Guilty for fighting the Boer the way they fought them

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Neil

#15
September 07, 2011, 07:31:02 AM
Quote from: Habsburg on September 07, 2011, 12:16:38 AM
The British were nothing more than Gold grabbers in Zuid Afrika!
No, they were a civilizing force.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Neil

#16
September 07, 2011, 07:33:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2011, 06:59:42 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 06, 2011, 11:47:46 PM
may god damn those boers
Indeed.

But more importantly, what a waste of fucking time and money.
Not really.  It's not like there was anything better to do with it, and it would have been more expensive to annihilate the Boers during WWII.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Razgovory

#17
September 07, 2011, 07:34:22 AM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#18
September 07, 2011, 07:56:25 AM
I'd do her.
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Ideologue

#19
September 07, 2011, 08:30:55 AM
Quote from: Neil on September 07, 2011, 07:33:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2011, 06:59:42 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 06, 2011, 11:47:46 PM
may god damn those boers
Indeed.

But more importantly, what a waste of fucking time and money.
Not really.  It's not like there was anything better to do with it, and it would have been more expensive to annihilate the Boers during WWII.

Not the war, I meant the the Attorney-General. :P
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viper37

#20
September 07, 2011, 10:55:08 AM
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

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garbon

#21
September 07, 2011, 11:31:54 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 07, 2011, 06:27:21 AM
Whos the chick on the left?

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Neil

#22
September 07, 2011, 11:43:17 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2011, 08:30:55 AM
Quote from: Neil on September 07, 2011, 07:33:43 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2011, 06:59:42 AM
Quote from: LaCroix on September 06, 2011, 11:47:46 PM
may god damn those boers
Indeed.
But more importantly, what a waste of fucking time and money.
Not really.  It's not like there was anything better to do with it, and it would have been more expensive to annihilate the Boers during WWII.
Not the war, I meant the the Attorney-General. :P
It's not like Australian politicians have a lot on their plate.  Damning immigrants and abos can be done pretty quickly and by relatively few pols.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

grumbler

#23
September 07, 2011, 01:11:24 PM
I was at a history club luncheon at which Kit Denton, the author of Closed File, spoke.  His topic was why he had never written the promised sequel to Closed File (which was supposed to have outlined all the times the fucking Poms had failed to redress the injustice when given the chance), and his answer was that further research had convinced him that Harry Morant was guilty as hell, and deserved to die.  The murder of Reverend Heese to keep him from reporting the killing of PoWs was particularly troubling to Denton.  That murder was in absolutely cold blood, and Morant's aquittal on the charge was, according to Denton, a miscarriage of justice.
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mongers

#24
September 08, 2011, 06:38:07 AM
Quote from: grumbler on September 07, 2011, 01:11:24 PM
I was at a history club luncheon at which Kit Denton, the author of Closed File, spoke.  His topic was why he had never written the promised sequel to Closed File (which was supposed to have outlined all the times the fucking Poms had failed to redress the injustice when given the chance), and his answer was that further research had convinced him that Harry Morant was guilty as hell, and deserved to die.  The murder of Reverend Heese to keep him from reporting the killing of PoWs was particularly troubling to Denton.  That murder was in absolutely cold blood, and Morant's aquittal on the charge was, according to Denton, a miscarriage of justice.

Interesting first person testimony. It would be nice if he went on to write a short paper about this or would that be a too politically charged act ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

grumbler

#25
September 08, 2011, 06:51:21 AM
Quote from: mongers on September 08, 2011, 06:38:07 AM
Interesting first person testimony. It would be nice if he went on to write a short paper about this or would that be a too politically charged act ?
He wouldn't have been allowed back into Oz if he had put his opinions into writing!  :D
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

mongers

#26
September 08, 2011, 06:56:50 AM
Quote from: grumbler on September 08, 2011, 06:51:21 AM
Quote from: mongers on September 08, 2011, 06:38:07 AM
Interesting first person testimony. It would be nice if he went on to write a short paper about this or would that be a too politically charged act ?
He wouldn't have been allowed back into Oz if he had put his opinions into writing!  :D

Yes, you'd think now we're so far removed from the events, people would be prepared to look at events more dispassionately.  :(
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

grumbler

#27
September 08, 2011, 07:09:36 AM
Quote from: mongers on September 08, 2011, 06:56:50 AM
Yes, you'd think now we're so far removed from the events, people would be prepared to look at events more dispassionately.  :(
I think you are taking my comment more seriously than intended.  Denten may well have put his opinion into writing, and  I just haven't seen it.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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The Minsky Moment

#28
September 08, 2011, 01:36:14 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 08, 2011, 06:38:07 AM
It would be nice if he went on to write a short paper about this or would that be a too politically charged act ?

Quick check reveals Denton died 14 years ago.
Insert grumbler age joke here.
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The Brain

#29
September 08, 2011, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on September 08, 2011, 01:36:14 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 08, 2011, 06:38:07 AM
It would be nice if he went on to write a short paper about this or would that be a too politically charged act ?

Quick check reveals Denton died 14 years ago.
Insert grumbler age joke here.

:hmm: Or

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