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Re: An armed society...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:42:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> This is the traditional way that Britain destroyed indiginous populations the
> world over. I read once that Kenyans started committing suicide only after • the
> colonial Brits introduced currency and made many populations of happy people
> broke. Virtually every place that Great Brittain stole from the aboriginal
> peoples, they destroyed them economically. (I'm sure if I'm wrong or
> overgeneralizing, Lindsay can pop in to smack me around.)
Dunno about LFB, but I think the destruction of the Aussie aboriginals was more
related to power & bigotry than economics.
ROSCO
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| (...) In a sense, they're the same thing. You can't occupy land that someone else is living on. But the introduction of money taxes-- thus requiring colonial peoples to earn money, and thereby alien- ating them from the land and subsistence--was the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) They were. And in general, one injun vs. one settler and I'd bet on the injun. The problem is that they were locally massively outnumbered. (And not organized on the larger scale, of course.) (...) This is the traditional way that Britain (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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