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Thread #150911   Message #3613162
Posted By: Jim Carroll
27-Mar-14 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
"Punch caricatured everyone like that."
You mean like this?
"Changing a bit from a deliberate policy of genocide I see Christmas."
I've never claimed it was a definite Genocide policy - I said so when I gave my view on the Coogan book - inconclusive.
I say that whether it was deliberate or not, it was genocidal in effect - Trevelyan's appointment and the government's policy STILL UNCOMMENTED ON BY YOU makes it probable that it was deliberate, but whatever the case, there were a million corpses to whom id didn't matter one way or the other.
Britain could have helped, they chose not to, just as you could comment on the facts of British policy but choose not to.
Doesn't matter in either case, you, like your 'fick' mate, have been blown out of the water.
Answer the point or crawl down the hole you have dug for yourself
Jimmy, Jimbo, Christmas, whatever you prefer, you little bar-room brigadeer you