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To: TimF who wrote (147234)	5/16/2002 12:44:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584915

All the whites in the area looked for allies among the Indians when they fought wars there. In the French and Indian wars this happened to. It wasn't that the colonists told the Indians "go scalp the Brits", its that the colonists looked for Indians who didn't like the government, and those Indians expressed their disline by scalping some of the Brits. Also what the Indians did fits more with the idea of sacking a pillaging then terrorism. The distinction might be a fine one, but even if you call the Indians terrorists (and I would not) that doesn't make the colonists terrorists. While I don't know if your finer points are true or not..I wasn't there to talk to some of those colonists.....I suspect the guy who was getting scalped would have not cared all that much as to what those fine points were. Besides, my point was that if your definition of terrorism is that innocent civilians are killed, then our forefathers, august as they may be, were terrorists. Actually I suspect a few of the colonists did do things that would qualify as terrorists acts, but none of them where as bad as the PLO, Hammas, or Al-Qaida, and the acts where not the offical policy pushed by Washington, or by the Continental Congress. Of course, the colonists' acts of terrorism weren't as bad because you are reading about them in a history book and they were "the good guys", as opposed to seeing it on tv, perpetrated by "the bad guys". For me, if I had a choice, and not being affected at all was not one of those choices, I would opt for being hit by flying shrapnel rather than being scalped. But that's just me. <g> ted