Teddy Gets Knighted for Supporting Terrorists

Not content to have merely fouled up the USA. Teddy Kennedy has also caused trouble in Northern Ireland for people who don't need any more trouble. Now the Queen is giving him his knighthood.

Gordon Brown sparked fury today by awarding an honorary knighthood to U.S. senator Edward Kennedy, who has been accused in the past of being an IRA sympathiser.
Conservative MPs and Peers condemned as 'inappropriate' the decision to make a man closely linked to the Irish nationalist movement a 'Sir'.

But the senator - descended from immigrants from County Wexford - angered Loyalists during the Troubles with his sympathies to the Republican movement.
In 1971, he compared the British military presence in Northern Ireland to America's unpopular involvement in Vietnam.

Teddy, you and your fellow travelers got your wish in Vietnam. You abandoned the freedom-loving people of South Vietnam to a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship that has no respect for human rights nor human life at all. I hope you don't get your way in Northern Ireland.

He also called for the immediate withdrawal of the Army, claiming that Protestants who could not accept a united Ireland 'should be given a decent opportunity to go back to Britain'.
Lord Tebbit, the ex-Tory Cabinet minister whose wife was confined to a wheelchair after suffering terrible injuries when IRA terrorists bombed the party's conference hotel in Brighton in 1984, said the honorary knighthood was 'wholly inappropriate'.

He said: 'Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the IRA but he certainly leaned towards extreme Republicanism. He was certainly no friend of the UK.
'This honour is wholly inappropriate on the basis of the sleaze attached to him after the crash at Chappaquiddick, let alone his support for nationalism in Northern Ireland. It cheapens the whole honours system.

Hey Teddy, how about you and your fellow Sinn Fein/IRA sympathizers be given a decent opportunity to go back to Ireland and stay there?

In 1979, the IRA murdered Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Queen's husband Prince Phillip, by detonating a bomb aboard his boat. The bomb also killed fourteen year-old Nicholas Knatchbull, fifteen year-old Paul Maxwell, and 83 year-old Baroness Brabourne. Sinn Fein/IRA terrorist leader Gerry Adams, pictured above with Teddy, had this to say about the murders:

In my opinion, the IRA achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland.