Brendy,

re: "For all British people who believe that their legislators can do no wrong, I extend my extreme pity. For they would willingly go into another's country at their government's behest, and try to subjugate"

Yup.

How to deal with the descendants? They didn't start it, but the fight continues. For example, I'm 4 to 6 generations in North America, descended entirely from variously oppressed cultures: Welsh, Scots, African. So when the First Nations want their land back, where do I go? Or do I stay and fight? I like to think that if the FN come to take back this part of the land, I'd say fine, it's yours, my ancestors bullied you out of it, this is the least I can do. If they felt accommodating perhaps they'd charge reasonable rent. Tough to swallow after years of paying a mortgage. Let's say I swallow and move...to where? Africa? Slave merchants didn't exactly keep track of where each unit of cargo used to live.

I don't mean to drift from the thread. I only mean to try my very best to understand what I've been reading within the context of my own experience.