I send this off-list as it is not related. * John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> [2021-08-21 09:42]: > Hello Akira, > > Whilst I do agree with the general sentiment of your message, I think it > is going to have little effect partly because of its length and partly > because many of the facts you provide are wrong. To take just a few examples: > > 1. It's a distortion of the truth to say that the US "waged a war". What > actually happened was they declared indepence after Great Britain (NOT > "England") rejected their "No taxation without representation" demand. > It was Great Britain which sent their forces to the colonies, and not the > other way around.
Is it so? And I can tell I know little of American history, but at least I was reading comics related to the history. Does this reference on Wikipedia relates to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War where it says: "The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or the American War of Independence, was initiated by delegates from thirteen American colonies of British America in Congress against Great Britain over their objection to Parliament's taxation policies and lack of colonial representation." Now I can be sure that if those taxation policies would be favorable to Americans that they would never want to be independent. And now when US is independent they enacted even worse taxation policies than UK has currently. LOL! > 2. George III was by no means an absolute monarch. The monarchy > had ceased to be "absolute" more than a century earlier > with the Triennial Acts of 1641. Some historians would argue this > had happened even earlier with Magna Carta in 1215. Legally or practically? > 3. I don't think the fall of Afghanistan took all the world by suprise. > Personally I thought it inevitable once the US pulled out. Perhaps I > didn't think it would happen so fast, but there was no doubt in my mind > that it would happen. Excluding you, the majority of the world is terrified! It is huge loss for US and loss for the world and human rights. Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/