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Originally Posted by Tim Murphy
..Jefferson bought and paid for the Louisiana Purchase fair and square, $4 million in gold to Napoleon. The tribes didn't counteroffer...
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A counter offer for what was already stolen from them? You and I have different ideas of "fair and square." Thievery, massacre, disease, broken treaty after broken treaty, violated Supreme Court decision after violated Supreme Court decision -- Indians paid plenty for being removed from the land that provided them with abundant subsistence and spiritual connection, and restricted to barren prisoner of war camps. C'mon yourself, Tim, you know the story. Everybody does. As I said, I am found of the Declaration, the Constitution, and the USA -- I am almost a sort of Capraesque naive patriot at times -- but there is no defending what our country did to the native inhabitants of the land we have come to occupy. So, let's not try.
David R.