nicknameprick strikes again!!

Dear Butch,

You wrote;

"History suggests that many strong indigenous tribes over powered weaker tribes and not only took their claims, but also brutally killed the others off."

Which history?

about grade 5 if I recall steel. About 1970 I think.

Are you suggesting now that this didn't happen?

Dear Rehctub,

«How can you claim something has been stolen from you when you stole it in the first place»

It's pretty easy - one only needs the ability to speak and the intelligence of a 3-year old or above.

«History suggests that many strong indigenous tribes over powered weaker tribes and not only took their claims, but also brutally killed the others off.»

Ditto for the White/British tribe.

«So, given there is a huge push by the indigenous community, suggesting that white man stole their land, was it actually theirs to be stolen or, was it just overtaken by yet a more powerful force.»

True, the latter.

My question then, is how would you feel once the Chinese, apparently justifiably, get their turn?
(personally I hope to be peacefully resting by then, oblivious to all this Chad-Gadya)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbFcwicwUo

Butch, you often throw up unsubstantiated material as fact, it suits your narrative. In this case you made the claim that "History suggests that many strong indigenous tribes over powered weaker tribes and not only took their claims, but also brutally killed the others off" That is your justification for European ownership of Australia. What history does suggest is the European colonized Australia without the approval or consent of the indigenous inhabitants. with the use of superior force the British were able to subjugate the Aboriginals, nothing new in that. For two hundred years various arguments were put forward to justify that colonization, your "facts" are simply a part of that argument, an argument that is now discredited. People such as yourself will continue to fight this rear guard action in an attempt to stifle Aboriginal claims, as you perceive you would lose if such claims were successful.

Benk, what we are seeing more and more, is the politicking of "scientific correctness" hand in hand with political correctness...when will it all end ?

When an incumbent government removes wholesale, organisations like those within CSIRO, some whose research, data and evidence is spot on irrefutable, then we are seeing the return of ideologies like that which preceded the rise of Nazism in 1930's Germany.

That scares me.