Dollar begat Freedom!* My solution to the problems in Ireland
There is an easy solution to the problems in Ireland and no one has yet addressed it: Great Britain should sell and Ireland should buy Northern Ireland.
It's obvious Great Britain and the Democratic Unionists do not want to give it up freely. And why should they, the DUP members have homes and businesses there.
And it's obvious that the Irish Republicans view Great Britain's "colony" in Northern Ireland as an encroachment of their country's sovereignty and a vestige of a centuries old invasion. This too is a legitimate position. The Republic of Ireland should be united.
So there are two compelling arguments, which thus far have resulted in no solution other than animosity, tragedy and enmity. They've paid blood, and blood has been withdrawn. It's time to give the bottomline solution a chance.
It's not unprecedented. A similar but much less bloody problem was solved in the U. S. through acquisition -- the Louisiana Purchase 302 years ago. And then there was the purchase of Manhattan from the Native Americans and Alaska from the Russians.
The topic should be placed on the table and it should at least be discussed. The politicians keep sending politicians -- they should ask Warren Buffett's help to negotiate a purchase agreement.
The Irish love to fight and the British love to colonize and control. But there's a time for peace and that time is now. The Irish are great entrepreneurs -- they'll make up any outlays in no time! And Great Britain can assuage any hard feelings of abandonment of the DUP with pounds sterling of love only a mother country can bestow.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Le Feile Padraig! You're welcome.
Bennacht Agus Bua! Dia do beattha!
(*If you haven't figured out why the headline for this post says "Dollar begat Freedom!" then you haven't yet read my motto.)
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posted by NEWS4A2, blood-sucking journalist @ 08:00
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I would think that anyone who wished to stay part of Britain could. I would assume under this suggestion, citizens would be given a choice of becoming citizens of the Republic of Ireland or remaining citizens of Great Britain. If those holding Great Britain citizenship wished to stay in Ireland, they could and, I assume, would be welcomed.
Canadians and a number of other legal immigrants live and work in the U.S. under a work visa, or study in the U.S. under a student visa. They remain citizens of their own countries. They aren't eligible to vote in U.S. elections or partake of many social services, but other than that are treated as well as well as any other citizen as long as they follow U.S. laws.
My suggestion here would result in the British government and all government functionaries leaving Northern Ireland, save an embassy.
The land would be defended by the military of the Republic of Ireland, the government services provided by the Republic of Ireland, the laws governing the citizens would be the laws of the Republic of Ireland and enforced by the courts of the Republic of Ireland, and the taxing authority would be, of course, the Republic of Ireland.
Businesses owned by citizens of Great Britain would continue to be owned by citizens of Great Britain if they lived in Northern Ireland so chose to remain citizens of Great Britain. But the corporation would be ruled by the corporate laws of the Republic of Ireland and the taxes paid to the Republic of Ireland instead of Great Britain.
This suggestion transfers final say to matters of Northern Ireland from the Queen Mother and British Parliament to the Republic of Ireland, and I think that's really what the Irish want, to be able to govern their own island in toto.
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