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Originally posted by chillmeistergen
http://britishreparations.org/ this website reckons that Britain owes loadsa other countries 31 trillion quid. Thing I find the most funny is that they're going to show the petition to the queen as if the country is run by the monarchy ha. What do you lot think about this?

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Originally posted by chillmeistergen
http://britishreparations.org/ this website reckons that Britain owes loadsa other countries 31 trillion quid. Thing I find the most funny is that they're going to show the petition to the queen as if the country is run by the monarchy ha. What do you lot think about this?

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British Empire plundered natural resources and enslaved native peoples then left without building the stable infrastructure or governments necessary for self-sufficiency.

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The terrorist threat has its roots in British mismanagement of the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia.

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Bad Inventions. bad hygiene, Black Plague

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How did you come up with the £31 trillion figure?

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we came up with £31 trillion as a starting point by adding up the following costs: First Iraq War: $71 billion, Second Iraq War: $282 billion, the Darfur genocide

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What exactly has Britain done that's so awful?

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Genocide: Modern Britain was founded through the systematic erasure of indigenous culture and language. The English rounded up natives, seized their property, and forced them to relinquish their heritage and take on British language and culture as their own. Anyone who dissented faced extermination. This practice began in Scotland, Wales and Ireland and soon spread all over the world, where the British Empire plundered natural resources and enslaved native peoples then left without building the stable infrastructure or governments necessary for self-sufficiency.

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The Industrial Revolution: Beginning in the 18th century, Britain began making our lives worse through the introduction of machines in the workplace. The health, safety, and wages of workers took a back seat to owners' greed for ever-higher output and profits. The skies above the city—first London, then the world—were filled with black smoke. Waters were poisoned with noxious chemicals. Under the careless watch Britain's elite, the Industrial Revolution got off to a horrible start, the consequences of which have continued to ring down through the centuries. The melting of the polar icecaps, the loss of countless plants and animal species, and the imperiled condition of the human race on a planet made poisonous by misapplied technology are all a consequence of British negligence and hunger to accumulate wealth at any cost.

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Global Misrule: The terrorist threat has its roots in British mismanagement of the Middle East, particularly Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Britain's imperialist past has so enraged Muslim extremists. Now America is deploying our sons, daughters, and tax dollars to clean up the mess that Britain made. The deaths caused by all the major wars of the 19th and early 20th century could have been prevented, or at least lessened, if the British hadn't waited until their backs were up against the wall before getting into the action. Most of the worst tyrants in power through the end of the 20th century were put there by the British, or came to power by filling the power vacuum the British Empire left behind.

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Bad Inventions: Machine guns, slums, prisons, child labor, bad hygiene, the Black Plague, concentration camps, you name it. If it hurts people, the British probably came up with it.

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Strangely enough, Britain has been very aggressive about making other countries pay for their historical misdeeds. Like a herd of raging soccer hooligans looting their rival's capital after a victory, they've extracted exorbitant reparations payments from Germany, France, and China, among others. Now it's their turn to pay.

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There are currently 11505 signatures for this petition

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Originally posted by Trickster
I liked this bit:

"Iraq and terrorism? Britain mapped the Middle East."

Is the guy trying to imply that by mapping the Middle East, Britain somehow managed to create terrorism? It was followed quickly by:

"Slavery? Sir Francis Drake and his uncle, John Hawkins, shipped them over and founded the Royal Navy to protect their trade routes and markets."

Apart from the fact that slavery was not an invention by the British, they go on to say that Drake founded the Royal Navy. Where's the evidence of that ever occurring?

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Originally posted by lord xyz
Exactly. Slavery has been around all over the world. The Vikings for one had slaves from Britain. Does this mean Denmark is now the responcible for Slavery? in fact, it was all over Europe!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade

http://www.regia.org/earner.htm

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Originally posted by Fishy
Egypt was first, let's blame the Egyptians... That way we can still blame all the worlds problems on Arabs, that would be kinda cool

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Originally posted by lord xyz
Why does everything always go back to Arabia. Just becasue they invented theism.

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Originally posted by Fishy
Because it's easy

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Originally posted by lord xyz
Haha. Well I don't see the point in the richest attacking the poorest.

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Originally posted by Fishy
It's easier then attacking other rich country's....