Re: Happy Thanksgiving!

"Melissa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Obviously, a *lot* of the "ordinary white Englishmen" *did* in fact fight.

They weren't themselves 'freemen'. There was an authority over them that
compelled them to subservience.
Right up until a little after the Declaration of Independence; look into it.

> The ones that didn't did not leave the settlement to form new ones, did
> not refuse to do business with anyone that did fight, did not refuse the
> spoils, land and resources, of the war, kept right on over-breeding, which
> would obviously cause more of the same kind of war.

They were in a hostile land where subsistence was difficult at the best of
times.

> Their children and even themselves did not refuse to move onto the stolen
> lands.

Nothing was stolen.
Or if stolen, not stolen from anyone but thieves.

> They went on paying the taxes that were necessary to support the many
small
> wars needed to acquire more land as the settlements grew.

Or go to prison with their property confiscated; just like now.

> After all, those
> that were fighting weren't working their stolen lands and had to be
supported.

If they hadn't been fighting, there would have been no lands to work.

> You are attempting to dismiss my every point based on the very incomplete
> resistance of a minority.

You're trying to make some unsupported pronuncimientos that have little or
no basis in fact. You presume context that simply doesn't apply.

Chas