kendall 21 Dec 03 - 02:31 PM

"We learned invasion and exploitation from the masters, our English relatives."

Really? and here's us non-Americans being told to believe what great documents your Constitution and Bill of Rights are. How enlightened they were and how they broke the mold of the times when our two nations seperated.

What was it exactly that "forced" the newly emergent United States to pursue it's policy of slavery until 1865 where a civil war was required to impose that state in the USA (after all the old country implemented the abolishion in 1807 and completed it by 1830 i.e. within 54 years of your declaration of independence). Having abolished slavery it then took damn near another 100 years for those you freed to "win" their civil rights (Yes the ones painstakingly scribed out in 1776)   

What was it that "forced" successive American administrations to break damn near every single treaty signed with the American Indian Nations?

The answer in both instances has got nothing to do with your former "masters" - the matter lay with the respective US Governments of the time - accept that they take responsibility for what path they chose to take.

Ebbie 21 Dec 03 - 02:39 PM

Ref the above with regard to Slavery - as usual you are talking complete and utter hogwash.