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To: C19fan

Okay, hyperbolic overstatements aside, there is enough reason to object to Jackson being on our money: besides the Trail of Tears deportation, which removed not savages who threatened war on civilized folks, but precisely the tribes that had earned the name “The Five Civilized Tribes” because they had adapted so well to European ways, his banking policy was a model of corruption and cronyism.

Replace him with Reagan.

If I want real historical grievances against my country, the Trail of Tears ranks number one, followed by our behaviy or in the Philippines after the Spanish American War, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. Our misfortune at having been colonized and then founded as a nation a little before Christendom decided slavery was evil and went about stamping it out everywhere possible doesn’t even rank. (And, I can come up with a few more things I find more blameworthy than that misfortune, but they were done by proxies, not Americans directly.)


25 posted on 02/26/2015 12:15:36 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

Civilize them with a Krag.


34 posted on 02/26/2015 3:36:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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