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| Originally Posted by ssteve shit cos we have to bow down to everybody that comes to this country,which seems to be run by a spineless goverment an a load of tree hugging bloody do-gooders, who's country is it?????????? our country = our rules ,or bugger off.
ssteve  |
"our" country?? "Ours"???
Just exactly who is it that you think this country belongs to? The British? Well, I suppose it could be the british, but then the French have a pretty good claim to it - after all they invaded and won in 1066....
or maybe it should be the Italians - after all the Romans invaded in the first century... so maybe the country belongs to them....
or maybe the Angles, or the Jutes or the Saxons.... they invaded a while after that.... and none of them were "british"
None of them were British.... but they, their decendants and the countless numbers of other people who invaded, immigrated or just briefly visited this country are what make you, and I British.
Don't be under the poor misguided and frankly bigoted (from some of the comments made here) idea that "Britain" is some pure bred country that has evolved to where it is without massive influence from people outside it's boundaries - because it hasn't - half the words we use on an every day basis have their origins in another countries language. Have you never gone out for a curry, or a chinese - basic examples these may be but if you want everyone to "bugger off" then maybe they'll take their culture and everything they brought with them when they go.
"A spineless govt" this will be the govt that took the country to war when half the population were against it - I don't like that they did it, but it wasn't a spineless move. The same govt that is doing everything in it's power to increase anti terror legislation - be it good or bad - not really "spineless" is it.
And just who are these "tree hugging do-gooders"?
The only time you hear that phrase is when someone actually stands up for people against the bigotted comments like the original rant. I guess that makes me a tree hugging doo gooder too - well, frankly I'd rather hug trees than be associated with any of the comments inthe original rant. And I love the idea the "do gooder" should be an insult - how terrible, you do good? that's awfull, horrible, how could anyone who "does good things" live with themselves?? urgh!!!
WHen were you actually asked to bow down to someone who came into this country? I've been here 37 years and have never once been asked to bow for anyone. Mind you I've not met the Queen or her husband ( German and Greek in ancestry if I'm not mistaken.... and hey, you don't get more "British" than the Queen)
Oh, and back to the O/P - I think you'll find that very VERY few Muslims are offended by God. Why? Because they worship him. The Christian god and the muslim god are very, very similar.
And as has been pointed outthe originator of the rant wasn't John Howard, but if it was an Australian, do you not find it perverse that the rant should come from a country who's present majority population is the result of 200 years of imigration of other cultures. I think you'll find that the original Australians are Aboriginal in origin, a culture which much of "modern" Australia, - and probably with much help from the British govt in the early days, did their level best to wipe out. Hunting, killing, enslaving and stealing children of the people who were there first and who had more claim to Australia.
Well, it's late and there are only so many trees a man can hug bfore he gets tired - and the bark does chafe so..., so I'd best get some sleep - I have a long day of do-gooding tomorrow.