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‘KILL’ - IT’S IRISH FOR ‘PEACE’!
As noted earlier, the allegedly peaceful are beginning to reveal their lust to kill:
Nobel peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W. Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Actually, it was a little stronger than “feisty”.
“I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence’, because I don’t believe that I am non-violent,” said Ms Williams, 64.
“Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.” Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
Well, of course. It’s not often you witness first-hand such a rousing example of leftist hypocrisy.
“I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize …”
Maybe she should hand it back, then. Another line from the insane peacenik Irishwoman:
“There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change.”
Otherwise Kyoto-signing nations will attack us in hybrid tanks, firing childsafe Nerf missiles from their biofuel-combusting eco-cannons. This woman should be deported.
There can be no sustainable peace if terrorists are allowed to have their way.
There! Much better!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 25 at 01:25 AM • permalinkde·port
tr.v. de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports1. To expel from a country. See Synonyms at banish.
2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport.From the context, bongoman, I’d guess that Tim refers to definition #1.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 25 at 01:42 AM • permalink“Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.” Sounds like someones being eliminationist.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 07 25 at 01:45 AM • permalink“I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize …”
Maybe she should hand it back, then.Yes. The whole lot. The medal, the diploma, AND her share of the $1,000,000 (approx.) of the associated cash prize.
Her publicly expressed desire to kill another person embarasses, by association, even her father’s non-vegetarian profession.
Posted this at LGF, apologies for repeating myself. Incandescent anger and all that.
“Earth Dialogues Brisbane 2006, a major international forum chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Chair of Green Cross International and former President of the Soviet Union , and Premier Peter Beattie.
This is the same socialist state government whose Healthcare system is in such chaos that people like my husband, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, needs to travel a thousand kilometres for any kind of treatment.
Bugger off Gorby, and take Williams with you.”
Accidentaly posted this in the wrong section, so here it is again.
Go to the 5th photo down on this page. I dont think much more needs to be said.
She has some interesing photo ops over the years.http://www.centersofcompassion.org/international_network.html
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 25 at 03:03 AM • permalink#12, Anabel,
I wish you the very best outcome.Now, as to the Nobel, or as St. Ma would say, Noble Peace Prize: Like so many things that rely on reputation these days, the Peace Prize has been so debased as to be stripped of any honor it once may have represented. It fits in perfectly with the Internationalist ideology of egalitarianism; the idea that we can all be equal in nature, as opposed to being equal before the law. Since nature does not give equal gifts, in practice this means that we must all be dragged down to the level of the lowest among us. You will not make an Einstein out of a moron, so you must force Einstein to operate on the level of the moron.
When people such as this woman receives a prize such as the Nobel, what could it possibly mean to give it to, say John Howard or George Bush? What honor, or even simple prestige, could it possibly retain?
Can those a little older than me tell me were the Left so pathologically obsessed with Reagan? I don’t remember this level of extreme hatred at Bush Snr?
I am deeply suspicious that it is his religious convictions above all else that drives this hatred.
I have heard plenty of people over the years say they want to “shoot this politician or other” but it was a throwaway comment always lacking the venom in their voices that we see directed at Bush. Nor do I remember people saying such things at public events and being proud of it.
I doubt most of these people would follow through but one gets firm impression that if they ever got to meet the Pres they would go into some sort of berzerk rage at him.Posted by the nailgun on 2006 07 25 at 03:10 AM • permalinkJust noticed Helen Caldicott is in The Australian today as well.
Maybe it’s International Daft Old Women’s Day.
I have no use for Paleo-lovin’ terror supporters. If this b!tch doesn’t know the score by now, she can jump off a bridge. I read this from the Irish Independent the other day:
IRELAND lost 47 peacekeepers, killed during tours of duty in Lebanon since 1978. The body of one man, Private Caoimhghin Seoighe (Kevin Joyce) has never been found though Hizbollah guerillas were widely blamed for his abduction and death.
Private Seoighe was taken at gunpoint from his post after gunmen shot dead his colleague Private Hugh Doherty, a 21-year-old Donegal man. (via Rantburg)
These Haji savages kill any peacekeepers (US, French, Irish, Indian, Ghanain, etc.) that are sent to help. Get your heads around that, people, and commit to wiping them out like cancer!
Giving this bint the Nobel Peace Prize is like giving your local meth dealer the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 07 25 at 03:20 AM • permalinkMy fellow Tanks will correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t a statement like that earn her at least a little time in lockup were she to have said it in America?
