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- From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.british,alt.alien.visitors
- Subject: Re: This Favorite Lie Again.
- Followup-To: alt.alien.visitors
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:47:42 GMT
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- Reply-To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
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- Summary: They are Everywhere
-
- Paul Smee writes:
- >based on ancestry. The fact of the matter is that there are few, if
- >any people in the world who can claim to be descended from the original
- >inhabitants of wherever they live.
-
- >To take NI as an example -- we have the 'Irish' Irish ....
- >a mere few hundred years ago. However, most of these 'Irish' Irish are
- >Gaels -- they didn't originate in Ireland, but rather invaded Ireland
- >from Scotland, taking over from the Picts, about 1000-1500 years ago.
-
- Sheesh -- You'd think people who'd like to wade in here with an
- argument would crack a book once in a while. I mean, everybody
- who is anybody in this here debate knows full well that the
- "Gaels" are the descendents of Space Aliens, as Whitley
- Strieber proved. Do your homework, pal!
-
- >So, by the same arguments they use, they don't belong there either, and
- >ought to move back to Scotland where they belong.
-
- >I'm not sure who they took over from. (The reason you don't hear much
- >about them is that they were completely wiped out by the Gaels. I
- >suppose there may be a lesson in this, but it's not a very pleasant
-
- I'll bet those Picts were space aliens too. Considering their
- legendary clothing style they just couldn't have been human.
-
- >This is NOT an attempt to justify the British handling of NI. Rather,
-
- Heck, no.
-
- >even further. All you end up with is more Bosnias. Someone is going
- >to have to make the breakthrough of figuring out a different way of
- >looking at these problems. ('Whoever holds it now gets it', which is
-
- How about, "convert everyone to Islam".
-