--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > << Glad that your country stopped its long history of colonial > > > oppression > > > > of the world dude.>> > > > > > > Watch the recent movie "Bury my heart at wounded knee". > > > > I read the book when I was in eighth grade. Some Americans have > more > > awareness of our flaws then you realize.>> > > I read it at about 17. > However, I remember why the Indians went to Canada (for British > protection), whereas you conveniently (as americans do)...do not > remember that part. > > > > Canada because they wanted protection by the British because they > > > knew the British protected them, whereas the Americans were > despotic. > > > > Conquered people get screwed. Right. Now they have casinos.>> > > > You obviously have never seen (as I have ) the abject poverty on the > largest reservation in the world - the Navajo reservation. Something > that would be an absolute outrage in Europe. We have poverty, but not > like you americans do in your reservations and ghettos. > > > > > 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) > > > > I don't doubt that. It was a fraction of the people in my great > country>> > > Which was founded by a traitorous insurgency against the British who > protected you from the Catholic despots of France and Spain and whose > soldiers died by the hundreds of thousands to protect you from these > viscious religious fanatic regimes ( and your traitorous founders > refused to help out in that by paying taxes and helping against the > Papist despots.) Then you JOINED the most oppressive regime, the > French, and that is when your little 'war of independence' > (our 'skirmish in the provinces') turned against the British when the > French joined in, so the British went off and defeated the French > Catholic despots, who if the British had not defeated, YOU CURTIS, > would be speaking French and living in a mono-religious regime run by > the Pope. > > OffWorld
Uh, I think you've got your history a little bass-ackwards, OffWorld. The British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham in what is now Quebec City in 1759. The U.S. War of Independence ended in 1776, 17 years later. Indeed, the British so angered the American "British" by abandoning English Common Law in Quebec after that victory in Quebec that this was one of the complaints registered to King George in the Declaration of Independence (see the "in a neighbouring province" reference).
