That is a moron alcoholic debauchery socked chauvinist. Figures you would Idolize him while hypocritically preaching values and morals out the other half of your mouth.

Ha! Brilliant.

HA!

This is an interesting sentiment V. Aren't many unable to distinguish the extent of any condition without the experience of something else to compare and contrast it with, however? By the same logic as this sentiment, does the same contemporary person need to be told when their freedom and independence is very limited or restricted?

Truth .

Sort of like the US being abroad and deciding that invading the middle east seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do ?

Not in this case. As I said to one of your European counterparts, if we need advice on how to fall to Nazis we'll ask for your opinion.

Very good someone needs to say that to Piers Morgan.

Why can't a course be mandatory ? Guns already ARE regulated , the real issue is about modification of current regulations to fine tune them . No one is trying to take away rights of deserving citizens ...

The problem is that "progressive gun control" is as well defined as "assault weapon" or "comprehensive (insert topic) reform".

I called the cops on a meth cooker and drug seller the cops came and did nothing, a cop lives in the house. You call 911, I'll defend myself.

its already happened here.

Your right, until this election after hearing the Republicans, who hate the black, the women, the poor, the old and everyone on SS and Medicare. Now I do believe it could happen if a Republican got into Office.

You forgot to mention - American genocide of Native Americans: over 60,000,000 killed so far, and it ain't over yet, so it has been happening for over 200 years in the USA.

Amen! This, is merely a pebble in the pond of such atrocities, but one that marred the alleged ethos and credo of the U.S. Government at it's beginning. It was commercially inspired and motivated, as was our very constitution, in part, from their beginnings. It reveals the self centeredness and duplicity of human nature, and even more so of larger groups of humans, that civilizing has only been able to partially curb, but never eliminate.

I didn't forget that we live on a stolen continent at the expense of Native Americans. That is exactly what I meant when I said it has already happened here.

I was only quoting the article, and do you deny there are any American terrorists in your country? The only "next Hitler" I can see in Europe is the USA which had little to nothing to do with saving European asses, as you would know if you had any knowledge of the actual history of WWII. We owe our asses saved to the USSR.

I am minding my own business, dearie, your delusions notwithstanding.

Where was your Communist Savior when we took the Beach at Normandy?

The Normandy landing was not pivotal in ending the war. At that time, the USSR was fighting the 157 German divisions that were in the Soviet Union.

"...we don't like the way you.... Europeans think and conduct yourselves..."

Which particular directions of European thought and which particular forms of European conduct do you disapprove of, hombre?

"We owe our asses saved to the USSR"
Indeed we do.

"surrender mentality"?

Please explain.

disarmament of the public, unhealthy worship of monarchy, how easily half of you capitulated with Hitler and the Nazis... need more?

see my above response to your particularly the part about capitalization with Nazis.

Shit Russia was getting its ass kicked too. In fact Stalin was pissed Roosevelt took so long to kick off the invasion because the Russians were loosing a lot of troops compared to the Nazis. Probably because they couldn't supply more than one gun per two men. Real sustainable fighting force.

Where in the world did you get that trash?

From her Stalin worship.

The only reason that they speak English is because of the USA.

They hate to be reminded of it when they are lecturing us about our barbarity.

They need to be looking at South Africia.

That is total nonsense.

Wrong, being aware of our own past barbary, we simply are appalled at the ongoing barbary your country is practicing and what is happening to your country and people like you. We are only trying to warn you.

More than Europe, it is the US which should be taking a close look at South Africa.

I do not think this point is made clear in the U.S. history books i read decades ago ... i learned of it later online actually . The comforting MYTH we are taught helps to hide a lot of flaws .... it is the hallmark of propaganda . If they wanted us to think for ourselves , we would know the truth . The kids of the 60s were taught like that , but the results of too much independent thought , caused to the controllers change , so , our propaganda came back .....

Every Country England has ruled, they have mistreated the people. Look at Ireland and Scotland, most Countries that England has ruled hates them. I can understand why after listening to Piers Morgan.

Maybe but the problems were created by the better then thou Brits.

Well, in all those countries I've been to which were previously ruled by the British, the people expressed only respect and admiration for the Brits, in spite of colonization. Go figure!

You are obviously confusing the Boers and the Brits.

Maybe they brain washed them, that is very shocking.

