The Irish... And Who Didn't 'Help' Them Succeed

Another empty dodge....

You must be trying to portray the method as being a random selection of quotes, sources and linked material.....
...because you are a congenital liar.

But you know it is the result of a carefully constructed thesis leading to an undeniable conclusion.

As you have found.
Your posts are at best, tedious

Random deceptive quotes that do nothing to support your point of view.



I already said you are a congenital liar.....

...what made you imagine you had to prove it?
Everything you know about the Irish came off a Lucky Charms box

?



Why would you say that?

Because if she can't cut and paste, she really can't form any opinion


You might want to look up 'opinion.'


Or...you can continue to be a habitual liar.
 
Another empty dodge....

You must be trying to portray the method as being a random selection of quotes, sources and linked material.....
...because you are a congenital liar.

But you know it is the result of a carefully constructed thesis leading to an undeniable conclusion.

As you have found.
Your posts are at best, tedious

Random deceptive quotes that do nothing to support your point of view.



I already said you are a congenital liar.....

...what made you imagine you had to prove it?
Everything you know about the Irish came off a Lucky Charms box

?



Why would you say that?

Because if she can't cut and paste, she really can't form any opinion






You're not making sense.
 
Your posts are at best, tedious

Random deceptive quotes that do nothing to support your point of view.



I already said you are a congenital liar.....

...what made you imagine you had to prove it?
Everything you know about the Irish came off a Lucky Charms box

?



Why would you say that?

Because if she can't cut and paste, she really can't form any opinion


You might want to look up 'opinion.'


Or...you can continue to be a habitual liar.

You don't have opinions......you post the opinions of others
 
An interesting coda to this thread.....

"Boston Mob Boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Murdered at West Virginia Prison

Bulger, 89, was convicted in 2013 of being complicit in 11 murders in Massachusetts, Florida and Oklahoma.

His attorney, Hank Brennan, who tried to appeal Bulger’s life sentence all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, declined comment pending notification by the Bureau of Prisons.

Bulger arrived at USP Hazelton yesterday. He was found unresponsive at 8:20 this morning, according to a statement from the Bureau of Prisons, which provided no other details.

“Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff. Mr. Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston County Medical Examiner,” the statement said.

BOP notified the FBI and Bulger’s death is now under investigation,

“No staff or inmates were injured, and at no time was the public in danger,” BOP stressed.

The facility houses 1,277 maximum-security inmates and is located in Bruceton Mills.

The Herald reported last week he had been relocated from a penitentiary in Florida to one in Oklahoma, which often serves as a temporary stop for inmates in transit."

James 'Whitey' Bulger dead, had been moved to W. Va.
 
And equally interesting was this comment following the story of Bulger's death, from the Morning Insurrection:


"Assuming anyone in the FBI can conduct a valid investigation involving Mr. Bolger, they need to ask the question : “Who the HELL made the decision to put him in with the general population?”.

“And how much did their bank account grow recently?”

Considering how many FBI agents were complicit with his crimes – and how many from the Boston office (cough -Mueller- cough) who SHOULD have known pled ignorance/incompetence when it came to tracking interaction with this high-profile “informant”, perhaps this is one instance where US Marshals should be given jurisdiction, rather than the FBI or Corrections Officers?"



FBI officer went to prison for aiding Bulger's criminal accomplishments.....

"John Joseph Connolly Jr. (born August 1, 1940)[2] is a former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang." John Connolly (FBI) - Wikipedia


....Mueller????
 
Today, in consideration of Saint Patrick's Day, a look at the journey of the Irish in America.

The Irish were the first ethnic minority in American cities, and their history shows the classic pattern of new comers to the urban economy, and society. Starting at the very bottom of the urban occupational ladder, with the men as laborers and the woman as maids. Housing was far worse than urban slums today. Thomas Sowell, "Ethnic America," chapter one.

"The French sociologist, Gustave de Beaumont, visited Ireland in 1835 and wrote: "I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland." Slaves in the United States had a greater life expectancy than peasants in Ireland." The West Awake: Barry Clifford: The Democide Of Ireland In The 1800's




1. I wonder if any saw the 2015 film "Black Mass," based on the 2001 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. Pretty good flic....but couldn't show the depth of the corruption....
So I picked up a copy of Howie Carr's book, "The Brothers Bulger," same topic.

It is the story of arch criminal, serial killer, and gangland boss, 'Whitey' Bulger, and his brother, political boss, Billy Bulger, in Boston.


But, today being Saint Patrick's Day, this is not about Whitey...but about the Irish.
In the tale, Carr recounts a history of the journey of the Irish, fighting to succeed in a new land, and doing so on their own.
By that, I mean without the "help" of the Liberals, as that "help" was applied to African-Americans.


2. Ann Coulter writes: " It was the misfortune of black Americans that they were just on the verge of passing through the immigrant experience when damaging ideas about welfare and the lenient attitude about crime took hold. It could have happened to the Italians, Germans, Jews or Irish, but luckily for them, there were no Liberals around to “help” when they arrived.


a. In fact, black Americans were doing better in individual pursuits than many immigrants. Barone compared their American journey to the Irish: “Both rise smartly in hierarchies (government bureaucracies, the military) but haven't fared as well in free-market commerce.” http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/941114/archive_013670.htm




3. As to the Bulgers: "Their father, James, was raised in Bosnon's North End, where many of the city's Irish immigrants initially settled,....the Bulgers were poor. As they grew up, all of them, even Whitey, would seek jobs with the government. The Bulgers distrusted all types of private enterprise, perhaps because of a railroad accident in which their father, a third-generation laborer, caught his arm between two boxcars and had to have it amputated.

A straw boss explained that a one-armed laborer was of no further use and fired him. The railroad calculated the wages due him- up to the time he had fallen, mangled, to the cinder bed- paid him, and forgot him.

James Bulger Sr.'s predicament was a common-enough predicament in those days. Many Irish politicians wee raised in homes where the father was either dead or maimed after an industrial accident.

At that time, there were no disability pensions, no workman's comp, no doles of any sort. Life insurance was for the wealthy. If you were unable to work, your family was consigned to a life of poverty."
Carr, Op. Cit.


a. "After the accident, the Bulgers drifted from one apartment to another in Dorchester until 1938, when they heard about a new public housing project in South Boston called Old Colony Harbor, the second such public housing project in the nation." Ibid.



4. "Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum-clearance projects...".

Led by the Housing Division of the PWA and headed by architect Robert Kohn, the initial, Limited-Dividend Program aimed to provide low-interest loans to public or private groups to fund the construction of low-income housing..... between 1934 and 1937 the Housing Division, now headed by Colonel Horatio B. Hackett, constructed fifty-two housing projects across the United States, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Atlanta's Techwood Homes opened on 1 September 1936 and was the first of the fifty-two opened." Public housing in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Poverty, the open animosity of earlier immigrants....."No Irish Need Apply".....

Sounds familiar.
That's why we Irish started our own communities
 

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