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Hyperbole and Hypocrisy
Really, I ask you!
The Washington Post reported ... on Saturday ... the remarks of John Shanahan, a local AOH leader, indicating the invitation to the Orange Order is like "...inviting the KKK to a Martin Luther King Celebration."
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They claim to have spent two years in the preparation of this program but were not aware of the dismal track record of the Orange Order or that the Ancient Order of Hibernians is also very active promoting an agenda of pride in their Irish heritage and religious tolerance in Ireland.
Who exactly are they trying to kid? The Hibernians of all people? All they're doing is using tired old republican rhetoric to inflame religious hatred and intolerance (there's only one true Irish people, don't ya know?), but that's really nothing new in Irish-Republicanism or "Irish-America", is it?
"The AOH had a historical concept of itself as a continuation of the 1641 rebellion, a Catholic uprising which attempted to wipe out the Protestant Plantations of Ireland and to extirpate heresy (by which was meant Protestantism) in Ireland."
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