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To: longnshort who wrote (569900)	6/3/2010 12:31:01 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1583883

That's one way of looking at it. People forget that the indians took it from someone before them and so on. Possession is 9/10ths of the law?

To: longnshort who wrote (569900)	6/3/2010 12:41:43 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583883

I don't have a solid idea about it but for the record, Our president gave ex-slaves forty acres and a mule, just to be nice after a bloody civil war between the North and South, which had nothing to do with property ownership or possession. The property was owned by Southerners who had legal claims to it, after they'd forcibly removed the Cherokee who had ancestral and legal claims and in many cases were living no differently than the European Americans who became owners of it ... before it was given to the ex-slaves, who didn't ultimately get to keep it as the carpet bagging Yankees worked their magic across the region. This was all part of the New World civilized way of determining possession... but I don't claim to get it.