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Thread #124364   Message #2761083
Posted By: Paul Davenport
06-Nov-09 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: England My England
Subject: RE: England My England
Sorry Les, but as a native of Hull, brought up on Wilberforce from a tender age you need to understand this simple but horrifying fact. When Wilberforce proposed his Bill for Abolition of the Slave trade there were 10,000 people per year being traded as slaves off the coast of West Africa. Today there are 100, 000 per year (mostly children). Don't blame the English for that. By the way we abolished Slavery by Bill of Parliament, the Americans had to fight a staggeringly bloody Civil War which still did not achieve that end. Brazil banned slavery as late as the 1880s but I don't hear you slagging them off.
I really don't give a toss about peoples stance on their country or nationality but I'm heartily sick of living in a society where extreme views on anything from a neurotic minority force the majority of decent people into a corner. We objected to Apartheid in South Africa but suddenly we have fear of terrorists, paedophiles, alcohol abusers, benefit fraudsters and any other minority you can think of, ruling our lives and forcing legislation upon us which does nothing to protect but everything to inhibit freedom and strangle the healthy growth of culture and tradition. Why aren't you all objecting to that?