Re: Feds reading this list, Jim Bell, and threats

[David Gilchrist <dgilx@mindspring.com>]

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At 01:33 AM 4/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
>The Limey Apologist said:
>> > At 1:51 PM -0600 4/4/97, null@myemail.net wrote:
>> them as a sovereign nation that was the spark to the flame. Try
>> reading "Lies my teacher told me" sometime.
>> Given that the American revolution institutionalised slavery and
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>	I think slavery was an institution long before the White Man
>came to the New World. If I remember correctly, slavery wasn't outlaws
>in england until long after the United States was a soverign contry.
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>> lead to the theft of Indian land, and the French revolution the murder of 
>
>	If the indians didn't believe that _they_ owned the land, and infact
>didn't have the concept of land ownership, how could it have been "stolen"?

The concept is that of preservation and use by all.  The government denied
the Indian the use of the land through eminent domain, encroachment or force
which is the government's way of taking, not stealing, what it wants:  a
distinction without a difference. I agree with your other points. 

>
>> People are not fit judges of their own cause. The civil war was started
>> by the South who believed that the North might infringe their "right"
>> to own others as property.
>
>	Actually, the "symptom" was slavery, the disease was federal 
>intrusion into the area of states rights. 
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