A Heart-Warming Sight for a Southerner

The Crimea is now an independent nation after more than 95% of her citizens voted peacefully to leave the gangster government imposed violently on the Ukraine by agents of the American Empire and the European Union:

http://rt.com/news/crimea-referendum-results-official-250/

Predictably, President Obama and other leaders of the so-called ‘free world’, who are behind the turmoil in the Ukraine, are having alternating fits of rage and of hypocrisy as their plan to surround, isolate, and conquer Russia falls apart:

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/17/290757432/obama-says-u-s-will-never-recognize-crimeas-secession-vote

May we in the States of the South have enough manly courage to follow the Crimea’s path, and that of our kinfolk in Ireland, who separated themselves from the British Empire in the early 20^th century - an event brought to mind as we honor the memory of the blessed and holy St Patrick of Ireland, who enlightened our Irish forefathers with the Christian faith in the 5^th century:

http://oca.org/saints/lives/2014/03/17/100821-st-patrick-the-bishop-of-armagh-and-enlightener-of-ireland

--Father Andrew has a good commentary on the Crimea’s secession here:

http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/free-ukrainians-reject-western-colonialist-junta-in-kiev/