Harry wrote:
> No raping!

The term "land rape" doesn't refer to raping.  Although that was also done.


> Simply landless people trying to find free land to live on.

The land was already inhabited.  That's why you forced the survivors into
reservations.


> The Indians had a few million in a continent the size of Europe.

You took their best lands and paved over their cemeteries for supermarkets
and parking lots.


> The millions of Europeans who emigrated were landless serfs of monopoly
> landholders. (Fewer than 3,000 held almost all the land of England.)

Why should millions of Indians pay with their life just because some Brits
and Irish can't shake off their top Predators?


> Things happened that were not pretty, but we can look back smugly from our
> comfortable armchairs and "tut-tut" with the clear perception of hindsight.

Would you say the same about the Holocaust?
The problem isn't armchairs but double standards.


> Had we been in North America at that time we would have probably acted the
> same way.

I wouldn't have been in North America in the first place.

Chris



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