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  • Re: Canadian Court: "Indigenous" People Have a Claim on the Homes of Ca

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sun May 24 09:57:57 2026
    Subject: Re: Canadian Court: "Indigenous" People Have a Claim on the Homes of Canadian Citizens

    On Tue, 19 May 2026 01:09:35 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    Your government should tell them to just be happy with what they have.

    The catch of course is to put that in a way that would satisfy the
    appeal courts. (Note that 'your government' refers to the provincial
    government of British Columbia though it is awaiting hearing at the
    Supreme Court of Canada - which is our equivalent of the SCOTUS)

    The Lakota Sioux descended out of the Black Hills and massacred the Kiowa, the >Ponca, and the Pawnee without mercy. The Sioux were, in turn, driven from >their claimed lands by the Chippewa. And don't even get me started with the >atrocities committed by the Apache and the Comanche or we'll be here all day.

    The proposition-- pushed by anti-white leftists-- that these were peaceable >nomads living harmoniously off the land before the white man came is the most >fanciful legend of them all. They were slaughtering each other for hundreds of >moons before the first white man stepped foot in North America.

    Clearly that's not true - but no question the white man upgraded their
    weapons (notably horses and firearms) to make their warfare more
    brutal than pre-contact.

    One tribe conquered another, lusting for their game and their land, just as >they were finally conquered by the white man for no less noble a cause.

    Which is to say not very noble at all - and regretably our courts seem
    to think that the evilness of the white man outdoes that of native
    tribes.

    The very idea that multiple tribes can claim the same piece of real
    estate and EACH demand and get payment from thee and me is
    preposterous.

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sun May 24 12:19:32 2026
    Subject: Re: Canadian Court: "Indigenous" People Have a Claim on the Homes of Canadian Citizens

    On Mon, 18 May 2026 23:16:04 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    One tribe conquered another, lusting for their game and their land, just as >> they were finally conquered by the white man for no less noble a cause.

    ('Less' is 'more'.)

    "Nature, red in tooth and claw." -Alfred Lord Tennyson

    Alas too true on Tennyson.

    Adam has clearly been doing some reading and frankly if the Canadian
    Supreme Court WERE to go into darkness by upholding the provincial
    supreme court, it would almost certainly provoke a constitutional
    crisis where one or more provinces would see a strong separatist
    movement (apart from the not so strong one in Quebec)

    At best they would probably order a fixed term stay of the problematic
    law to give the provincial government time to amend it - though the
    tribes are claiming (likely true given the government who passed this
    damned piece of legislation) that they were very much part of the
    legislative drafting process in the first place.

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