(that’s right, AMERICA, not “the U.S.”)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 07 25 at 03:23 AM • permalinkWould you believe that back in 1977 I published The Peace People of Northern Ireland – impressions of Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams and the Peace Movement in Australia.
Author Dairy O’Donnell, convinced me that her insights were approved by Corrogan, Williams et al, and it was an interesting and economically slim read.
Corrigan was supposed to launch the book during her Australian speaking tour but cancelled after noting that the book’s back cover blurb described her as “Mairead, the virgin martyr, sacrificing her youth and her personal desires on the altarof a higher destiny.”
Sexual frustration, you see, was Dairy O’Donnell’s explanation of the origins of the peace movement in violence-dominated, RC districts of Northern Ireland: “Married adults living a celibate existence build up energies which might otherwise be expressed in conjugal intercourse.”
This extended to Betty Williams. As her husband was often at sea, she was “denied this normal outlet for her sexual or procreative drive for several months.”
As Dairy wonderfully surmised: “Could it have been this sublimated procreative urge that provided the impetus for the tremendous out pouring of energy that went into the conception of the Peace Movement?”
Posted by Geoffrey MG on 2006 07 25 at 03:32 AM • permalink#15 nailgun, I recollect Reagan’s presidency (and Thatcher’s Prime Ministership) and I reckon the hatred was probably on par with today. However, I think the utter stupidity and desperation of the left has risen exponentially. In my youth I was under the (doubtless mistaken) impression that leftists has something to say, even if I didn’t agree with it. Now I know different - they don’t have anything rational to say and never did. Truly they are the very definition of nihilism. Leftists are just baying, snarling, foaming-at-the-mouth mad dogs. No wonder the left finds common cause with jihadis
#13 frollicking: Yet another barking mad famewhore, by the looks of her.
What I find most appalling is that she spouted this shite to an audience of “schoolchildren.” I don’t know what age they were, and I don’t care. She should have been kicked off for that.
Anabel, God be with you and your husband.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 07 25 at 04:27 AM • permalinkThe left hated Reagan because he was unabashedly pro-American in everything he said. He used language that I hadn’t heard since being a girl, taking righteous pride in America’s accomplishments. And he didn’t mince words about how he felt about the Soviet Union.
Even as supposedly militant as Reagan was, however, he still did his bit to exacerbate the situation in the Middle East. He dealt with Iran. He didn’t punish Hezbollah for the murder of our Marines, nor for the bombing of our embassy. He saved Arafat’s ass at the eleventh hour.
We’ve had lousy leadership from both sides of the political spectrum. I think the main culprit, however, is the premise behind the internationalist striped-pants bunch at Foggy Bottom and their entrenched gonzo compatriots at the CIA, that allows them to consider any interest other than that of the country that pays their salaries.
I’m about ready to hang any so-called “citizen of the world” that I come across. On the spot.
Have a look at the recent winners of the Sydney Peace Prize.
That’s your rates at work, Sydney-siders.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 07 25 at 04:46 AM • permalinkI think the main culprit, however, is the premise behind the internationalist striped-pants bunch at Foggy Bottom and their entrenched gonzo compatriots at the CIA, that allows them to consider any interest other than that of the country that pays their salaries.
Keep in mind that the retirements of many “American” diplomats are funded by the Saudis. They’re perfectly loyal to their paymasters.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 07 25 at 05:25 AM • permalink# 26. The guy who founded the Grameen Bank is OK, at least.
But the rest! What a crew!
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 07 25 at 05:40 AM • permalinkJust think.
Back in 1915, a protestor threw an egg at Prime Minister Billy Hughes on Warwick Railway Station.
From that rather innocuous act, there was conceived the Federal Police.
Why?
Because a bugger of a Labour Government in Queensland refused to protect a Conservative Prime Minister properly.
Isn’t that a wonderful piece of history.
I have actually stood on a deserted railway station at Warwick where the incident occured. Just to get a feel for it. Barely a train goes through there weekly. It has a real historical feel to it.
Why do I mention such a piece of historical trivia.
Because some leftie wants to “kill” (not just throw an egg at) an American President.
That’s a bit tame.
What is the politics of those who the Government is paying millions of dollars to evacuate from Lebanon?
Would they be part (if left there) of the reputed demography who would vote a Hezbollah Government into power?Are they, or should they, be returned to Australia? Strewth!!!!!
