[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, N.Miller wrote:

> I have a friend who is of Comanche lineage (probably someone in his
> family kidnapped)--he takes great pleasure in reciting the hostile
> exploits of his ancestors and bursting the bubble of modern Caucasian
> apologists.  (He's so not an apologist that he wrote the official
> history of the Texas Rangers-- no *not* baseball.)
>
> Please don't pretend that the Native Americans were all pastoral,
> peace-loving people.  Many of them made war on each other quite
> regularly--they just didn't have the tech level to do the same to the
> Europeans who came over.  It's happened the world over, and there's
> nothing to be done for it now, except help the remnants of their
> cultures survive in the modern world.

But nowhere in this is anything which gives the Europeans the
justification for having simply waltzed in and taken others' land.

Peace...  Sridhar