I detected so many factual errors in your arguments, I can not hope to possibly address them all with the rigor they deserve. Not error of opinion, but basic fact.
Can you at least give me a few? I'd like to know where I'm miseducated, so to speak.
Actually, they were as legal as you can be in those times, as can be seen at the
Avalon Project.
Also, most of the FFs were born in America (with the exception of Alexander Hamilton).
Did the American Indians grant us amnesty?The entire concept of codified law in general and amnesty in particular were unknown to most American Indians. Most were literally stone age hunter/gatherer tribes, some more sophisticated than others.
Did the mexicans when we took the southwest?Not applicable. See Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Also maybe the problem is more overpriced goods than too-high wages. And where do the overpriced goods come from? too high wages...The market economy (with some ham-handed intervention by .gov) usually determines price. The component of cost attributable to labor varies with the product. For instance, the labor component of, say, lawn mowing is higher relative to the labor component of petroleum or iceberg lettuce.
...I'm pretty sure that smallpox blankets broke some sort of law.I have never, in my formal & informal studies of history, come across a primary source indicating that there was an organized effort to spread smallpox through the North American Indian population.
There are some other objections, as well:
1. Germ theory did not exist when this was supposed to occur.
# van Leeuwenhoek, Anton (1670s)
# Semmelweis, Ignaz (1840s)
# Pasteur,Louis (1860s)
# Lister, Joseph (1860s)
# Koch, Robert (1870s)
# Iwanowski, Dmitri (1890s)
# Fleming, Alexander (1920s)
2. Even if it is given that the colonists waged biological warfare against the indians, why smallpox? Why not influenza, bubonic plague, measels, or something else? Or do we also have to assume that smallpox was determined by early colonists to be the one (of several) diseases which North America had not been exposed?
3. Does it not make more sense to attribute that the indians contracted smallpox the same way that europeans contracted plague and other diseases that originated in the Orient: through human contact & commerce?
4. Was there similar counter-warfare conducted by the indians against the colonists, since the colonists contracted diseases heretofore unknown to Europe? Were the indians pushing syphillic whores on the colonists since the indians--somehow--figured out that syphillis was new to europeans?
It does not pass the sniff test outside of university departments named "*-studies" or PC textbooks where history is boiled down to Sacajewia, Harriet Tubman, and the Buffalo Soldiers.
This myth rates right up there with the myth that Cleopatra was black and that sub-saharan african engineers discovered and implemented manned flight.
Laws make criminals. Our lawyers can speak up, but there are essentially two kinds of laws: laws against things that are in and of themselves wrong (murder, rape, theft, etc.) and laws making certain acts/things illegal (zoning, nusiance weed ordinances, transporting vegetable matter across state lines, etc).
What makes me entitled to live here in this land of milk and honey and not them?I assume you are a US citizen. All others have no right to even step foot on US soil, just as I have no right to bust in your apartment door and pop a squat in your living room.
Who am I to exclude them?You are a citizen of the USA, a
sovereign nation. US citizens, through their representatives, have the authority to let in whom we will, in whatever proportion we want, from wherever we want, with whatever skills/qualifications we dictate...or no one at all. It is our call to make, not anybody else's.
These people pay taxes. It's just in the form of working for so low wages so employers can charge cheaper prices. Lower wages relative to someone else doing the same job is not equivalent to paying taxes. It is more in the nature of a subsidy to the employer by the taxpayers.
Those selfsame hospitals that are being closed due to illegal immigrants were probably built and painted and cleaned by illegal immigrants.Assume that what you write is true. So, it is OK to cause the county hospitals to go tango uniform and bleed the local taxpayers dry, as long as some illegal alien, sometime, scrubbed one of the toilets?
The great likelihood is that those hospitals closed were not built with illegal alien labor, as they were built before the great post-1965 influx. The influx led many localities to close public hospitals and private hospitals to go bankrupt:
Bankrupt hospital serving Hispanic immigrants closingSubmitted by Editor on August 16, 2004 - 16:00. Health
Los Angeles, AP - A financially troubled hospital that served as a principal care destination for Hispanic immigrants must now close its doors and it has many concerned the closure will overwhelm resources in the city's remaining emergency rooms.