During WW2 we had the lend lease agreement, we also provided food and everything that England needed to survive. We had planes and Pilots in England prior to Dec 7th 1941. Without the USA England would have lost prior to Dec 41. Go farther back in WW1 we made the 303 Enfields that England fought with. The Intelligence Corps and the Pilots were the best group in England, If Hitler had of made one more attack he would have owned the air over England. The Radars were down and England had very few Planes after the Battle of Britain.

You may be right.

With all due respect, oldbanjo -- Scotland was never colonised by England.
The Union of Crowns occurred when a Scottish monarch ascended to the English throne.
The Union of Parliaments was basically a sell-out by bankrupt Scottish nobles, triggering widespread rioting.
Scotland has always retained its own completely separate and different legal system, education system, and church.
And, in fairness, it must also be said that the Scots were no innocents when it comes to Ireland -- they played as much a role (arguably even more) in the Plantation of Ulster as the English did.

The Lend-Lease agreement was a shameful act on the part of the USA - it sold thousands of out-dated vehicles and tanks and so on, relics from WWI, at an outrageously high price (which earned an incredibly high profit to the US) which practically ruined the UK. In fact, the last reimbursement payment made by the UK to the US was only a few years ago. In total, the US made some $647 billion in profit from that program.

I usually am.

My brainwashed statement had nothing to do with the War, it had to do with Colonization. The only way that Russia helped England was by Hitler splitting up his troups to fight two fronts. Hitler was winning till they went to Stalingrad. Russia lost many millions prior to that. This Professor likes Stallin and is rewriting History

Also the Professor did say that the US was providing equipment to Russia during the War.

I didn't realize that, I do know that the Scots hate England and the English Cops that I talked to while in Scotland hate the Scots. The person that I worked with for about 15 years was from Scotland. He would always say WE have no Queen.

Yes -- perhaps a little exaggeration there to boost national pride. I don't think anyone would deny they played an important role. But it's sometimes curious to see the US portrayed as single-handedly saving the whole of Europe. More curious still to see the vehemence triggered by anyone daring to challenge that view.

No, if you had paid attention, this professor does not like Stalin but renders onto Caesar. He is absolutely right and far from being the only historian who has noted the fact that the USSR basically won WWII. I know this fact threatens your illusory image of the US, but facts are facts, whether you like them or not.

Most Scots don't hate the British and don't want independence.

Yes, he did, but that wasn't the main subject. It is a short video and it is not centered on the Lend Lease Act and its financial consequences on the allied countries.

That's all the US had at that time. It was better than nothing until we could build better equip. Also we had to build a Plane in WW2 that could reach the Wolf Packs and destroy them, they nearly cost England the War.

No, you responded to my post where I wrote that I got my facts from my father, my mother, my brother and sister, and dozens of other WWII officer veterans. You implied that they were brainwashed, which was a total insult to these war heroes.

Russia didn't "help" England, it was far more involved in the war than was England. The USSR did win against Hitler. The Americans won against Japan and Mussolini, and the British won in North Africa.

This professor has not re-written History, neither does he like Stalin (as you would have noticed had you paid attention) - he, like numerous other Historians, is setting things straight based on actual facts.

There's much truth in your comments herein, despite how difficult it is for those who can't deal with the disillusionment of accepting it. However, Roosevelt was compelled to, and did, provide clandestine and covert assistance to the British before formally entering the war, over objections and roadblocks the Republicans (ironically) in Congress mounted.

My boss used to ask if I ever made a mistake, I would say that I did but no one in this building was smart enough to find them.

I do on occasion make mistakes, and I usually am the first one to point them out and apologize.

Well, fortunately, not all Scots hate England, and not all English hate the Scots.

I’m sorry to hear you met such nationalistic types. They’re not typical.

The Scottish independence movement (and the forthcoming referendum) isn’t based on ethnic or cultural issues, but on civic issues.

Basically, this is because the Scottish electorate has always traditionally voted quite far to the left of the English electorate (Scots like to point out that there are more giant pandas in Scotland than conservative MPs), and things have reached the point where the UK government is no longer seen to represent the interests of Scottish voters on a wide range of important issues that are controlled by Westminster, including energy policies, EU membership, the Euro, nuclear weaponry, healthcare, etc.
As for the "we have no queen" stance -- well, that's another matter entirely. Scotland is as divided on the issue of monarchy as England. Some want to keep it. Others don't. The official policy of the SNP at present is to retain the (shared) monarchy. But that's a bridge to be crossed later.

