I just recieved this. I'm to pissed off to respond right now. The peterr@.... sent it to me, forwarded to him by the Sandra... so you can reply to both of them. peace -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Nobbs IMA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:39 AM Subject: We apologise >.................................................SORRY..................... . >........................................................................... . >...................................... >..............AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY TO THE ABORIGINAL >POPULATION.......................................... > > >We apologise for giving you doctors and free medical care,which allows you >to survive and >multiply so that you can demand apologies. > >We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English language >and thus we >opened up to you the entire European civilisation, thought and enterprise. > >We feel that we must apologise for building thousands of homes for you, >which you have >vandalised and destroyed. > >We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you from >slaughtering one >another and using the unfortunate for good purposes. > >We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today feed >your people, >where before,you had the benefits of living off the land and starving during >droughts. > >We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace >the animal skins >you used before. > >We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between cities and >building cars so that you >no longer have to walk over harsh terrain. > >We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay the >instalments. > >We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere,whenever you want to >travel. > >We apologise for giving you and each and every member of your family $100 >and free travel to >attend an Aboriginal funeral. > >We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white people have >to pay. > >We apologise for giving you interest free loans. > >We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including gold and >diamonds which you >never used and had no idea of their value. > >We apologise for developing Ayers Rock and Kakadu, and handing them over to >you so that you >get all the money. > >We apologise for allowing taxpayers money being paid towards daughter's >weddings, $8000 >each daughter. > >We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your 250 000 people >which is $48000 per >Aborigine man,woman and child. > >We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your welfare, >Medicare, education, etc >to the tune of $1.2 billion each year. > >We apologise for you having to approach the Aboriginal Affairs Department to >verify the above >figures. For the trouble you will have identifying the 'Uncle Tom's' in your >own community who >are getting richer and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty. > >We do apologise. We really do. > >We humbly beg for your forgiveness for all the above sins. We are only too >happy to take back >all the above and return you to the paradise of the outback whenever you are >ready. >We apologise that the Europeans beat the Japanese to this country. > > >********************************************************************** >This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they >are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]. > >********************************************************************** > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
