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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1108)	11/23/2004 11:50:32 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1968

Mass murder did indeed become the policy of the German state, something very unlike "the Bible Belt". Your Frontier was conquered through the slaughtering of Indians... Hitler's Frontier was the so-called Lebensraum... The American expansion in to the frontier did include wars against Indians, and they also died from disease but overall it wasn't quite the naked act of unprovoked aggression that World War II was. But assume for a second that it was, there was no equivalent of the Nazi death camps. Yes there where reservations and even concentration camps for Indians but they where not of the same scale or nature. One might reasonably condemn a country for waging war to acquire land, but deliberately slaughtering of groups of people, not in the heat of battle, or in a small scale fit of anger and retribution, but in a systematic planned way in massive numbers is something entirely different. In any case by the time that Hitler was in power in Germany the Bible Belt wasn't a place of conquest against the Indians. Tim