So why does being a patriot mean blowing things up?

stovelid · 10-02-2011 11:24AM

Well, for anybody with a decent dab of blood-lust, it was clear that the serial killing market was too specialist and conspicuous. Plus you ended up in jail for too long if you were caught. When you couched your acts in pseudo-revolutionary cant, you could still slaughter people, run vastly lucrative extortion and smuggling rackets in tandem; get political status in jail for blowing up children and you even got your own neat little ceremonial blazers to wear down to the local. On top of all that you then got released early for agreeing to stop an illegal murder campaign that you should never have started in the first place.

Result, as they say.

the_syco · 10-02-2011 12:56PM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Join the IRA and defeat them!

Of join the army, and do your patriot duty, and kill anyone who opposes the queen :rolleyes:

Cheap shots are cheap.

Pace2008 · 10-02-2011 01:02PM

Some people claiming to be patriots will tell you that 26+6=1, but we true republicans that the equation only balances when it's 26+6+3=1 - we need to leave room for when we take over England, Scotland and Wales.

Earthhorse · 10-02-2011 02:13PM

Dunno. Guess they just like balloons?

KeithAFC · 10-02-2011 04:53PM

the_syco wrote: »

Of join the army, and do your patriot duty, and kill anyone who opposes the queen :rolleyes:

Cheap shots are cheap.

:pac: I thought that was what the OP meant.

Snakeblood · 10-02-2011 05:13PM

Metallitroll wrote: »

no, being a patriot means anti-semetism and receding hair

Halfway there!

*adjusts wig*

Marcus.Aurelius · 10-02-2011 05:15PM

They shoot without shame
In the name of a piece of dirt
For a change of accent
Or the color of your shirt
Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colorful rag is unfurled

Rush - Territories

Sums up my view quite nicely.

Otacon · 10-02-2011 05:37PM

Retail Hell wrote: »

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious'
- Oscar Wilde

'Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!'
- Albert Einstein

'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.'
- Samuel Johnson

Choice words from more intelligent people than I.

RMD · 10-02-2011 06:23PM

galwayrush wrote: »

It's usually brainwashed twits that do the blowing up, the armchair generals are usually directing things from where they are nice and safe.

To become an armchair general though you must spend years being a brainwashed twit. If you've spent years putting your life on the line, I think you deserve to sit on a cosy armchair and direct operations.

micro_dot · 11-02-2011 12:20AM

Right, for years a lot of Irish American money went on arms purchases, apparently, which were used back home on the auld sod. De Valera kicked off his leadership of the country with a disastrous economic war, more political than practical. And every generation since then there was an economic depression (the 30's, the 50's, the end of the 70's into the 80's). And this generation's crash caps the lot. What was different about this crash is that the cleverest guys in the country had a hand in it, the ones with the expensive private educations.
Do we have a real self-destructive streak? I vaguely recall Brian Lenihan telling us to be patriotic and commit economic hari kari. We have sold ourselves back into slavery, with barely a protest. When you are really successful, you go off and pay tax abroad.
It has not been taboo in our culture to hold the country to ransom, as an independent TD for example, to get certain local results. And rather than that being censured, it will be rewarded. Cute hoors is the term, innit.

micro_dot · 11-02-2011 12:23AM

Otacon wrote: »

'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious'
- Oscar Wilde

'Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!'
- Albert Einstein

'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.'
- Samuel Johnson

Choice words from more intelligent people than I.

Love those quotes, there's true genius in them.

So why does being a patriot mean blowing things up?

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