Ed Curran (Belfast Telegraph, May 5) is certainly giving the Yanks a lick in
the right direction.
His column represents pretty much everything I detest about 'Norn Iron'
subservience to our Yankee Doodle cousins — not our brothers and sisters,
for they are, like us, Europeans.
In my view, the US is the most dangerous nation on earth, a gulag without
walls, where the likes of Bush, Cheney and Rupert Murdoch have had their way
with society.
Unlike Mr Curran, at no point before or after the Troubles, have I wished to
be a citizen of a 51st US state. That idea is for peasants, who should
congregate at Aldergrove in their Davy Crockett hats.
The rest of us value a deeper and more enlightened tradition.
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