It is bad enough that we had a loopy Labour Government in New South Wales visibly favour Lebanese thugs on the streets on Sydney and controlling a malleable and politicially manipulable NSW Police Force to this effect (shades of Billy Hughes).Maybe State Labour Governments are really “Hezbollah” anti-Semitic sympathers, but why is a Conservative Federal Government spending taxpayers money in evacuating dubious “citizens” out of their natural habitat.
From Cyprus, why not give them a ticket to slut lazy (internationally that is) France. Would make a great dumping ground for people of dubious political sympathies.
#13 Moleman,
I thought she had a large goiter sprouting from her neck, but it was just Cindy.
#32 MarshallD,
One day I hope to stand on that spot and feel the history. Any other country would have an annual reenactment of the egg incident, but we’re far too laid back for that.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 25 at 06:07 AM • permalinkOh dear. I didn’t realize that this broad was a combination club woman and sob sister. I just visited the site of her “Won’t somebody please think of the children so I can throw lots of fund raisers with my favorite A list snob do-gooder bunch and we can all be seen by and with each other, while being seen by the little people to be doing good” charity web site. (I think that was the name of it. Could be wrong.) There was St. Ma, along with all the usual celebrity suspects. I just loved the obligatory Mother Teresa photo-ops.
These people, so averse to empire, are still practicing it in principle. Only the form has changed. It’s much more convenient (and fun) not to have to actually govern, and be responsible for the suffering masses. You might be tempted to help them work their way out of the ideas that keep them in misery, and that would be interferring with their culture. That’s a definite no no. Much better to have them as victims requiring the sacrifice of an evening and a check. It certainly feels better, anyway. And there’s prizes!
As a first generation Irish American, I grew up with yearly family picnics…half from the Catholic paternal side and half from the maternal Protestant side.
They lasted about 5 years until the insults and fights got out of hand. I could never understand it, I was an American after all. And as we know, America eats the children of immigrants.
The Irish are crazy, both sides. We are at our best as cannon fodder for better societies…but don’t expect anything profound out of us. We revere our poets and intellectuals because there are so few of them.
It’s only my Irish sense of tragedy that gets me thru those rare times of happiness.
#12 Add my best wishes for you and your husband, Anabel.
#40, if this bimbo does live in Florida, then she may have gotten herself in a bit of trouble. Threatening the president is, indeed, illegal, and the Secret Service does not play around.
#15 Can those a little older than me tell me were the Left so pathologically obsessed with Reagan? I don’t remember this level of extreme hatred at Bush Snr?
What’s different now is the Internet. The rage and pathology were probably just as widespread then, but restricted mainly to loners and small pockets of disgruntled nutjobs. Nowadays it’s possible for the nutjobs to connect with each other in vaster numbers via their home computers. Hence the rage and pathology is more organized than it ever was before.“Otherwise Kyoto-signing nations will attack us in hybrid tanks, firing childsafe Nerf missiles from their biofuel-combusting eco-cannons.” Classic, Tim!
Or maybe it should be “firing eco-safe biofuel missiles from their child-combusting Nerf-cannons.” Either way, I’m shakin’ in my boots!!
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 07 25 at 10:05 AM • permalinkWhat’s different now is the Internet.
I think you’re on to something, there. The combination of anger, incoherence, mental illness and probable addiction to controlled substances with which some of the more outrageous comments positively reek suggests that many folk released from asylums and half-way houses (no doubt, with the best intentions) have parked themselves in front of computers in the public library.
“‘Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.’ Sounds like someones being eliminationist.”
Or just off her meds.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 07 25 at 10:21 AM • permalinkA brief history of the Irish race (which I normally don’t post ‘til St. Patrick’s Day but this daft harpy has inspired me:
95% of Irish history ends with the words, “And then he was betrayed by… ” This covers everyone fron Finn MacCool to the Men of ‘98 to Michael Collins and on.
3% of Irish history ends with the words, “And then his success went to his head and turned his brains to shite…” This covers everyone from the bards to Conn of the Hundred Battles to Michael Flatley and ALL the Kennedies (‘cept the hot lezbeen one on Buffy).
2% of Irish History ends with the words, “And then he made something of himself, but he had to bugger off out of Ireland to do it…” This includes every Paddy who ever dug a railroad across the US, Wellington, Shaw, etc.”
Please note there can be and is a considerably overlap between the second and third groups.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 25 at 10:38 AM • permalinkHave you ever seen such a rancid collection of old mutton as was struin across those photos with this b!tch??? enough to make u wanna chuck!!!
and if my child had been at this event, i would have been tempted to find this skanky ho and smack her straight in the mouth… and if i found Beattie had anything to do with it, he might have been next…
lucky i live in WA… but around these people, i would have trouble remaining non violent as well….
