"When Dogs Run Free" <wdrf@woof.org> wrote in message
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> In article <in2ml3dosmbg9u70bqif3imiupie50tjum@4ax.com>, Alan Moore at
> alan.s.moore@comcast.net says...
>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:58:36 -0800 (PST), Rob Kleinschmidt
>> <Rkleinsch1216128@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Dec 6, 7:04 pm, Alan Moore <alan.s.mo...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:18:02 GMT, When Dogs Run Free <w...@woof.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >> >Show us their papers. Why all the Indian wars, then? Why don't Native
>> >> >Americans celebrate Thanksgiving?
>> >>
>> >> Actually, the Pilgrims got along fairly well with the locals.
>> >
>> >Offhand, I'd say the current generation of immigrants
>> >does way better than the Pilgrims ever thought of doing.
>> >And they don't even bring fatal epidemics with them either.
>>
>> Hmm. Around here, we have some pretty serious diseases brought in from
>> other parts of the world in recent times. West Nile Encephelitis, for
>> example. Tuberculosis and Hepatitis-B, in my youth were extremely rare
>> in this area, but are now serious threats.
>> >
>> >I bumped into a great quote last night where a member
>> >of the Massacusets bay colony was speculating that
>> >maybe smallpox was the method by which an ever
>> >kind and provident deity was making space for the
>> >colonists in the new world.
>>
>> Hmm, kind of reminds me of Leibniz' "Logical Positivism."
>> >
>> >> >As for the actual Pilgrims...
>> >>
>> >> >"With the charter for the Plymouth Council for New England incomplete
>> >> >by the time the colonists departed England, they arrived without a
>> >> >patent."
>> >>
>> >> >In other words, illegally, according to the laws of England.
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, but why would England's law apply over here?
>> >
>> >So they weren't actually illegal, just sort of undocumented ?
>>
>> I believe they brought all the _required_ documentation with them.
>>
>> Al Moore
>> DoD 734
>>
>
> Required by whom?
Why, themselves, of course.
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