International Coalition for British Reparations Encounters Hostility At Irish and Scottish Heritage Festival
Philadelphia, PA – March 20, 2007 – Recently a small camera crew visited the Irish and Scottish Music Festival at Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Convention Center to speak with attendees regarding how they were planning on spending their $8,350 British Reparations check.
For twenty minutes, charming people of Irish and Scottish heritage basked in the spotlight of their 15 minutes and used their camera time to share their exciting dreams of financial relief from their English-caused real-world debt.
When asked what he would do with his check, one of the attendees jovially replied," I’d buy a house," his comic optimism surely a tribute to the spirit of Celtic ingenuity and an example of the sunny outlook that enabled his ancestors to live next to and under the pompous manicured big toe of the English empire for so many centuries.
But the jolly mood so often displayed by the happy Leprechauns that sprung forth from the Irish and Scottish hillsides was shattered when, less than thirty minutes into the interviewing, ICBR volunteers were accosted by a man who claimed to be the organizer of the festival.
During a friendly interview with a shamrock-toting senior citizen, the irate organizer slapped the handheld microphone and tried to wrestle it away from the interviewer. With an entourage of kilted heavies in tow, he proceeded to push the interviewer out of the hotel and into the parking lot, screaming menacingly all the way.
"Get the (expletive) out of my room," he shouted while simultaneously shoving the interviewer as his somber-faced assistants stood excitedly behind him, ready to pounce.
In the parking lot the ICBR crew was left to ponder what part of their friendly, upbeat interviews – all conducted in the spirit of good faith and reconciliation – struck such a sour note with the organizer. Unfortunately, due to the hostile, thuggish brevity of the hosts and the nearly innumerable crimes of the English against the Irish and Scottish people, the specific cause of his hostility to the ICBR may never be known. Perhaps he was planted firmly in the pocket of the Queen...
But we did learn this: The Irish and Scottish festival is no place to discuss Irish and Scottish history.
Check out the video below (we had to add Lucky Charms marshmallows over their faces to conceal their identities.)
About The International Coalition for British Reparations:
The International Coalition for British Reparations (ICBR) is a think tank of British foreign policy headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where America's split with Britain began in 1776. Founded on July 4, 2006, we have members all over the world.
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