Hell wrote: >Gil wrote: > > > Good on ya, mate! ;-) > > > > According to my Far Side Of-the-Wall Calendar, February 6 was Waitangi Day > > in your neck of the woods. What's up with that? > >Nic to see you've picked up a good Kiwi colloquialism there, mate!
I'm a quick study. >Warning - gross simplification: February 6 (Waitangi Day) is the >anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (kind of like >Independence Day in the US), where lots of Maori chiefs signed over their >land to the British. It's now in hot dispute, and the Maori tribes are >demanding their land back. I say they should give back the guns and >blankets (and tuberculosis and influenza and measles) first. "...and not to mistreat the abos ... if there's anyone watching." Same should apply here, with the American abos (native Americans) getting more than just a right to open casinos on the reservation -- oops, tribal lands. >P.S. Extracting the michael, obviously - Take the mickey out all you want. Life is too short to be taken seriously. > I don't really want to get into >another debate about the wrong-doings of my British ancestors! Civilization is built on the bones of those with weaker weapons. (As Heinlein said, "God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.") I refuse to be blamed for the sins of my Brit ancestors, no matter how grave their sins. Gil
