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The Redcoats Aren't Human!

posted 10 years ago by bloody-3
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In the episode A Matter of Life and Death Dinny O'Byrne (Gerard Kennedy) states "The redcoats aren't human!" He was referring to the brutal way the British treated people. This mini series shows that well. In Ireland the British allowed a million or more to starve to death during the famine - www.wolfetonesofficialsite.com/famine.htm
The British government also has blood on its hands over their use of starvation as a weapon against other peoples -
In Germany www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/starva tion1919.html
In India http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8241

[–] HairynosedWombat 10 years ago

My ancestors were in the Rum Corps and also convicts.
The NSW Corps was of similar social standing as the convicts, and knew that is the convicts successfully revolted they would get equal treatment.
The reason people starved was because there was little food. In the first year of the settlement it almost collapsed due to lack of food.

Generally once the colony was established (by the time of this series) there was enough food and colonists were far better off than in the Old Dart.

The Irish potato famine was 40 years after these events.

In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster

[–] bloody-3 10 years ago

During world war 2 Churchill had no problem with entering into an alliance with Josef Stalin even though the latter had starved to death 7 million Ukrainians in the years 1932-33. Birds of a feather flock together -
www.holodomor.org.uk
www.heretical.com/miscellx/churchil.html

[–] ib011f9545i 9 years ago

Please note sources quoted are fascist/revisionist sites.

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

Please note the above poster can't handle free speech. World War 2 ended 70 years ago so people can make up their own minds without being labelled "fascist" by politically correct fanatics.
www.hellstormdocumentary.com
www.veteranstoday.com/2015/09/24/churchill-was-a-mass-murderer-and-worshipped-mammon/

[–] ib011f9545i 8 years ago

I support free speech even for fascists,why do you object to me pointing out that your sources are from the far right? your other source is from the website of a folk group who are pro IRA.

[–] bloody-3 8 years ago

I object to people like you calling anyone who doesn't agree with the official World War 2 propaganda a "fascist" because it is namecalling and an attempt to pigeonhole people. The websites I linked to are not even necessarily "far right" they are more libertarian than anything else. Precisely because governments in the EU have made it a crime to express any opinion other than that of the Allied propaganda. And these same EU politicians never stop talking about "human rights" yet they don't even believe in the right to free speech. They never stop talking about "democracy" yet the basic principle of democracy which is free speech is not allowed. The website in question is the WW2 forum for CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust). It was set up by lifelong libertarian Bradley Smith who was once imprisoned for selling copies of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller back when it was considered "obscene". He was also married to a Mexican woman so he was hardly "fascist" or even "far right" - http://codoh.com/library/series/3997/