Britain gives Sen Ted Kennedy honorary knighthood

Thursday 05th March, 05:12 AM JST

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VOR at 11:13 AM JST - 5th March

Do the British people know he drove off a pier and let some poor girl die while he dragged his drunk butt to shore to take refuge at the Kennedy compound before notifying the authorities? Do they care that he was an Irish Republican Army sympathizer responsible for killing British citizens. Knighthood in this day and age is a joke, the Knighting of Kennedy makes it seem even more ridiculous.
Taka313 at 11:47 AM JST - 5th March

Jealousy is an ugly emotion.

Taka
The_Pope at 02:56 PM JST - 5th March

VOR - I totally agree. There is a special place in Hell for him...
adaydream at 03:25 PM JST - 5th March

Congratulations Ted. Long time coming.

TheQuestion

There's peace in Ireland?

Hmmmm smart observation. < :-)
Wottock_Hunt at 03:44 PM JST - 5th March

Knighthood these days amounts to one simple question:

Will the Labour Party get good press if candidate X receives an honour?
skipthesong at 03:44 PM JST - 5th March

Wonder if they'll make skip a knight some day... I mean if they can give it to Ted, I guess anyone can get it.
grafton at 09:16 PM JST - 5th March

VOR at 11:13 AM JST

You got in before me & said near enough what I was going to say about this utter stupidity. A knighthood in Britain’s past meant something rotten now it means something else rotten, Few people of real value ever get these things, but giving one to an IRA sympathiser is probably the sickest joke that Brown & Co. have yet come up with.
Thenewfront at 09:16 PM JST - 5th March

I don't think he deserves this, he sided with the IRA and helped raise funds for their terror campaign against Britain, as did hundreds of thousands of other Americans.
Starviking at 09:41 PM JST - 5th March

Lets see, Kennedy supported only one side in a civil conflict and somehow he gets a knighthood for being a 'peacemaker'? He was, like a lot of US Politicians, interested only in the Irish-American vote.

@The Question

There's peace in Ireland?

Compared to what was going on in the past, aye.
TheQuestion at 10:02 PM JST - 5th March

I deal in absolutes, there is still massive ammounts of resentment on both sides. Especially near the 'peace lines' in the major cities. When you have two people that hate each other so much that you need a wall to seperate them, but their not fighting at the moment, I don't call that peace, I call it stability. I'm not saying Ireland is worse for wear from Kennedy's efforts but peace is the wrong word when describing the current situation.
Betzee at 10:10 PM JST - 5th March

It was an article of faith among the British that the IRA received the majority of it's funding from across the pond. Nobody ever produced data to substantiate this claim, but according to the WaPo:

Irish American support for Irish terrorism came in many forms. There were Irish Americans who waved the Irish flag once a year on St. Patrick's Day and admired the IRA's cause but felt queasy about the methods. There were Irish Americans who collected money for Catholic charities in Northern Ireland without condoning the IRA at all. There were also Irish Americans who, while claiming to be "aiding the families of political prisoners," were in fact helping to arm IRA terrorists. Throughout the 1970s, until Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher asked President Ronald Reagan to stop them, they were the IRA's primary source of funding. And even after that they were widely tolerated.

As an American of largely British extraction, I'm aware of the tremendous prejudice against the Irish in places like Boston where they formed the underclass. It was just where you came from, religion also entered into it and served as another way to divide the two.

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Betzee at 10:25 PM JST - 5th March

The post-industrial economic development of northern Ireland, which became an outsourcing hub for American companies, certainly played a role in the peace process. It drew more recent Irish immigrants, whom Ted Kennedy helped secure green cards for since family reunification is the basis for US immigrant visas and the Irish had missed a few generations, home.
Thenewfront at 10:44 PM JST - 5th March

Betzee: The squaddies originally went there to protect the catholics. Don't beleiev everything you see on screen. Ted Kennedy supported the IRA along with a large amount of Americans. Thousands of innocents died, amny in England where innocents were regulary targeted with many thousands more maimed for life.

This award is a disgrace to all thos e who died at the hand sof American supported and financed terrorism.
Sarge at 10:46 PM JST - 5th March

"Sir Edward Kennedy"

I've heard everything now.

"He is not entitled to use the honorific "Sir."

Then what good is the knighthood?

rollonarte ( 10:50am ) - Har!

Taka313: "Jealousy is an ugly emotion."

Har!
Bento at 11:13 PM JST - 5th March

All ulstermen will be incredulous with this news..yet more confirmation that political power is disseminated through the barrel of a gun.I hate sychophants and i am very much afraid that the previous two UK prime ministers are past masters in that most anal of arts. Of course it may be a very subtle british revenge plot..try and knock him off while vulnerably ill with a shock of unbelievable proportions."