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6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sensible approach to the situation. You can get into all sorts of trouble if you touched any of the boys.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 0 replies · +1 points

How far do you take this? Yes Hitler and the Nazis operated on an industrial scale to eliminate Jews. Is it the numbers that amplify the guilt? Anti-semitism and persecution/elimination of Jews was prevalent in Christendom for two Millennia.

Ethnic Cleansing was the norm following wars and revolutions - not just of Jews. Following on the dreaded Inquisition to eradicate Islam and anti-Papist plots from Europe, opening up of the New World resulted in wholesale massacres of the Natives in the Americas, also death through starvation, neglect and deliberate introduction of diseases. Australian Aborigines were hunted for sport, and their youngsters separated from parents to be brought up as God-fearing Christians in Institutions.

Whilst we can debate Poland's role in the the Holocaust and gassing of Jews, Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses in the Death Camps, are we really serious not not examining the culpability of our Glorious Empire Builders in eliminating populations elsewhere on earth? Incidentally Genocides in Rwanda or Cambodia run close and should not be forgotten. Man's inhumanity exists just below the surface and boils over now and then regardless of our race, religion or culture.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 1 reply · +1 points

Has our Boris done anything useful when he visited Burma recently apart from asking Ang San SuChi to be extra nice to the Rohingyas which she will ignore.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 2 replies · +1 points

I bet he/she writes better English than your Polish.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gary Kent: Two cheers ... · 0 replies · +1 points

As long as you can defend your possession. Israelis are able to defend their occupied lands - that settles it until the Palestinians grow strong and are able to get the Israelis out. There is no right and wrong in this matter.

Disparate Groups occupied present day Texas, New Mexico and California in early 19th century and the Union Government helped the settlers to drive the then legitimate government of Mexico out beyond the Rio Grande - subsequently these territories were absorbed into the Union.

The Mexicans are still trying go get back into their lost lands and Trump wants to build a wall across present day US/Mexico border to keep them out. Who is the rightful owner of present day California, New Mexico/Arizona and Texas?

On a similar vein much of modern day Nation States did not exist before WW2 and de-colonisation. Borders were fixed arbitrarily by the departing colonial powers - many such borders now giving rise to conflicts. Is there any right and wrong borders say of Iraq, Syria, Palestine/Israel, even closer home between Germany, Poland, Czech republic, hungary, Yugoslavia, etc? Some of the Baltic States were part of the old Hanseatic League - German settlements - and even Germany's borders came about following two world wars.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 4 replies · +1 points

Britain trades with many countries that don't subscribe to our norms of behaviour. We associate with countries such as Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon and Indonesia where minorities are persecuted or ethnically cleansed. Many others in Asia, Africa and Latin America have suspect regimes but we appear to have dealings with them.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 1 reply · +1 points

Check with someone familiar with Polish Law. This has been a problem across Europe.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 0 replies · +1 points

Judicial and other systems result from history.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Poland's new Holocaust... · 4 replies · +1 points

picking nits?

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The withdrawal of publ... · 0 replies · +1 points

You are correct I consider all religions superstitions. On the second point - you have every right to practise charity any way you like. Nobody is stopping you.

Talking about the major World-Religions - the Bible states - you will recognize the tree by its fruit - look up World history to recognize the bitter fruit all World religions have brought all through history and the story continues today.

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