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  1. 04-19-2012, 01:58 #26
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    Default Re: Judging History (branch off from election thread)

    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
    Yes, but you still had the Apartied.
    Doesn't matter.


    Yes, well people pelting soldiers with snowballs and rocks does put a pall on things.

    Five men is not a massacre.
    Life's cheap when it's not your people that are getting killed.


    It was basically the same interpretation as the King of England had - but you elect your Kings.
    And not for life. And we hold them accountable to the people.

    OK, you can have another WTF LOL for that one - especially since you've spent the last few pages defending a man's right to bloody insurrection in the cause of Freedom. Crazy Horse's people were facing cultural annihalation at best.
    He lost though. We couldn't coexist in peace, someone had to go.


    Not the point, is it?
    Then why bring up a hypothetical situation?
    Last edited by rvg; 04-19-2012 at 02:06.
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