UN to US: Give it back to the natives.

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Re: UN to US: Give it back to the natives.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 05, 2012 10:46 am

I wouldn't say "Dead easy" even by comparison. Israel is new at this game, so the Palestinians have only be squabbling with them for sixty four years. Google "Trail of Tears".
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Post by FBM » Sat May 05, 2012 10:58 am

They've both been on the wrong side of systematic, gov't-backed genocide. I'd be slow about giving them any more shit than they've already had to put up with.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 05, 2012 11:05 am

FBM wrote:They've both been on the wrong side of systematic, gov't-backed genocide.
The Book is the guide for the people what done that to 'em.
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Post by FBM » Sat May 05, 2012 11:08 am

Do I understand that?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 05, 2012 11:12 am

FBM wrote:Do I understand that?
The Bible supposedly guides the hands of the people who have done nasty things to the Native Americans and the Palestinians.
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Post by FBM » Sat May 05, 2012 11:17 am

Oh. I thought it was about money.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 05, 2012 11:18 am

FBM wrote:Oh. I thought it was about money.
Nope, ethics.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat May 05, 2012 11:20 am

What would Sean Penn do?
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Post by FBM » Sat May 05, 2012 11:25 am

Make a bad movie about it?
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat May 05, 2012 11:27 am

Technically, North America - it all belongs to Britain
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Post by FBM » Sat May 05, 2012 11:28 am

But Britain belongs to Halliburton, so...
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat May 05, 2012 11:29 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Technically, North America - it all belongs to Kennewick Man
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat May 05, 2012 11:30 am

Horseshoe crabs have been around for a long time. If they get themselves a good lawyer....
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Re: UN to US: Give it back to the natives.

Post by Warren Dew » Sat May 05, 2012 11:11 pm

FBM wrote:I'm all for doing the right thing wrt the the native peoples of N. America, but does anyone else see the potential for a slippery slope in this? I mean, there's a lot of the U.S. and Canadia that was taken by very shady means...
Namely, all of the U.S. and Canada?

I think homo sapiens should all return to Africa, and give Europe back to the neanderthals and Asia back to homo erectus.

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