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US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
Guardian ^ | 4 may 2012 | Chris McGreal

Posted on 05/04/2012 7:15:27 PM PDT by TexasSecede79366

Does this mean I have a legitimate claim to South Carolina?

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To: Cringing Negativism Network

First let me clarify. I do not support the UN demand that we return the lands to the Indians after we took it from them over 200 years ago. Problem is when we say that be mindful we supported the right for Jewish refugees to create a homeland after the Romans dispersed them over 2000+ years before 1948. Thus today we say nuts to the UN but OK for Jewish refugees to make the claim against the Arabs living in British controlled Trans Jordan?


81 posted on 05/04/2012 9:20:51 PM PDT by Fee
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To: Jenny217

OK but only if we get our beads and trinkets back.


82 posted on 05/04/2012 9:26:27 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Longbow1969

Whoa, I envy all of you with Native American connections! My family only goes back to about 1630.


83 posted on 05/04/2012 9:33:13 PM PDT by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
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To: TexasSecede79366

“That sounds close to an anarchist statement?”

No, it applies to any type of society.

There are many ways to defend what is yours. You’re thinking of only your own physical force or smarts.

What do we use to defend what is “ours”? Let’s take our house and its content, for example. How do we defend them?

The first line of defense is installing and using locks and perhaps alarms. That’s to keep “them” out.

If they do manage to get in, then our line of defense is “calling the police”, or if we’re in the house and we have a gun and we live in Texas, you can stop them with a gun.

If they get in and you’re not there and they manage to take stuff and run away, then the line of defense is you calling the police and the pressing charges in the courts of law.

If you are unwilling or unable to take those actions, then the stuff taken by the thief becomes his.

In the case of the American Indians, they didn’t have a strong sense of ownership, at least regarding land. And they did not value it greatly. So when the europeans came they were able to buy large pieces of land for a song. They also took a lot of it through force. The indians may have been willing to defend it, but because of the whites’ superior force they were unable to defend it.

But some indians haven’t given up as we find out from this article. They’re trying to get enough countries in the UN to be on their side and try to use diplomatic “force” on the US to get it back. If they succeed in getting this through the UN (which obviously they can’t since we have veto power), and if we don’t defend that which is now ours, then we will no longer own it.

History books are filled with stories like this. Remember the Alamo?


84 posted on 05/04/2012 9:34:17 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: wildbill

That’s cool. Sanberg’s gotta be right. Let me know how it works out for you.


85 posted on 05/04/2012 9:35:38 PM PDT by TexasSecede79366 (Do politicians satisfy the literal definition of zombies?)
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To: TexasSecede79366

Apropos my last posting....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880126/posts


86 posted on 05/04/2012 9:38:31 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Yes, I’ve heard of you Schmohawks. Your bris ceremonies are something to behold. But a world of advise, stop using a tomahawk for the circumcision. If you sneeze, it’s all over.

"Rub a little schmaltz on it, it'll be fine."

87 posted on 05/04/2012 9:44:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TexasSecede79366

The UN should give the land back to NYC and move...anywhere except the US.


88 posted on 05/04/2012 9:51:48 PM PDT by madison10 (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. TJ)
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To: TexasSecede79366

I know the spin, a people without a land and a land without a people. The problem is culture of the Arabs. They do not like non Muslim and Arabs moving into their area, become the dominant group in the area and then by vote declare independence with them as the dominant ruling power. Given Arabs have this problem (last 50+ years have proven it) is it wise to shove European refugees of Jewish faith into the Arab population and not expect fireworks??!!!! If the US supports this aren’t we immersing ourselves into the conflict. If we want to make it up to the Jews, shouldn’t Germany be forced to carve out a piece of land as a European Jewish homeland as reparation for the Holocaust and not the Arabs????
Unlike the Paulbots, I do not advocate abandoning Israel. One does not solve a Holocaust with another Holocaust. Lesson learn is try not to get involve with different groups fighting over land with ownership and legitimacy based on how far one wants to go back in history. Can be a costly and bloody affair.


89 posted on 05/04/2012 9:54:53 PM PDT by Fee
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To: TexasSecede79366

UN should have to pay trillions of dollars to all the women and children raped by UN peace (?) keeping forces over the years.


90 posted on 05/04/2012 9:55:24 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Back off, you murderous shoe wearing Apache wannabee!(LOL)

My grandmother never told me why our ancestors were called Blackfoot...I’m guessing it had something to do with why so few survived the genocides and purges.
Too few were left to merit a treaty for our tribe.
It was hinted that they mostly all died, and so few warriors were left to defend those of our tribe, that other tribes offered shelter as a mercy that was a new concept to any of the tribes.

But that could have been a lie, since she married a half breed Cherokee from an Oklahoma reservation as a second husband.

My grandmother moved her children far and away from the reservations.
Looking back,I think she made the right choice.


91 posted on 05/04/2012 9:56:01 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: ArmyTeach

One branch of mine goes back to 1640. Just by being in the US so long would seem that we’d have Native American blood somewhere in our family trees.


92 posted on 05/04/2012 9:57:25 PM PDT by madison10 (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. TJ)
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To: TexasSecede79366

Man that Elizabeth Warren sure has some clout!


93 posted on 05/04/2012 9:57:25 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ArmyTeach

Your family is only a block or so away (1630) from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and the Kenyan/American interloper. Did Obama share dog-BBQ’s with them?

PS. My wife’s family came over in the 1620’s and some of them are still alive, or seem like it. They have the family bible to prove it. 17 fought for the Union in one Penn. Regiment at Gettysburg.Not sure where the Indian connection came in.


94 posted on 05/04/2012 10:02:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Slings and Arrows

If I rub a little schmaltz on it, it will grow prematurely. That would really disrupt the post-bris luncheon.

I know. We Jews are such optimists that when a boy is only a week old, we cut off a little, knowing that it will grow back, and then some.

At a bris we sing, “Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow”.


95 posted on 05/04/2012 10:05:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: TexasSecede79366

Oh yeah, steal it, totally screw it up, then give it back to the Indians then bitch about the Casino they build on it and start making millions of dollars.


96 posted on 05/04/2012 10:09:57 PM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

That’s why we’re the agents - we know how to take 10% off.


97 posted on 05/04/2012 10:10:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: oldtimer
They would not give them old rusted burned out Acatraz, I doubt if they would give them the UN building. You are on the right track though.
98 posted on 05/04/2012 10:13:55 PM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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To: TexasSecede79366

What would I be if my grand father was 1/2 Indian?


99 posted on 05/04/2012 10:16:06 PM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: aquila48

One of my FOs was a “ranch security”,then RLI.Then disappeared into SA for the pussy. I’m not buying it for a minute but consider him MIA until I here different. Reb Simmons.


100 posted on 05/04/2012 10:17:01 PM PDT by TexasSecede79366 (Do politicians satisfy the literal definition of zombies?)
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