked at how people fall for propaganda from countries like Britain and America, they have fooled the majority into believing they are free, a perfect example, within the last 72 hours the Belfast Telegraph pulled a story from it's website and twitter feed, it was about a former member of the Glenanne gang who said the British state had urged him and his colleagues to attack a catholic primary school during the Troubles, they knew that the outcome would be retaliation, that was the aim.
The post truth era we now live in is a dangerous and a brilliant tactic used heavily by the Brits to fool the public and keep them off the scent of any scandal, I watch these bastards closely, the patterns are there for all to see if you even pay a wee bit of attention.
The next time Britain mess up on the world stage or is embarrassed politically, within 24 hours a statement along the lines of "MI6 have thwarted 50 terrorist attacks on Britain in the last 6 months"
Every major media outlet in Britain will cover this bullshit for a few days, this is all it takes until the good folk of Britain have another reason to be outraged, (the wrong person voted off x factor, Tommy the tit Robinson arrested, or a young muslim woman wants to return to Britain from Syria.)
I used to put all the blame on this country's faults on the people in control, but the older I get, the more I get angry with Joe public, we let these monsters get away with murder and do or say nothing about it.
The freedom that we are supposed to enjoy comes with a heavy price tag, a mainstream media that is poisoning the masses with propaganda, if the peoples first reaction is to trust what news they are being fed, then we are truly fucked, sadly in this instance Ben seems to have fallen hook line and sinker for it.
That blissful ignorance is explained by most don't actually care enough to read different points and histories to be able to have a credible conclusion, but still like to have an opinion!!
sadly many even many Irish have an opinion based on what the british crown needed the story to be! a sectarian one! divide!!
One of the quotes here! orange order consider themselves as white protestants!
Only other time I have heard that claimed as 'the identity' is by some scrawny wee asswipes about as hard as and almost as cultured as yoghurt.
Best not tell the poor orange fools in Ghana!
these trash may not have a sash around their scrawny necks, but they represent well the masses of the orange disorder well who join the ranks and imagine themselves 'protestants. Ignorant pathetic could not expand a sentence of any religion of any credible history anywhere.
Anyway when the recent history shows to even the mildly curious, that the orange order are nothing than an extreme and even more perverse british nationalist club, most of who have never cast a regular shadow near
let alone actually regularly attend any worship of any kind anywhere.
A summary of the history .
Up until 1798 and the subsequent rewriting of Irish history by british crown historians! the orange order was a relatively insignificant agrarian movement, one of the many movements of all religions and none fighting mainly localized townland issues!
But by 1798 the oo were soon considered as a most useful resource to recreate by the british 'Hanoverian' crown
who had recently just lost their American colony who set about arming the oo as a loyalist militia, and they were first used to first counter local Ulster 'protestants and dissenters' who considered themselves first and foremost as Irishmen.
The oo first real actions were to target and slaughter the many Presbyterians and Anglicans who had aligned as united Irishmen.
this video is simplistic and does not even approach the level of original Presbyterian Irish nature and anti establishment anti monarchy by creed! but it at least informs the ignorant who have an opinion based on purposeful spread ignorance, for division
all of course cynically and all but completely re written by and for the crown.
Protestant is a word btw not a religion and never was a actual religion.
orange order prohibits Mormons, Orthodox, Jehovahs, and credible Quakers and several other non RC Christians from becoming a pathetic idiotic perverse laughable parody of an already simplistic british nationalism.