I'm ashamed of my country

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:08:48 GMT, "jeffc" wrote:


wrote in message
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And anyone who asks another person, child or otherwise, if stealing is
wrong and
interprets an answer of anything other than "yes," particularly a
rationalization, as a sign of "ethical development," is in need a bunch of
ethical development themselves. Stealing is wrong. Period.

You're a douchebag. Period.

Hmmm...lessee - so my sole purpose in life would be servicing pussy...eh, I can
live with it...

I just sent my DNA swabs in for the National Graphic Genographic project.
When I
get the results back I'll know who to blame for everything thats happened to
my ancestors, To start with I am going to sue the state of Ohio for the
Gnadenhutten massacre, Texas for Governor Runnels running great great
grandpa out of Texas and who know s what else.
Only a hundred bucks and I may enough information to blame all of history
for being what I am now.

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/


"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:29:10 GMT, rw
wrote:

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I agree that it's not productive to blame dead people or their
ancestors, but it's not good to sweep history under rug just because
it's ugly and doesn't fit the myths of our country's origins.

Quite correct. It's the tendency for the blame to fall on the present
people that I've got an objection to. Yes, there is blame, but it
should stay with the persons in the past who earned it. I consider
that this generation has enough present stuff to blame itself (or the
opposing political party or whatever) for without letting the past
drool guilt on us.


I do find the intentional and accidental harm done to the American
Indians (North, South, and Central Americas) well worthy of
documentation and as fascinating as I do the whole Euro take over of
as much of the world as possible for the time from about 1400 to about
1900 (and a bit farther in some case) by arms and religion.

Of course we're left with the fact that those past excesses led to
misery that's still present.
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r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.
Really.

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:24:52 GMT, "BJ Conner"
wrote:

I just sent my DNA swabs in for the National Graphic Genographic project.
When I
get the results back I'll know who to blame for everything thats happened to
my ancestors, To start with I am going to sue the state of Ohio for the
Gnadenhutten massacre, Texas for Governor Runnels running great great
grandpa out of Texas and who know s what else.
Only a hundred bucks and I may enough information to blame all of history
for being what I am now.

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/


Fascinating. What an interesting idea.
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r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.
Really.

rw wrote:

That's very cute, cyli, but there was an organized, political movement
to exterminate the Indians. It began on day 1, when Columbus landed, but
reached perhaps its full realization (in the US, at least) with
President Andrew Jackson and the perfectly named Indian Removal Act.

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