--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> > wrote: > > > > > > And also this from a country that was one of the most > > brutally colonizers of other lands. Face it, Off, you > > don't have a moral leg to stand on if you're trying to > > claim that Britain is in some way morally superior to > > the US. Both countries have some very dark corners. >> > > Stop spouting your high school history brain washing Peter. > > Watch the recent movie "Bury my heart at wounded knee". > The reason the native americans went to Canada was to escape American > oppression. And Black Elk, the famous Shaman of the Lakota tribe, > called the Queen Victoria "Grandmother" because of British attempts > to protect the indians, and British laws to protect them in Canada. > > When your own war of independence broke out thousands upon thousands > of indians (and Americans, and American slaves) immediately moved to > Canada because they wanted protection by the British because they > knew the British protected them, whereas the Americans were despotic.
...and the British then proceeded to screw the blacks who moved to Canada. After promising them great land upon which to live and farm, they got the absolute worst land in Nova Scotia (where black communities still thrive over 200 years later, no thanks to the Crown). > > When your pilgrims (called puritan fundamentalists by the British) > came to America, they came to escape having to treat everyone as > equal, when they wanted to outcast, or even kill, anyone who was not > a convert to them. Queen Elizabeth of the time was strictly against > such despotic regimes (that is why Elizabeth at first, and the > British spent centuries fighting and winning against the Papist > regimes of France and Spain) > > Get an education. > > OffWorld >
