Knowing that many of our readers have transited through Shannon, I thought that this bit of news may be of interest. Usually, you are warmly welcomed in Ireland: HERE. But some have darker thoughts...
A 5th Columnist Group: The self described (Galway Alliance Against War) cut the hydraulic brake-lines of this plane while it was transiting in Shannon, Ireland.
This incident happened on December 20th. Somehow, I am not surprised that it hasn't received much notice by the media. This fellow-traveling gang of saboteurs, are snugly given cover by the press, so they have little to worry. But in any case, The Irish Times has given it a scant few lines: HERE.
And who are these miscreants? How about Denis J. Haliday, whose missive is found: HERE
Or Mr. Clinton: HERE
Because sabotaging for peace is like raping for virginity. But seriously... While cutting the brake-lines is more of an annoyance, what is to impede some miscreant from lobbing a bomb into the wheel-well, limpet style?
Boq
This Freedom Bird: Direct Recipient of Peace Activism.
A 5th Columnist Group: The self described (Galway Alliance Against War) cut the hydraulic brake-lines of this plane while it was transiting in Shannon, Ireland.
This incident happened on December 20th. Somehow, I am not surprised that it hasn't received much notice by the media. This fellow-traveling gang of saboteurs, are snugly given cover by the press, so they have little to worry. But in any case, The Irish Times has given it a scant few lines: HERE.
And who are these miscreants? How about Denis J. Haliday, whose missive is found: HERE
Or Mr. Clinton: HERE
Because sabotaging for peace is like raping for virginity. But seriously... While cutting the brake-lines is more of an annoyance, what is to impede some miscreant from lobbing a bomb into the wheel-well, limpet style?
Boq
No, Mr. Haliday, a *civilian* alirliner was sabotaged by cowardly terrorist dirtbags acting in the spirit of the Lockerbie bomber -- and anyone applauding such an action is equally dirty.
Note the letter is from:
"Denis J. Haliday
admirer, friend and former UN Assistant Secretary-General" and apparently he really was the head of UN Humanitarian relief in Iraq in 1997-98. Remember, when Saddam was using all the goodies for his own purposes, not helping the poor civilians?
What a bunch of buttorfices!
We cannot afford to support the U.N. with money borrowed from China. Might as well cut off all foreign aid to every country which has failed to step up and pitch in on the war on radical Islamiist terrorists.
Pretty much everyone in the UN hierarchy who was involved in the "Oil for Food" scam was dirty -- and in 2004, Mr. Haliday had the temerity (and the stupidity) to state *for the record* that there was "no scandal" and it was all Bush's fault, anyway.
I've been told by a fellow soldier from an Irish family that the Irish have (understandably) bitter feelings about "wars of occupation," which is how many of them view Iraq and Afghanistan.
In '66 I flew on a Trans Carribean Airlines DC-8 (had never heard of the Airline before that, or since), and an Eastern Airlines DC-8 coming back.
My family flew Eastern Seaboard Airlines out of Dover AFB to Orly in Paris when we went adventuring in Europe in 1965. On what was then a pretty brand-spanking new Boeing 707. I remember being somewhat disappointed when I looked out the window in *FRANCE!* to see my first "french" thing... which was a Texaco tanker refueling the bird. At least there was an Esso tanker at the next bird over...
Ah - The Trans Caribbean Airlines: May God rest her soul. This was the P.R. based airlines whose claim to fame was to shuttle the Puerto Rican masses immigrating to New York during the 50's and 60's. Their red-eyed flights SJU to JFK used to cost only $50.00. The airline used to be *er* fondly called by Ricans everywhere, La TranCa. The inside joke was that people would boast: "I'm riding La TranCa to New York.
And what is La Tranca? A Tranca is that big stiff iron rod that millers of old would stick into the gears of their grist mills and bring the millstone to a stop. Yeah - I'm riding The-Big-Stiffy to New York.
By the same token, when debt haunts Ireland again, as it will, don't lend it a single greenback; not a cent. Leave Ireland to deal with financial collapse on their own.
:-^)