ttbn, where do you stand on state sanctioned murder? Instead of some pissweak attack on me, how about a decent reply, or do you have no creditable answer as per usual.

Yes Paul, many died in the US civil war, but you never hear the BLM
acknowledge that the main objective was to free the slaves.
All these wars usually have multiple causes including as per the UK
declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
I doubt the Poles would criticise it.

Hi Bazz,

Do you mean like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8744243/BLM-activists-toppled-statue-slave-trader-Edward-Colston-let-police-cautions.html

That sort of thing ? What would you expect BLM people to do, now that the enslavement of Africans for the sugar and tobacco fields of the americas, is over ? Keep talking, and complaining, about it ? They would probably agree with you.

Joe

Bazz, some will argue freeing of the slaves was a consequence of the American Civil War, not an objective of the Union. "The Emancipation Proclamation Act of January 1, 1863, applied only to enslaved people in the Confederacy, and not to those in the border states that remained loyal to the Union. It was a political manoeuvre to ferment rebellion and crush the Confederacy. If Lincoln could have preserved the Union and maintained slavery he would have, just as freeing the slaves was a way to restore the Union through military objectives.

Following the Civil War slavery in the South was replaced by the 13th amendment to the American Constitution allowing for slavery in the form of penal servitude, which was wholeheartedly embraced by Southern States, the wrongs of which were ignored by Federal authorities. The last black "peon" was freed in 1942, the real end of American slavery.

Unfortunately many on here have a view of American history as portrayed by John Wayne in some Yankee Doddle Dandy Hollywood movie of the 1950's or 60's. Well sorry to disappoint chaps, but that account you were sucked in by all them years ago may not be the whole truth, in fact it might be a pack of lies.

Paul1405,

Talking about Hollywood have you noticed that the Chinese have been trying to buy it up.

The result has been that some of the Chinese financed movies coming out of Hollywood have more to do with Chinese propaganda than entertainment.

Maybe I could get an Oscar for pointing that out.

Foxy, FOULmouth, david f, and others in the pro-China camp, will remonstrate that what I just said is anti-Asianization propaganda per se with the aim of turning back the clock on the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history.

Being the highly educated and sophisticated person that I am I have only one thing to say to them on that matter: "Phooey to you!"