Yep, in my experience Reagan was just as despised by the left. My pals in the German Euro-left at the time took about three beers to conclude that the Cold War would end if someone would just shoot my pres. But the independent left was also constrained by the obvious, geriatric thuggishness of the Kremlin (think Breshnev, Andropov, Chernenko). The difference now is that the left has lost its economic program (state ownership of industry, massive welfare control of society), and the only identity it has is reflexive hostility to the dominant power of the US. Hence the despicable alliance between the “progressive” left and the medieval primitives of the Islamic jihad.
well they may not have liked reagan or thatcher, but i wouldn’t be surprised if the bit of a working over their hero Clinton got from the righties while in office hasn’t stoked their insanity to near fever pitch…
and this whole islamic/commie/environmental alliance thing is probably somewhat newish as well, and amplified as people have mentioned by the fact than any @ss can now broadcast their opinions to the world via the internet..
Amateurs like Williams give the rest of us homicidal maniacs a bad name.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2006 07 25 at 11:49 AM • permalinkReading saltydog’s #37 has resulted in the uncontrollable urge to post this link to The Onion.
As peace prize laureats go, Williams seems fairly typical. At least she did once actually advocate for peace (as opposed to planting a tree or helming an organization of cutthroats and crooks). That seemingly is the best any of ‘em can do. We all know what’s required to actually achieve peace and the Nobelists seem ill-disposed to reward those endeavors.
Included in her photo array is a pic that includes Marian Wright Edelman (misnamed Marilyn Wright Edelman in the caption). Edelman, a socialist, is the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund which has much in common with Williams’ World Centers of Compassion for Children International:
It is World Centers of Compassion for Children International’s intent to change how governments look at and deal with children’s issues. Top priority for WCCC is the creation and implementation of protective legislation written into every government’s laws.
Separate courts that deal only with children’s issues must be created. All too often children’s issues are lost in courts, primarily set up to handle adult cases. We know worldwide flagrant abuses of law have allowed the torture and death of children.
It is also essential that neutral areas be created, areas where no army, navy or air force can attack when countries go to war. If there can be M.A.S.H. and Red Cross neutral zones, these same principles can be adopted and safe havens of peace created for children.
In the early 70’s, recognizing that interest in the plight of minorities and the poor was waning, Edelman embraced “the children” as the vehicle of choice to further her collectivist ends. In this new effort she discovered a willing and eager acolyte in one Hillary Rodham who eventually served as the organization’s board chairman.
It is one of Hillary’s core beliefs that children should have public advocates who would lobby and, more to the point, litigate on their behalf for clean air, health care, education, public housing, guaranteed employment and so forth thus expanding the welfare state and subordinating parental rights to the “needs” of the State and the “welfare” of the child.
Though she has had to walk back from her early advocacy in the interests of national office, make no mistake, the essential Hillary is a woman who believes deeply in the “rights” of children (I personally think this stems from her childhood relationship with her father). Hillary believes that a family’s interests do not subsume the child’s. In a 1978 essay titled “Children’s Rights: A Legal Perspective”, she states Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of veneral disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will significantly affect the child’s future should not be made unilaterally by parents. In other words, “experts” such as judges, child welfare workers and teachers would play a more decisive role in the child’s development than the parents.
While Betty Williams these days may be more or less a gadfly in the field, Hillary Clinton is the real deal who has worked throughout her life to bring her ideas to fruition. I urge anyone who would lend his support to a Hillary presidency to educate himself thoroughly about that “village” in which Herself would have us all reside.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 25 at 02:46 PM • permalinkCan those a little older than me tell me were the Left so pathologically obsessed with Reagan?
Well, actors and musicians and academics and liberal columnists and the like called him a God-addled, warmongering, patriotic fascist moron, but that’s as far as it went.
Reagan and/or Bush Sr. were in the White House from ‘80 to ‘92. The rhetoric toned down a bit after Reagan left (yes, they hated him as much as they hate GW now), but check out the pop music for that whole period - Violent Femmes (“Old Mother Reagan”), that guy from the Eagles (“The End of the Innocence”), Genesis (“Land of Confusion”), Neil Young (“Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World”).
Same ol’ same ol’. The rhetoric hasn’t even changed. It’s just like being in college again!
