2007-03-20 02:15:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Brotherhood. It's a police thing, you wouldn't understand.
2007-03-20 02:54:27 · answer #1 · answered by Sgt 524 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
If the ex-patriate 4th generation American pseudo-Irish had not supported the agencies that purported to be providing civil aid to the beleagured Catholic community after 1969, then the IRA would not have been able to function to the extent that they did.
Don't get me wrong. I'm of Ulster Prod background, but I take my hat off to the 'forties men' who defended St Comgall's in Divis St, Belfast, when the RUC and the 'B-men' where blazing away.
But I'm born in England (of Ulster parents), was brought up largely in England, and although my Ulster relatives have looked to me for support for their side, I cannot morally give such succour. I have had relatives intimidated from their homes (Lower Ormeau Road, Limestone Road, Maguiresbridge (Co Fermanagh), but I cannot find it in my heart to support bigotry purely because bigotry from the other side has caused bigotry to be amplified. N Ireland has just been bigotry multiplied by bigots on both sides, and is thus a self-generating process.
I cannot see the point of doing anything for 'the old sod' (Ireland), as I do not live there, and would not live there, even though I love the place. So should it be with the expatriate Yanks - they are Americans, often several genarations removed. Can we forget the Famine, 1916, 1922, 1969, Internment, Drumcree and all the other shite, and leave it to the Irish to sort out. Buying guns for the 'ra or the UVF does no one any favours.
It is part of the Irish psyche that victories should be celebrated, and I see nothing wrong with that. 1916, 1922, or for that matter 1690 are all important landmarks in Irish history. But Irish people of all shades must realise that these events are history, and in a world where freedom and equality are lauded, the celebration of these events should be seen as historical pageants of significant events, not coat-trailing demonstrations of some elderly and superceded supremacy. King Billy's goat meat is now surely rotten, and the biscuits in Jacob's Dublin factory, so well defended in 1916, are surely a bit soft by now. The American Irish descended from the Famine immigrants are now replete. Let us now serve a fresh dessert, and drink Black Bush, and bury our ex-patriate involvement in foreign affairs.
2007-03-20 12:36:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
police from ireland north and south , england, scotland and wales started the police force in new york thats why. the police is a brotherhood all over the world. it is virtually a race in its self.
2007-03-20 07:14:38 · answer #3 · answered by heaton_russell 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the same reason why americans confuse the 4 leafed clover as shamrock
2007-03-20 07:29:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cos they are a bit dim and don't know anything about anyting that happens outside there lame country.
2007-03-20 02:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by angel eyes 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