Monday, April 7th, 2008
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,655
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Re: Creating a European Indigenous People’s Movement
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Why is colonialism bad, except when my country, which has no colonial history, gets colonized by Third World peoples?
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Another uneducated guess?
The colonization of Iceland began as early as 874 AD. And Greenland was annexed by the Kingdom of Norway in 1261, while the Norse had started colonizing it as early as 984 AD.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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