Re: 'Accidental British famines? I think not'

In soc.culture.british Nusrat  Rizvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:57:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>In soc.culture.british Dr. Jai Maharaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Forwarded message from an unknown sender: 
>>
>>> Accidental British Famines? I think not 
>>
>>You surely don't; or, if you think at all, it is how to misuse
>>the British WWW for anti-british propaganda.
>>
>>> Many Brit apologists and Oreos in India like to make the
>>> claim that it was mere "incompetence" that led to the
>>> dozens of famines that took place during British rule.
>>
>>Incompetance, lack of experience, and the recalcitrance of the
>>colonials themselves.  For example, Hindu grain hoarders
>>exacerbated the Bengal Famine.  

> What exactly is a grain hoarder, if you mean a speculator, please bear

I mean a speculator.  Someone who hoards grain so that he will
make a profit later when he sells it when the price has gone
up.  If he hoards it so long that the price rises beyond that
which the poor can afford, an entitlement failure famine occurs.
Poor people die, while the relatively wealthy step over them.
Many folks like to pretend that it was the exclusively the
colonails doing the starving and the Brits doing the stepping
but we know better don't we?

> in mind without proper storing facilities the stored grain would be
> eaten away by rats in no time.

True, but it's hard to believe the speculators would have been
so careless of their hoard.

Similar exploitation occurred in Ireland.  The wealthy Irish
bought up the land of the poor who were forced to flee.

>>> What these oreos need to understand, is that Starvation
>>> of the people of conquered territories is an old British
>>> tactic. 
>>
>>Not really.  Even An Phlobacht, the voice of anti-british Irish
>>haters, admits that we Brits gave ten millions pounds of food
>>aid to Ireland during what we call "the Great Hunger" and you
>>call THE IRISH HOLOCAUST.

> 10 million pounds?

Pounds sterling, not weight.

> where did you come up with this number or have you proof to share
> with skeptics of your dubious claims?

"The Great Hunger"
By Meadbh Gallagher, in 
An Phoblacht/Republican News 
7 September 1995

Don't tell anyone I read An Phlobacht will you?




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