A federal bankruptcy judge Friday ordered the Elastar Community Hospital in East Los Angeles to shut down.
The 80-year-old hospital has racked up more than $10 million in debt and it couldn't afford to pay its roughly 400 workers.
The hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last fall, but it didn't work. It has since been placed under Chapter 7 protection, which allows for a court-appointed trustee to begin liquidating its assets.
Elastar is the third hospital with an emergency room to close in the county this year.
"We cannot stand any more closures in an emergency system capacity in Los Angeles - this system is on the brink of absolute chaos," said Jim Lott, the executive vice president of the Hospital Assn. of Southern California.
Lemme see, 2004-80=1924. 41 years before the flood across the borders started.
When my family visited Big Bend last year, we brought our 6MO boy with. Many times, in conversation with folks who lived nearby & on the way, the conversation turned to kids and the birthing of same.
When dining in the Reata restaurant in Alpine, Texas, we had a pleasant conversation with a BP officer & his pregnant wife. We learned that the closest labor & delivery ward in Midland, Texas was a
3 1/2 hour trip. Practically, if you wanted your baby born in a hospital, it had to be scheduled for induction or ceasarian.
A similar conversation was drummed up with the
fellow who runs the Starlight Theater (restaurant) down on the border. His wife was was expecting and they planned on a home birth. If she wanted to birth her child in a hospital with a L&D ward & real, live OB/GYNs, she would have to drive 5 hours from the
border to Midland.
These hospital closings have serious, deleterious effects on American citizens.
And when I talk about the Mexican Southwest being taken, I mean from the Mexicans. Texas, California, and other states were once part of the Mexican Empire. Look up: James Polk, Mexican American War.Yep, I have. Wars have consequences. If you provoke one to rally popular support and lose, you usually end up taking it in the face. A more contemporary example would be the Faulkland Islands War. Yet another junta of latin american strongmen thought a military expedition to carve a little territory off an anglo country would be just the thing to solidify their political position. They choose...poorly.
And from whom did the Mexicans take Mexico? The Spanish. From whom did the Spanish take Mexico? The collection of indian tribes...with the help of other indian tribes who did not like being ruled by the Aztecs.
I mean, seriously, remember the Alamo, glorious battle fought so that Texans could own the slaves that the Mexicans didn't want them to.Yes, the Mexican gov't had laws against slavery, but did not enforce them on anglos or mexicans. Kinda like our laws against employing illegal aliens.
You don't think there might have been more to it, since the vast majority of Texas did not own slaves? Maybe freedom of religion? A dislike of Mexican troops disarming Texans? Or maybe that they feared Santa Ana might do to them what he did to
Zacatecas?
On May 11, 1835, Francisco GarcÃa's militia, was defeated at the Battle of Guadalupe by the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna. After his brutal victory, Santa Anna's forces ransacked the city of Zacatecas and the rich silver mines at Fresnillo. He then granted his soldiers two days of rape and pillage in which 2000 non-combatants were killed. Soon after this battle, President Santa Anna began calling himself "The Napoleon of the West".
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"garbage in, garbage out" applies.
Okay so it's not my fault I'm a mental defective?
You seem to be especially keen on attributing to others a negative attitude toward yourself. Persist in this and you very well may be successful.
I'll be a bit more blunt in what I think the deal is: sh-t
in your brains, not sh-t
for brains. The brains seem to be working, but they have been fed ersatz facts rather than the real thing.
Why do I think this? Because you have some facility when expressing yourself in text. This is not a perfect proxy for mental facility, but it does point in that direction. Then you use that facility along with crap data to come to your conclusions.
For example, Ptolomy was a sharp fellow. But he was completely wrong in his conception of the solar system (geocentric). He just did not have good enough data. Fast forward to Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. They were able to get it right (heliocentric), not because they were smart & Ptolomy was dumb, but because they were able to feed their minds with quality data.
Like I wrote before, older books (especially contemporaneous accounts), tend to be freer of politically correct nonsense such as the "Cleopatra was black," and "the colonists intentionally sold smallpox-ridden blankets," and "America was full of happy, in-touch-with-nature indigeonous folk who rarely warred on each other."
And there's no excusing this:
you conceited bastard
Yep, it is best to keep communication cordial, no matter what you may think to yourself.
