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T Wake wrote:

> Quite scary really. Even in the UK, BBC polls show almost a third people
> have doubts about evolution and around a quarter think creationism is
> correct.

Where did you get that from ?

Graham

From: T Wake on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:22 +0100, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:
>
>>Really? I seem to recall the British Empire went on to become quite large
>>and successfull while your nation was trying to expand.
>
>
> You mean "colonization"? Yeah... that is what resulted in slavery

Britains colonisation of Africa did not "result in slavery." What was the US
stance on slavery though? Seems to me all men are created equal as long as
they are White Christians.

> here, as well as apartheid in S. Africa,

Nope. Learn more about who the South Africans were.

> as well as the need for a
> person like Ghandi to take a stand. We won't even mention the opium
> trade, or the dens that existed in London even right up into the last
> century.

You seem to imply it is a bad thing and only happened in the UK.


From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> JoeBloe wrote:
>
>> Why don't we ask someone like Steven Biko... Oh... that's right...
>> we can't. You bastards murdered him.
>
> Absolutely *nothing* to do with Britain, the Empire or whatever.
>
> Have you never heard of the RSA ? Republic of South Africa. An independent
> country.
>

Especially as it was an different European country which colonised most of
South Africa. You can blame Britain for the first Concentration Camps
though.


From: T Wake on

<lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:20:08 +0100, Eeyore
>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>JoeBloe wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:22 +0100, "T Wake"
>>>> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:
>>>>
>>>> >Really? I seem to recall the British Empire went on to become quite
>>>> >large
>>>> >and successfull while your nation was trying to expand.
>>>>
>>>> You mean "colonization"? Yeah... that is what resulted in slavery
>>>> here, as well as apartheid in S. Africa, as well as the need for a
>>>> person like Ghandi to take a stand. We won't even mention the opium
>>>> trade, or the dens that existed in London even right up into the last
>>>> century.
>>>
>>>Britain ended slavery about 100 years ( or more ? ) before the USA.
>>>
>> It was a british mindset that started it over here, dipshit.
>
> Your moral relativism is showing. It was the people who bought and used
> slaves that started the slave trade here.

And slave trading had gone on for thousands of years before the British
Empire turned up.


From: T Wake on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:22 +0100, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:
>
>>America would have eventually become independant. It always happens in the
>>end. No empire lasts for ever.
>
>
> Ours will.

Bet it doesnt.

> Why? Because it is based on freedom.

Hahaha. The freedom to do as the US says. Well done.

> No matter how hard
> to try to deny it, or point to current affairs as a proof against it.
> It remains a fact.

You obviously have no idea what a "fact" is.