miltiades wrote:I have always loved the Brits, the real Brits and nit necessarily the British passpirt hilders, after alk a substantial part of my family are English. From my early days in the UK, way back in the very early 60s, I made a concerted effort to undersrand the English, I say English and not British as the two are so far apart. There are Asian Brits, Arab Brits, Pakistani Brits, in fact
the descriptive word British holds no true defining meaning for me.
Therefore I shall refer to the natives of the UK as English, Welsh, Scottish, NOT Irish.
I feel my self as part British, I love the country and have supported the nation throughout my life in the UK.
Having said this let me also state categorically that My support has never been unconditional, when my late father in law called me a terrorist and threw me out of his house I did nit just simply lay down and take it. Britain had no right to occupy my birth country against the wishes of the iverwhelming majority of my compatriots, the Cypriot people.
They, the British had no right to deny my nation the right to determine its own destiny. They, the establishment have through ages manipulated their very own people. They still do now, by the establishment I mean the succesive governments, they lie to the people because they know that the very vast majority of the people are easily indoctrinated, deceived, used. The battle of Britain was noble the battle of occupied people the world over was ...terrorism. By nature the Brits are gullible, not politically inclined to question " propaganda".
The Brits had no fuck7ng right to occupy my birth country, ni right to enter ny house and bash my father up, no right to deny my people their right to chart their iwn destiny. The Brits designed our " independence" they knew it would not work, they planned it so it would not work.
It will take a Cypriot leader with balls to politely asje them to clear off, tell them that since you are not supporting our sovereignty, guarantors my arse , take your troops and ti put it in an English fashion, fuck off out of our lands. You have contributed fuck all to our security, you remained silent when Turkey violated our sovereignty, you persistently renain silent, yet you made your selves " guarantors " if our independence.
Support us or fuck off !!
In an ideal world no one has a right to occupy but that isn't realistic either especially in that era.
And yet, if it wasn't for the Brits we would either be still occupied by the Turks or the Russians. That would not have been very good either.
And as for your Father in law. It's understandable that he would throw you out of his house. I would have done the same and my daughter would have had to walk over my dead body to be with you. No friggin way would I have let that occur under such circumstances. In fact, this Father in Law of yours and British Officer who was stationed in Cyprus actually sounds far more reasonable than I could have ever been in a similar scenario. And this is of a man that lived decades earlier in more conservative times. If I was in his shoes, I would have had you by the nuts. You wouldn't have come back to the house for fear of your life.
But that is the difference between a polite Englishman and a stubborn Cypriot Donkey. Even though this British Officer eventually came round and let you in his house despite you helping to kill his soldiers, is a major step forward on his part as a sincere Gentleman, which is something I doubt I could do under such circumstance.
