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VermGho5t wrote:I am a Scottish-American and I sympathize with my distant brethren from Northern Ireland. A long history of English tyranny over your own land puts a bad taste in one's mouth. It is still terrorism though. When you have to resort to such a desperate level such as that, it crosses the line for today. In some respects I can in a way regard it as a comeuppance to the English for the various infractions she has put upon her closest neighbors in past history.

Almost all actors are idiots. A large majority of them should get a real world education, instead of hiding behind the shields of their money and groups.

Well, as a 'Scottish American' I would expect your knowledge to be a little deeper and not so anti-English, seeing it was King James I (also known as King James VI Scotland, being Mary's eldest son and the only legitimate heir to the English throne following the demise of Elizabeth I of England) who first mucked Ireland up.

And believe me, the Scots gave as good as they got. You think the sieges performed latterly in Rebellion were genteel affairs, where a chap in a Kilt rode up to the Gates, explained to the English citizenry that he really was most dreadfully sorry, but after all, their Lords and Masters had been positively beastly to the Scots? No. Of course they didn't. They laid siege, broke in, raped, pillaged, burnt, murdered and worse.

But keep on looking through Rose Tinted Specs.

And if you are wondering, I am Scottish. Born and bred in Edinburgh.