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To: Arkle
Read up on the Highland Clearances before you decide that the landholders are the good guys.
5 posted on 01/23/2002 2:41:59 AM PST by babble-on
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To: babble-on
Neither the landowners nor the tenants were alive during the Highland clearances. The endless raking-up of grievances from hundreds of years ago reminds me of the demand for reparations for the slave trade.

In any case, if the Highland clearances are the reason for this, shouldn't the right to buy the land go to the descendants of the original evictees (many of whom now live in America) rather than the current tenants (many of whom are English hippies)?

7 posted on 01/23/2002 3:03:21 AM PST by Arkle
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