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Re: Jacboties




I'm with ye laddie. Best to leave the skeletons i' th' close.
DH

At 06:50 PM 10/2/00 +0200, you wrote:
>I have  reread John, Dale and Rory postings.  I still find myself moved by
>the sadness and suffering that must have overcome the transported.  But
>still I feel a touch of pride in Caithness's actions. The very idea of an
>apology is an anathema to me.  How do you say I am sorry for brutalising
>your country. How do you say sorry for ending your way of life, abetted a
>medieval one. What do we, generations later, have the right to accept such
>an apology on those long dead.  I cannot justify any action by a
>grandstanding petty Parliament.  Dale is correct imperialistly twice we
>spread the British Empire across the world. Is it not the role of man to
>expand  his national interests?  Americas "sea to shinning sea" the Russian
>empire and others to numerous to mention.  Communication made it possible
>and now that we came communicate directly without goverment interference are
>we not in the position to reclaim the world.  This world was inherited from
>our forefathers it is on loan from our children it is to them we owe the
>correctness of our actions.
>
>Sinclair
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