EDITED to remove "tuition fees" reference. Scotland's education system is separate (and free), but this a bone of contention in England.

The professor is using facts like Fox New uses. I have never insulted a War Hero Your father was in the most important job in England during the War. The Pilot was also. My comments are not in the right places.

You're right that most Scots don't hate the English -- but whether most of them want independence or not will be determined in the 2014 referendum. Opinion on that seems relatively evenly split at the moment. It could go either way, I think.

It did shock me when the English Police talked like they did about the people in Scotland, everyone heard it, almost like they were trying to start trouble. Just minutes ago my brother called me and he said that they don't hate each other, I guess it was just the people that I was around.

In my job I worked with Nuclear Reactors, you couldn't make mistakes. Not if you wanted your job.

My answers to you are not in the right places, from now own I will reference what is stated, then answer. I'm slow on this computer I sure hate to have to do more writing.

In that case, I'm sure you'll be able to provide incontrovertible empirical facts to prove it. Good luck!

I must say that shocks me too. You’d think that any police officer transferred to serve in another region of the UK should be vetted for such prejudiced views.

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, D Day was still pivotal in winning the War when we did!

I know you like to think that, but you are mistaken.

We were in a Hotel, bar area, at a table, they were load and everyone in the room heard them. They were in uniform, I've never seen anyone do that in my life. The World is made up of all kinds of people.

Obviously, you don't have to respond to this if you feel it might compromise your privacy, but I'd be really curious to know what city this happened in. (At least, I assume it was a city and not some rural area).

... when "WE" did...

Shouldn't we all just be grateful for the successful outcome of a team effort, and not start a new pissing contest about whose contribution weighed most?

You better get back to elementary school and study some history. If Hitler had not attacked the USSR, by the time we got to Normandy, we would have been wiped out.

Dunoon, Scotland, I don't mind telling you. It's hard to believe what they said about the Scotish people.

I've been retired just over 20 years, it was around 8 or 10 before I retired. It's hard for me to put a date, I did a lot of traveling back then, Guam, Scotland, Spain, Israel, Nova Scotia and Italy, I went to Spain four times and Italy three times.

Wow. That's even worse. Dunoon is a very small town. I was thinking it might have been somewhere more urban such as Glasgow. Now Glasgow, I could imagine. But what police chief in their right mind would send such bigots to a wee place like Dunoon? That's a recipe for trouble -- especially on the west coast.

I thought they were trying to cause trouble, but no one said anything. They were not drunk and I'm not even sure that they were drinking. Everywhere I ever went I would ask questions and see how people lived in the different Countries, and everyone was friendly, this was the only time that I saw anything like this. These two considered the people there to be dirt/filth everything they said was bad, and they didn't explain why they had said that. That's the only time we saw the Police there. The next day my boss, a girl that came with us and I were invited to a dance in walking distance from there, by a group of old women. We went to the dance the next evening and had a good time. Everyone was as nice as they could be. Most of my trips were three to four weeks.

No doubt policemen, if on duty, were not drunk. I think your experience of the rest of the evening with colleagues/friends was definitely more representative of the situation.

The US has allows responsible citizen's legal ownership guns. There are gun control laws already on the books that are not stopping mass shootings. The reality is that the genie has long been out of the bottle, a gun ban would not take all of the guns off the street and total gun confiscation would not only be logistically difficult, expensive but also literally impossible.

Plus, Americans can point to current day Chicago as an example of why strict gun control not only doesn't work, but is also dangerous for law abiding citizens.

And also, the reason America is going down is largely due to corrupt leadership.

The USA is going down due to liberalism not the exercise of civil rights, personal responsibility and the proclivity toward self defense. Just a little backward aren't you.

self defence is good for country like somalia, not for a country so called civilised like USA!

What do you call "responsible" when guns are easily bought of a Wall mart, any pawn shop or online.

What do you call "responsible" with allowing anyone to own a bushmaster, many extra capacity charger and hundreds of rounds, this is insanity, a call to violence, nothing else.

one thing we agree, NRA is a big corrupter, that's the only reason guns are so easy to get nowadays, nothing nationalist, nothing honourable, a greedy and disgraceful detournment of teh 2nd amendments

Allowing the gun to run freely as todays is helping another man to kill our kids

How the fuck do you have the gall to say this while I, a raging Liberal has fought tooth and nail against these fearful foreign interlopers. This is not a right left issue. Unite with me in this or expose your partisan agenda at the detriment of OUR nation.