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Queen Honors Irish Freedom Fighters

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Posted on May 17, 2011
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Visitors read an inscription at Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance.

The queen has landed in Ireland, where she laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance to honor those who fought against British tyranny. And if you think that’s a nice gesture, you should see the emerald green outfit her majesty wore for her arrival.

Not all are pleased with the queen’s visit. Some locals released black balloons in protest and a bomb was discovered on a bus bound for Dublin.  —PZS

BBC:

God Save The Queen was played when she arrived at the Garden of Remembrance to lay the wreath—regarded as a highly symbolic act as the garden commemorates Irish people who fought over the centuries against British rule.

A one-minute silence followed the laying of the wreath, after which the Irish Tricolour was raised from half to full mast and the country’s national anthem was played.

Much of the centre of Dublin was cordoned off, leaving many streets empty, as part of the strict security clampdown put in place for the visit.

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By jpeditor, May 24, 2011 at 12:36 am Link to this comment
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#PatrickHenry: “An historic gesture. Now if other countries can
make the same overtures to former enemies, this world will be a
better place.”

Great idea, lets start with the arab nations that have been trying
to destroy Israel since 1948.

/dreaming of unicorns and lollipops is not real policy…

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By drbhelthi, May 20, 2011 at 9:42 am Link to this comment

“An empty gesture - - - international aid towards a transition into an independent
country (we don’t really want to be part of the West Britain Free State) and real
inquiry’s into sectarian murders. Oh Gawd I really am dreaming! = Saoirse

Dreams can be very useful. Especially, when translated into reality.

Patrick Henry, Agreed. How True! Yet, how unpredictable - - .

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By Saoirse, May 20, 2011 at 6:25 am Link to this comment
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An empty gesture until her government withdraws from the occupied six counties in the north. It took 95+ years just to go over to an established (through traitors)independent country and honor the men and women of 1916. If the Brits are really sincere then go over to Derry and lay a wreath at the Bloody Sunday Memorial followed by an announcement of a troop pullout, international aid towards a transition into an independent country (we don’t really want to be part of the West Britain Free State) and real inquiry’s into sectarian murders. Oh Gawd I really am dreaming!

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By PatrickHenry, May 19, 2011 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment

An historic gesture.

Now if other countries can make the same overtures to former enemies, this world will be a better place.

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By SarcastiCanuck, May 18, 2011 at 12:04 pm Link to this comment
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Yes,she would be easy to criticise but it sure looks like she is extending a humble olive branch when she could be back at the castle having a frenchman drawn and quartered.

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By TDoff, May 18, 2011 at 9:02 am Link to this comment

And the Irish schoolkids joined together and gave the queen an Irish green, tasseled whoopee cushion as a memento of her visit,

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By dick conoboy, May 18, 2011 at 8:37 am Link to this comment

And then there is that pesky little problem about the province of Ulster that was stolen from the Irish.  Did she announce the pull-out date yet?

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By California Ray, May 18, 2011 at 7:21 am Link to this comment

“You may say that I’m a dreamer,
“But I’m not the only one.
“I hope someday you’ll join us,
“And the world will be as one.”

The Queen has joined us!
For the Queen: hip, hip, . . .

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By drbhelthi, May 18, 2011 at 5:08 am Link to this comment

A right queenly gesture.

Has a monument been established for all the children maimed, blown to
pieces and killed by the land-mines produced during the period when she
owned about fifty percent interest in land-mine production?

Against which land-mines Princess Diana was protesting?  Which alienated
Princess Diana from her husband and the “royal” family?  Which rendered
her vulnerable to masculine advances of “outsiders”, to substitute for the
love being withheld by her husband and his “mommy.”  Sadly.

What about the white Fiat Punto with the supercharged engine, manned
by two French agents, that ran the mercedes into the wall of the tunnel?
Which Fiat was compressed into a block of metal thirty minutes later.

Much opportunity for additional “queenly” remembrances.
Is she fit to carry them out?  Questionable. Quite.

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