To AKA.

Thank you for providing that reference. It is nice to see that Watkins Tench considered it preposterous that the British could have been responsible for the outbreak of plague among the "indians" by way of the innoculating serum that their surgeons had brought with them. How you and Diver Dan can therefore imply something sinister from that is beyond me. But I suppose if you are really deturmined to find something, anything, with which to justify some rediculous genocide theory, then I suppose that it will have to do.

One imagines that the only reason why Robert Manne and his coven of history fabricating academics have not siezed upon Watkins Tench's book for a bit of left wing revision is that Tench's book is just too well known.

Did you like the bits in the book which described how the aborigines bodies were covered in filth, their noses running with rivers of geen snot, and their hair infested with vermin? How about the passages in which Tench described the extreme brutality that aboriginal men used on their women?

It was through reading books by Tench and Ion idriess, that made me realise that the left wing, black armband version of Australian history was a lie, and that the best thing that ever happened to these degraded people was the coming of the British. It did not come as a surprise to me when Windshuttle discovered that some socialist "historians" had deliberately falsified and misquoted the historical record to conform to their white hating prejudices.

I presume that you are reading Australian history in order to discover something that you can misquote yourself, and to find something you can misinterprete to conform to your batty worldview. But at least you are reading. That gives me hope that sooner or later, you will get sick and tired of trying to explain away the glaring differences between historical reality and socialist interpretations of it, and realise that you have been conned.

When that happens, I hope you will get angry at the caste of villains who are lying to you.

Apropos smallpox and aboriginal communities, the below might be somewhat enlightening –for those with “an open mind” :

http://www.bennelong.com.au/articles/bennelong-smallpox-1789.php

Aka:

...“Lego Vitriol” inadvertently described another classic killer of the natives, influenza. Maybe that virus blew in on the westerly winds as well! p.s. thanks to SPQR, very interesting.

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LEGO,
your choice of language and turn of phrase is crude and offensive. It does not enhance your arguement or your intellectual image.

You appear to be getting progressively more teenager-behind-the-shed like as you grasp for points to raise in your arguement. It is pathetic that an adult, as I presume you are, needs to scour the gutter for such language.

Aka,
Judging by your name you're from an area where the indigenous have been colonised by your forebears yet nowadays the descendants of the perpetrators are claiming victim status. I think this is highly hypocritical & to base a whole chapter of one's history on a series of blatant mis-portrayal is only fooling yourself. Indigenous Australians have copped as much Ill treatment as they dished out even before the arrival of the european. There is absolutely no truth in the much hinted at myth that this land was a Nirvana before the european invasion.
Wide-eyed, open-mouthed ignorant academic historians are to blame for the perpetuation of this falsehood as it is purely for personal gain at the cost of a Nation's harmony.