Joel, please read and discuss the actual curriculum of the gun safety program if you want to attack it. It makes you look bad and we don't need that. We need you to look good. While collecting food for the poor at Milwaukee's West Washington Street St. Patrick's Church cannot be faulted, the spectacle of Milwaukee Irish Fest pretending to be interested in the tragedy of over a century and a half ago is just too much to behold. The pamphlet was written by Chris Fogarty which dealt with the tragedy, not as a famine caused by the failure of the potato crop, but as deliberate British genocide.
Famines occur when there is a general shortage of food.
There was no food shortage in Ireland. The Fogarty pamphlet cited every British Army regiment and naval vessel involved in seeing to it that the existing food supplies were shipped to Britain while 5.2 million Irish men, women and children starved to death or died because of illnesses related to hunger. Because the Fogarty's stood up for their First Amendment rights of free speech, Milwaukee policemen were called by the Irish Fest security people to prevent the Fogarty's from resuming their truth-telling activity. This caused them to have a very miserable over-night incarceration in one of Milwaukee's jails. In 1996, free speech and pamphleteering were allowed at Irish Fest.