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Thread #130740   Message #2947265
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
18-Jul-10 - 05:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Have a Glorious Twelfth! (Drumcree Parade)
Subject: RE: BS: Have a Glorious Twelfth! (Drumcree Parade)
In case mg is deleted as a guest, he said,
My post was not satire. Why should I have my rights to celebrate St. Patrick's day if I don't allow the same rights to others? And the more it is trivialized and everyone joins in and has a good time the better off everyone will be.

If they are waving banners that say death to Catholics, then stop them from doing that. If they are just putting on their Sunday suits and playing accordians and rambling down the road, whether or not I like them, or like the music, or the drums give me a headache, or their ancestors did bad things to mine, I have to let them proceed and in fact I should find a way to join them peacefully if they don't mind...if, and this is a big if, they just remind me of past wrongs, and they are not intentionally doing anything bad presently but I just don't like what they are doing, it is my duty to suck it up. Avoid it. Make other plans for the couple of hours it takes place. And control any teenagers I might have bred. mg

If everyone showed such tolerance, the problems would vanish.
Jim said,
"you have managed to have ignore the points made about the threatening nature of these marches..
Please explain why and how they threaten you.
And what has Lewes got to do with Orange parades?MG uses a consistent identity, and is in no danger of being deleted.
-Joe Offer-