[ExI] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Religious Idiocy Triumphs Over Science Yet Again

[John Clark]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015  Michael Butler <butler.two.one at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​> ​
> who had, or acquired, title to the land in question, and how they got it?
> ​ ​
> Me, I seem to recall a story that a plutocrat named Dole had gunboats
> brought in over the objections of the US Secretary of State. During the
> Pacific Adventurism phase of American foreign policy.
>
> ​So more than a century ago Dole stole some land from American taxpayers
who stole it from Britain who stole it from a native Hawaiian tribe who
stole it from a different native Hawaiian tribe. And everybody involved in
that history is now long dead.

> ​> ​
> Why would you EVER let an indigenous people win anything [back]?
>
> ​If the relatives of the ​indigenous people are also *ASTRONOMICALLY*
ignorant people then I hope they never win anything back.

 John K Clark
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