Kyda, thank you for reminding me that the buzy club ladies of Palm Springs and Beverly Hills, with their enormously expensive charity ball season, are only a beard for those true powerlusters who hunger after our children. (I was relieved to see CA’s latest attempt to force the earlier takeover of our children, led by some of these same people, failed so spectacularly.) I guess the left feels that, since starting the indoctrination at the age of 5 hasn’t formed perfect children yet, we must begin earlier - and better oversee the parents. For the sake of the children. Of course, under the law, the parents are still ultimately responsible, no matter how we badly we screw up their kids.
And we need more money if it is all to work. Lots more money.
Hillary showed her truly vicious colors when she was in charge of socializing medicine. Scary old broad, that one. Nothing subsequent to that has convinced me that she has changed her ambitions in the least; quite the contrary.
A classic case of ‘activist careerism’. When the cause that originally brings you to fame finally peters out, latch on to something else, like ‘climate change’. Just like a fading pop star appearing on Celebrity Squares. Or an iconic confection (Mars bar, etc.) being reinvented as a drink, a breakfast cereal, and finally a toothpaste.
I grew up while President Reagan was in office (elem. school to high school) and can still remember teachers at every level spewing the most vile stuff against him. In my 8th grade journalism class I was assigned to write a story about the Reagan-Mondale election. Well, I should say we did a story about Mondale/Ferraro but no mention of Pres. Reagan. I thought that was odd then, but being a kid/student you learned not to question them. By high school, my teachers were completely foaming at the mouth about Reagan. I remember particularly when he talked of the “Evil Empire.” That sent them reeling for months. I didn’t know or understand at the time, but gosh I sure do miss Mr. Reagan.
I hear that an Irish jury has acquitted a ‘Peace’ gang of causing millions of dollars damage to US planes at an Irish airport - because they were being used for military reasons. They only bashed planes this time.
Acquitted!
That’s a good measure of Irish anti-US, isolationist madness.
The only thing Ireland doesn’t want to be isolated from is the EU Gravytrain.Did you hear about the Irishman who got so drunk on his pilgrimage to Rome that he kissed his wife and beat the Pope’s foot to a pulp?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 25 at 08:30 PM • permalink58. Heck ladcraig, same thing happened in 1964. Our (newly unified) teacher thoroughly schooled us on the benefits of LBJ, the UN, civil rights (hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day), and The Great Society. No mention of Goldwater though, didn’t want to scare the wee kiddies now.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 07 25 at 08:35 PM • permalink#37 Salty
Schmoozing for charity?
Why do these organisations have such impossibly long and quite silly names?
I suppose that everything has it’s own
grouporganisation. I’d like to start my own, but can’t think of anything to champion that I can make up a ridiculously long name for. (But I am sure that suggestions will be forthcoming from friends at this site!)The “peace” in the Nobel Peace Prize perhaps has the same meaning as the “peace” in the Religion of Peace.After all old Alf Nobel for whom the Prize is named was the inventor of dynamite and even today the company started by Alf,now named Dynamit Nobel RWS, continues to thrive and to produce a useful line of firearms and ammunition for those interested in the pursuit of peace at the sharp end.
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Interesting that the ‘The Irish Greatness’ once involved Christians lamenting attempts to wipe out Israel.
How things have changed there:The Irish discovery, recovered from bog land last Thursday, comprises extensive fragments of what is thought to be an Irish Early Christian Psalter, written on vellum, a fine animal skin parchment.
“It testifies to the incredible richness of the early Christian civilisation of this island and to the greatness of ancient Ireland,” he said.
“It may have been lost in transit or dumped after a raid, possibly more than 1,000 to 1,200 years ago,” a spokesperson said.
Part of Psalm 83, a lament to God over other nations’ attempts to wipe out Israel, is legible.
“World Centers of Compassion for Children International”
When I was a child groups like this, with their goo-goo fake “compassion” for the likes of me always made me feel like something hot and slimy was trying to smother me. In fact, they still make me feel that way.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 25 at 10:47 PM • permalinkWell, actors and musicians and academics and liberal columnists and the like called him a God-addled, warmongering, patriotic fascist moron, but that’s as far as it went.
No one was more gobsmacked at the outpouring of love, affection and respect for RR at his death than this group. Makes you wonder why they never wonder just who the real morons are.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 07 25 at 11:06 PM • permalinkReagan was a pussycat.
The real fix was “All The Way with LBJ.”Another era, another time.
The Government wants to expand the Australian Army to improve its capabilities internationally. Yet it can’t fill current capacity.
A sniff of the marbles coming up.
Vietnam vets are dying off anyway, so we need a new generation of psychiatrically affected returned veterans with half their limbs missing and addled brains to fill Anzac Day marches.
Oh joy of joys. Hallejuhah.
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