tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post2830593624745896801..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: Straight Flush: Plumbing.Daghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-36178797666592763212007-11-17T10:18:00.000-08:002007-11-17T10:18:00.000-08:00Auntie, I do think we are related.Your allusion to...Auntie, I do think we are related.<BR/><BR/>Your allusion to Pax Romana is clearly seen in practice even today when one looks at Hadrian's Wall, the Roman shrug that kept the Scots out of the Empire, that kept them in "freedom" and savagery, to no great benefit to the Scots. Stand on the wall, look south to England and its high prosperity and then turn to the north and feel dismay as one sees the poverty even today that came from lack of a good start in an ordered and disciplined culture imposed by force. where the Romans went and imposed order, order remained in the soil to rise again went the Romans left the land to the natives. England is prosperous. <BR/><BR/>To see the result of freedom in the world, those independent and unsullied by the colonial experience, turn then to Haiti, the first nation in the West given its independence from the French, that same Haiti that is the poorest and one of the most violent and backward places in the world. Haiti shares an island with fellows like themselves, but not freed of colonialism until a much later date. "The Dominican Republic is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas...." More colonialism, more benefit. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough: "Spanish lieutenant governor José Núñez de Cáceres declared the colony's independence as the state of Spanish Haiti (Haití Español) on November 30, 1821, requesting admission to the Republic of Gran Colombia, but Haitian forces, led by Jean-Pierre Boyer, unified the entire island, ending 300 years of colonial domination and slavery just nine weeks later." wikipedia, "dominican republic."<BR/><BR/>Colonialism at its best and most effective? Look to the southern states of America, to Arkansas, for example, to Americans who are more American than most other Americans to this day! Western colonialism is good, and Roman/British colonialism the best. <BR/><BR/>The proof? Try the plumbing in Haiti. Try the plumbing in America. The proof is in the pudding.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-65376945954736399462007-11-17T09:40:00.000-08:002007-11-17T09:40:00.000-08:00I s'ppose some soul already done wrote up a book o...I s'ppose some soul already done wrote up a book on how nad why colonialism and imperialism was the best thang that eve'r happened to a nation--the comin' of western genius. <BR/><BR/>'Course such a book would be most un-PC nowdays. Whar' we mayhap have failed is in grantin' independence too soon to most of them chillen of colonialism. Sigh....<BR/><BR/>truth is, lots of places benefited from Roman rule--because it cut down on chaos and made orderly trade possible.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.com