Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "We're a previously persecuted minority, dammit, treat us special, we > deserve the land you have worked hard for. even though we sit on our asses."
New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States all have some similarity vis-a-vis native populations. But what you quote above sounds a little like you think "We stole this land fair and square". I mean, if the native peoples did in fact own the land, then it's theirs, and they are allowed to do nothing with it if they choose, and there is something wrong with someone coming in, stealing it, working on it, and then claiming it's now theirs. None of this means that *today's* Europeans have any blame, but our ancestors surely did. The land I am on was not merely "worked for", but also "stolen".> Thomas
