We Are All Spaniards

like how those American rebels went on to destroy Indian reservations
through slaughter and starvation

No, by then the Americans were "conquerors" -- again, not to be confused
with "terrorists" -- on their way to capturing the continent.

The reservations came later, after the Indian conquest was complete.

You really should carefully study the fine distinctions between the words
"rebel," "terrorist," "defender," and "conqueror," in the English language,
as these differences are critically important in any cogent discussion of
world history.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Let me think - that's a hard one - umm, umm, umm. I think every native
American was innocent until the white man came and began robbing them,
then
killing them. Do you suggest that when the American Indian began to fight
back they stopped being innocent and then as a whole became guilty and
worthy of extermination? Genocide in today's parlance.

The Indians were here first.

They had no effective weapons, and the new settlers out-numbered them 1000
to 1.

They lost the land. It's called "conquest."

They'll get over it. My people did.

Yours probably did, too.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:49:55 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

You really should carefully study the fine distinctions between the words
"rebel," "terrorist," "defender," and "conqueror," in the English language,
as these differences are critically important in any cogent discussion of
world history.

One thinks of Eskimos and snow.

Don

I suppose you could list the ban on partial-birth abortion as happening
under his watch, but this procedure is so barbaric that most people --
Democrat or Republican -- shudder at this type of abortion. I see that
law
as being outside of partisan politics -- but that's just me, I suppose.


We call the terrorists barbaric for killing innocents?

Yes. And your point is...?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I find it disturbing when the chief executive of our republic proposes a
constitutional amendment based upon his faith.

Which one is that? The marriage thing?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

How can it be solved? The stronger survives? War, bloodshed, economical
decrease?

Sadly, I'm afraid so.

If Radical Islam continues down this illogically confrontational and violent
path, I only see terrible hardship and bloodshed throughout the Middle East.
The U.S. and Western Europe are not about to roll over and die, nor will
they continue to allow terrorist attacks in their countries.

That seems to leave only one alternative.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Lets see now. On the one side is the power to destroy the
entire middle east but one that chooses not to; on the other a
desperate striving for nuclear weapons which if acquired would
be unleashed without hesitation on us all. On one side we have
tolerance and respect for people regardless of their religion or
race; on the other, people who believe that being a homosexual
is a capital offense, and that women who don't shuffle around
in a sack deserve to get raped. And you, safe in your western
bed at night, can't quite make his mind up as to who is right
and who is wrong.

Martin is a moral relativist. There is no "right" and no "wrong" in his
world -- only shades of gray.

Sooner rather than later, he'll have to make a choice.

I suspect he'll choose correctly, if grudgingly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In other words, we expect crime to cease, given enough punishment.

Nobody expects that in the general sense; only in the specific. If the
Bible is
to be believed, we've had crime with us since the second generation of
man. Even
back when God himself was levying the punishments, it didn't go away.

Punishment alone doesn't always work, true enough.

However, I'm probably the wrong person to talk to about rehabilitating
criminals, as I have no patience with dishonorable people.

I've always subscribed to the "life imprisonment without parole" school of
criminal justice for virtually every major crime.

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The socialists have just won the election & Zapatero has
pledged to withdraw troops from Iraq. Looks like it's
down to the US, Britain, Australia and Poland. Rather
like last time.

With this election the Spanish have actually legitimized the very attackers
they supposedly revile, and endangered us all in the process.

This election will encourage the terrorists like nothing else has.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:ev85c.13233$Cb.306915@attbi_s51...

With this election the Spanish have actually legitimized the very
attackers
they supposedly revile, and endangered us all in the process.

This election will encourage the terrorists like nothing else has.

How did you get from electing socialists to legitimizing Islam
fundamentalists?

Michael