issuevoter wrote on Feb 20
th, 2021 at 6:51am:
Valkie wrote on Feb 20
th, 2021 at 6:43am:
And the abbos have the hide to say the whites that rescued them from their primitive lifestyles were bad.
Just goes to show.
Abbos have no idea
While I get your drift, and I know that native Australians are being spoonfed a fantasy of their past, it must be said that many frontier settlers were prepared to shoot the natives on sight,.....
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IMAGE.....
A pictorial proclamation issued by the Colonial British Government in Tasmania espousing equality and peaceful relations between Indigenous people and settlers.
The intent, was
to PUBLICLY PROCLAIM that the British authorities in the colony stood for a system of equal justice,
and of ONE LAW, for all [applying to everyone].
It didn't work out that way ?Maybe it didn't.
But
the INTENT of the British authorities, is writ large, for all to see.
WWW search....
Gov Davey's proclamation Quote:The pictogram scenes that depict Aborigines, British military and settlers were based on drawings by surveyor and artist George Frankland, who suggested in a letter to Governor Arthur that they be tied to trees in remote areas of the island.[8][9]
The proclamation boards were designed to communicate to the Indigenous peoples of Van Diemen's Land that all people, black and white, would be treated equally under the British colonists’ law......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_Davey's_Proclamation
Yadda said....
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1572309651/3#3We do not live a perfect world.
We do not live under a flawless system of government [then or now].
But at least THERE WERE some people who openly showed their INTENT, was an attempt at being fair to 'them' and us.
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YADDA HOLDS UP A MIRROR [SHINES A LIGHT], ON HOW WE ONCE WERE.....------ >
If You Live in Freedom, Thank the British Empire
05 min
https://youtu.be/sSnJSUU_7q0
Today, imo, Western nations are full of crooks, criminals, thieves and self-serving, pleasure loving cowards.
From the top of our societies, to the very bottom.
Q.So what went so wrong, in our societies ?
The Progressives, tell us they are making our societies better and better.
But look around us, that is a lie.