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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (230)	11/27/2002 1:40:23 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

'Considering that slavery would almost certainly still exist in the American South' Really, you think that? ..... mmm, think how that would play in canehjun papers ... and the gestapo you'd need to keep the negros enslaved - think you could afford all those highly trained wardens at today's wage rates? ... and then, you'd be competing with your negro labour up against modern machinery ... no, i have a hard time imagining this, i think you'd be better off to trade your slaves in on a John Deere, get your state guvmint or your feds to subsidise the planting of the land you used to work them on to yellow pine, and then screw the canehjuns around when you find that builders prefer their fine straight grain northern timber to your twisty product .. just like real life 'are you prepared to criticize the Union for fighting it? ' It's a What If i've never considered .... first reaction, no, because it was an internal dispute, nobody's business but your own ... because by that time the stolen land on which that 'union' was situated had been 'yours' for some time .. i would be eager, on the other hand, to criticise the theft of Tejas by US slavers, and then of fully half of México by US federal guvmint, around two decades previous .... the war between the states does provide clues to the US psyche as it pertains to the extermination of their fellow beings though, perhaps ... have you seen Bowling For Columbine yet? ... if you haven't, i won't spoil the ending for you, what Moses does with the red sea of blood this time Article on Hussein - theatlantic.com