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Entry: Endstation Moscow Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/endstation_moscow#12770 Post contents: In reply to "the owl" who said: "Mr. Ball, it is too bad that Mr. Foy can’t seem to remove that mote from your eye." ...ah, I think your perspective is a BIT distorted. Because, as a lover and admirer (and grandson) of the British Empire, MY eyes have very vast perspective, much larger perspective than petty and aggrieved Irish-Americans like the (mostly truthful and honourable) Mr Foy. Just look at the trends of history, for thousands of years, and then ask yourself, WHO are the MOST willfully blinded and willfully blinkered peoples (and/or nations/nationalities) in the world? The most willfully blinkered, most willfully full of hatred, peoples and nations are NOT those who identify with the Roman Empire, or with the Austrian Empire, or with the British Empire. No, no, the most WILLFULLY BLINKERED men, full of nationalist, superstitious hatred, are those like, well, like Patrick Foy who is (in my opinion) obsessed by his ancestral Irish hatred of Britain. You see, Mr "the owl", as a grandson of Britain, I have no grievances against any other nations (except perhaps against Germany in circa 1940), and the only "mote" in my eye comes from the BOMBS which the F---ing GERMANS DROPPED UPON MY ANCESTRAL LAND in 1940, when Hitler was a close friend of, and collaborator with, bloody Stalin. That's not a "mote" in my eye. That's a shared ancestral memory (including memories of my father who fought in that war), of how Germany under f---ing Hitler STARTED THE WAR! If you want to call that historical truth a "mote in John Ball's eye," then I say to you, Britain was RIGHT, and STILL IS RIGHT, for how Britain "sent the whirlwind" to Germany, after Germany stupidly sewed the wind when Germany began to bomb London in 1940. The "mote" is in the eyes of everyone who dishonestly pretends that Hitler's Germany did not require total surrender to its enemies in WW II. And I will never, never, never compromise about that essential truth. And I say so, as an old Philadelphian whose ancestry goes all the way back to George Washington's grandfather (Ball) in Virginia in the 1640s. As one of the closest remaining desendants of my cousin (first cousin eight times removed) George Washington (who had no children), who was the son of my remote Aunt, Mary Ball, I do not take these things lightly. So I say to Mr "the owl", who reproached me on this thread, I tell you: "SIR! Please refrain from making assumptions about me, unless and until you know who I am." John Ball Sent at: 2008 09 07