Britain - colonises half the world . . .

[TheBlackAdder]

10. +10 I thought it looked like bullshit. The premise is valid though, even at 22%.

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They love telling other people what to do, but not the other way around.


American colonists were no better, since the main driving force of the American Revolution wasn't taxation, it was the Royal Proclamation of 1768. The one which the King made stating that land West of the Appalachia was Indian land, bound by Indian laws. The land to the East was bound by Western laws. Colonists were forbidden from encroaching onto Indian land. The colonists wanted to expand further, and displace the Native Americans. But, in order to violate the King's orders, they had to break from the kingdom. The spin about taxation was to give legitimacy to the colonist's perversions and deceptions. They repaid the Indians, the ones who taught them farming and survival, with continual encroachment and death.


This country was not built on honor and virtue, but a desire for colonial hegemony.

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