Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

[Sapiens]

http://www.restoreliberty.com/free%2...lave%20toc.htm

The above link is to a book that must be read for those seeking to understand our present system. Adrian Banks has done an excellent job of detailing how the Republic was taken and exiled, and we then find ourselves in a defacto Socialist Democracy, soon to be a Fascist Hell .

[Shakespear]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

I just happened to see last night a documentary on BBC Knowledge titled "History of Racism". Was that an eye opener !!!!

I never new that about 1860, 1870 and 1880 India suffered what we call today the El Ninio. In this case the monsoons did not arrive and there was extreme drought. Since India at this time was in the good hands of the English Empire, the Indians got the "best" treatment a global power could provide. The necesary grain sitting in ports stayed there while great numbers of people starved. Then when called on to act to help, setup feeding points but people were forced to walk to them (10's of km) with the added provisal that they also would need to work to get the food !!!

The British Created an Indian Holocaust

By Kathakali Chatterjee on July 17, 2007 5:42 PM | 46 Comments

Kathakali Chatterjee wrote this article.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums....php?p=4131724

I must say that yesterday was the first time that I heard about this. The total of 30 million people lost as mentioned on BBC certainly made an impression on me. The average European knows nothing about this and the EU educational burocrats will not help him with it. I suspect for most, colonial times were just those days when nothing dramatical was happening outside of an occacional protest about the foreigners presence in a particular colony.:rolleyes:

The "good" deeds of Germans in Namibia on Shark Island also make an impression if one finds out more of what happened there and then realizes that shortly afterwards Germany applied the same know-how in its behavior during WWII.

It is amazing how these bits of history give one a better understanding of the behavior of nations. Without such knowledge it is really hard to understand the contemporary currents of historical events. Without this knoweldge it is hard to judge what future moves a given nation is willing to make.

Know history or consider yourself to be blind.

[orion]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

Sapiens,

That is a great site and read. I've heard Walter Williams use the slave term like that and now I have a better prepared summary to support the case.

[marvenger]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

You're dead right about history. Mike Davis wrote a good book about the colonial period in sharp contrast to Niall Fergusson's claims that the British Empire was actually a good thing for the backward subcontinent. Just look at all the infrastructure we built for them, he reckons.

Mike Davis does some actual historical research and finds that pre colonial India had a vast network of irrigation and wells designed to cope with frequent droughts of the region. British engineers were extremely impressed with the system, but concentrated infrastructure development on road and rail that would mobilise armies rather than support the natives. The local infrastructure was left to deteriorate and you guessed it the contributed greatly to the famines that the idiotic natives had to walk 10km and work to justify an amount of food that would let them starve, because thats clearly what he backward lot deserved.

Davis, Mike (2001) Late Victorian Holocausts, Verso, London

[cjppjc]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

I just happened to see last night a documentary on BBC Knowledge titled "History of Racism". Was that an eye opener !!!!

I never new that about 1860, 1870 and 1880 India suffered what we call today the El Ninio. In this case the monsoons did not arrive and there was extreme drought. Since India at this time was in the good hands of the English Empire, the Indians got the "best" treatment a global power could provide. The necesary grain sitting in ports stayed there while great numbers of people starved. Then when called on to act to help, setup feeding points but people were forced to walk to them (10's of km) with the added provisal that they also would need to work to get the food !!!



http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums....php?p=4131724

I must say that yesterday was the first time that I heard about this. The total of 30 million people lost as mentioned on BBC certainly made an impression on me. The average European knows nothing about this and the EU educational burocrats will not help him with it. I suspect for most, colonial times were just those days when nothing dramatical was happening outside of an occacional protest about the foreigners presence in a particular colony.:rolleyes:

The "good" deeds of Germans in Namibia on Shark Island also make an impression if one finds out more of what happened there and then realizes that shortly afterwards Germany applied the same know-how in its behavior during WWII.

It is amazing how these bits of history give one a better understanding of the behavior of nations. Without such knowledge it is really hard to understand the contemporary currents of historical events. Without this knoweldge it is hard to judge what future moves a given nation is willing to make.

Know history or consider yourself to be blind.

There was a video from I think Comedy Central making fun of the tea parties. In the video a man from the U.K. kept saying something like We killed 30 million. I never knew what he meant.

[metalman]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

this fish got away...

[marvenger]

Re: Must Read: Free or Slave? by Adrian Banks

that was pretty bloody funny