> On Feb 1, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, the just took it. But why not just buy it from the people? Why use mill power when you could use economic and free choice power?

Because military power is ‘free’, in that it must be maintained regardless; also colonies were not taken with the promise of ‘fixing them up’ or ‘giving them cash’.

Colonies are established for three reasons:
1) cheap raw materials for the home country,
2) someplace to send restive, ambitious young nobles or other undesirables,
3) provide a captive market for the home country’s manufactured goods or goods taken from other colonies.

Witness the contretemps regarding tea in Boston, in 1771. England increased import duties on tea on the North American colonies in order to prop up revenues from other English colonies, namely the East India Company, which was a profit stream for wealthy nobles in England.

Follow the money, as always, follow the money.

As again, witness the contretemps regarding tea in Boston, in 1771, which was partly instigated by people with interests in the tea smuggling trade.

Imperialism doesn’t happen because the imperialists want to better the poor countries/planets….

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
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