http://bilgebrain.net/2004/10/06/passport-please/ the increasingly incontinent ramblings of a drunken has-been irish punk Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://bilgebrain.net/2004/10/06/passport-please/#comment-2 madra Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://bilgebrain.net/?p=19#comment-2 well. sadly, as i predicted, ken's new irish passport didnae do him much good, did it? he still got butchered and no doubt in the minds of the fundamentalists, ireland is now seen as trying to ingratiate herself with the government of one of the occupying forces rather than, as previously in the middle east, serving as an 'honest broker'. what's the bet, that somewhere down the line, some real paddy ends up getting his throat cut because of this 'neutrality-shift'? well. sadly, as i predicted, ken’s new irish passport didnae do him much good, did it? he still got butchered and no doubt in the minds of the fundamentalists, ireland is now seen as trying to ingratiate herself with the government of one of the occupying forces rather than, as previously in the middle east, serving as an ‘honest broker’. what’s the bet, that somewhere down the line, some real paddy ends up getting his throat cut because of this ‘neutrality-shift’?

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