"Happy" Invasion Day

I'm pretty sure the "buyers" would have held a wild party in
celebration of their bargain though. Let's face it, the alternative
would have been much more costly. The cost of a few a trinkets is
peanuts to setting up and maintaining garrisons to keep the savages
under control.
But of course, this was all about taming the savage land and making it
fit for white people. That was and probably still is a noble pursuit.

 

Of course we are... and massacres are expensive.

 

You looking to get your ass kicked?
Keep going..........................

 

snip white rascist rant.

 

added clause which this dickhead peter lucas snipped:


All through the history of this world, there has been instances of
possession of lands by people other than the "original" inhabitants
It has been that way and will be that for years to come
First it was acquisiton by power, then it became acquisition by trade which
by todays standards, would be called stealth.

I can remember being taught in school about John Batman trading the site for
Melbourne for a couple of axes and blankets, shirts and other stuff
This was the deal in those days

Nowadays
almost everyone, including yourself, take today's values and challenge the
validity of that treaty, by saying that the local inhabitants were cheated
out of their lands.
The Wurundjeri elders who made the deal thought it was good at the time

If you have ever owned property. sold it and years later seen the current
price of that property, have you not desired to have that property back now
so you can get more out of it?
Of course you have and so have most others



Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia