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To: elmatador who wrote (53097)	8/4/2009 1:56:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218258

ElM, you are ignorant of history. When the British Empire put up the "Closed" sign, they didn't dig up the railway lines in India and take them back to England. They are still there. When the Suez Canal was stolen by the local yokels, they didn't go and get it and put it under the English Channel as the Chunnel. When the Arabs and Iranians nationalized oil assets, with nominal if any payment, there was no cash returned to HQ. When my grandfather left China, he left TJ's grandfather to treat with the Japanese. Of course the colonials were interested in what they were leaving behind, but they were unable to take much with them - other than movable things. Not long ago, Prince Charles officiated at the handover of Hong Kong. He took the flag with him and not much else. Perhaps China gave him a key to the city as a friendly gesture but probably not even that. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (53097)	8/4/2009 2:23:58 AM
From: Gib Bogle	Respond to of 218258

I don't know why you focus so much on Anglos, Elmat. The experience of the Peruvians with the Spanish colonialists, for example, puts Anglo looting in the shade. It is well-documented that their lust for gold and silver was so great that they scoured the countryside for workers who would be captured and sent down the mines never to emerge - they were worked until they died, to be replaced by new slave workers. The profit motive was unrestrained by socialist nonsense in those days.