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To: Ilaine who wrote (85023)	12/23/2011 2:44:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218624

That's how Islamic Jihad worked so well and spread so far < 212 Edict of Caracalla granted Roman citizenship to all free men in the Roman empire. > Telling the target population "Abandon your enslaving royal masters and join us in Islamic freedom and jihad" is a winning strategy. People have nothing to lose but their serfdom and have not so much to pay their new rulers. The British Empire worked like that too, but specifically gave British Subject freedom, common law, human rights and all that good stuff. It was far better than being a Maori being killed and eaten by the marauding Ngapuhi tribes from the north. Around the world, British freedom was fantastic by comparison. Across African, I dare say swarms of people would go back to being British Subjects if they could, instead of working for Mugabe, Idi Amin and the other horror stories of life. Obama's Kenya is another example. He despises the British but he would be just another tribal gangster in Kenya if Great Britain and the British Empire had not opened the door for him. Many ingrates bit the hand that freed them. Ghandi, TJ's grandfather, Amin, Mugabe ... it wasn't enough for them to work within the British Commonwealth. They wanted total power for themselves. The USA gained independence and continued slavery. Slaves would have been freed by the British. Not by the USA until much later, after a civil war. Mqurice